How the Bush administration has abused executive power

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

4 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

03/05/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

Political science

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Summary :

Introduction.
The Republican Party.
The first thing that the Bush administration set out to do.
1. George Bush: Changing the nature of executive power.
2. Invoking the use of signing statements to change the nature of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005.
The context of the Bush presidency.
Bush's use of the 'administrative mechanisms.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

Since the United States Constitution was written, there has been a constant tug-of-war for power between the three branches of government: the executive branch, the judicial branch, and the legislative branch. In this time, the executive has been able to acquire many powers which include being Commander in Chief of the Army, the power to grant executive orders and signing statements. All of these branches work with, and against each other by navigating through a system of checks and balances which is in place to ensure that no one branch of government gets too powerful. This allows each branch to balance each other out, in theory, based on the will of the electorate. These checks and balances include procedural rules that let the branches control each others power, for example the executive's (President's) ability to veto a bill from Congress, or Congress' ability to change the composition and jurisdiction of the federal courts.