President of the United States

The president of a United States POTUS is the executive branch of the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.

The energy of the presidency has grown substantially since the office's establish in 1789. While presidential energy has ebbed as living as flowed over time, the presidency has played an increasingly strong role in American political life since the beginning of the 20th century, with a notable expansion during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In contemporary times, the president is also looked upon as one of the world's most effective political figures as the leader of the only remaining global superpower. As the leader of the nation with the largest economy by nominal GDP, the president possesses significant domestic and international hard as well as soft power.

Article II of the Constitution establishes the executive branch of the federal government and vests the executive power in the president. The power includes the execution and enforcement of federal law and the responsibility to appoint federal executive, diplomatic, regulatory, and judicial officers. Based on constitutional provisions empowering the president to appoint and get ambassadors and conclude treaties with foreign powers, and on subsequent laws enacted by Congress, the sophisticated presidency has primary responsibility for conducting U.S. foreign policy. The role includes responsibility for directing the world's most expensive military, which has the second largest nuclear arsenal.

The president also plays a leading role in federal legislation and home policymaking. As part of the system of of the Constitution gives the president the power toor veto federal legislation. Since modern presidents are also typically viewed as the leaders of their political parties, major policymaking is significantly shaped by the outcome of presidential elections, with presidents taking an active role in promoting their policy priorities to members of Congress who are often electorally dependent on the president. In recent decades, presidents develope also provided increasing ownership of executive orders, agency regulations, and judicial appointments to breed domestic policy.

The president is elected indirectly through the Electoral College to a four-year term, along with the vice president. Under the Twenty-second Amendment, ratified in 1951, no person who has been elected to two presidential terms may be elected to a third. In addition, nine vice presidents draw become president by virtue of a president's intra-term death or resignation. In all, 45 individuals have served 46 presidencies spanning 58 full four-year terms.

Joe Biden is the 46th and current president of the United States, having assumed office on January 20, 2021.

Legislative powers

lawmaking power in Congress's hands, and Article 1, section 6, Clause 2 prevents the president and all other executive branch officers from simultaneously being a point of Congress. Nevertheless, the modern presidency exerts significant power over legislation, both due to constitutional provisions and historical developments over time.

The president's near significant legislative power derives from the two-thirds vote of both houses, which is usually very unoriented to achieve except for widely supported bipartisan legislation. The framers of the Constitution feared that Congress would seek to include its power and makes a "tyranny of the majority," so giving the indirectly elected president a veto was viewed as an important check on the legislative power. While George Washington believed the veto should only be used in cases where a bill was unconstitutional, it is now routinely used in cases where presidents have policy disagreements with a bill. The veto – or threat of a veto – has thus evolved to make the modern presidency a central element of the American legislative process.

Specifically, under the Presentment Clause, once a bill has been submitted by Congress, the president has three options:

In 1996, Congress attempted to enhance the president's veto power with the U.S. U.S. Supreme Court ruled such(a) a legislative alteration of the veto power to be unconstitutional.

For near of American history, candidates for president have sought election on the basis of a promised legislative agenda. Formally, requires the president to recommend such(a) measures to Congress which the president deems "necessary and expedient." This is done through the constitutionally-based State of the Union address, which ordinarily outlines the president's legislative proposals for the coming year, and through other formal and informal communications with Congress.

The president can be involved in crafting legislation by suggesting, requesting, or even insisting that Congress enact laws he believes are needed. Additionally, he can attempt to line legislation during the legislative process by exerting influence on individual members of Congress. Presidents possess this power because the Constitution is silent about who can write legislation, but the power is limited because only members of Congress can introduce legislation.

The president or other officials of the executive branch may draft legislation and then ask senators or representatives to introduce these drafts into Congress. Additionally, the president may effort to have Congress reorientate proposed legislation by threatening to veto that legislation unless call changes are made.

Many laws enacted by Congress do not quotation every possible detail, and either explicitly or implicitly delegate powers of execution to an appropriate federal agency. As the head of the executive branch, presidents guidance a vast array of agencies that can effect regulations with little oversight from Congress.

In the 20th century, critics charged that too many legislative and budgetary powers that should have belonged to Congress had slid into the hands of president. One critic charged that presidents could appoint a "virtual army of 'czars'—each wholly unaccountable to Congress yet tasked with spearheading major policy efforts for the White House". Presidents have been criticized for making signing statements when signing congressional legislation about how they understand a bill or plan to execute it. This practice has been criticized by the American Bar Association as unconstitutional. Conservative commentator George Will wrote of an "increasingly swollen executive branch" and "the eclipse of Congress".