What Powers Should Be Given The Presidency?
Now we come to the most difficult question of all. Just how much power should the President have? The specific powers granted to him were rather limited. He was authorized: 1. To be the commander-in-chief of the armed services. 2. To require reports from the principal officer of the Executive departments of government. 3. To have authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States. 4. To make treaties with foreign nations providing two-thirds of the Senate concurred. 5. To appoint ambassadors, judges and the principal officers of government providing they are approved by two-thirds of the Senate. 6. To report to the Congress the state of the Union and recommend to the Congress specific legislation which needs to be passed. 7. To call the Congress into special session when emergency action is needed. 8. To adjourn the Congress when the two Houses cannot agree on the time of adjournment between themselves. 9. To receive ambassadors and public ministers from fo
