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The President is the Commander in Chief and the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. The President can declare war or conclude a war, subject to the approval of parliament under the decision of the Council of the three Armed Forces Chief staffs, Military Secretary and President’s Officer. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, successfully preserved the Union during the American Civil War. One of the most important of all executive powers is the president's role as Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces.

Instructor What we'regoing to do in this video is talk about the powers of the President of the United States, and we're going to broadlydivide them into two categories. Formal powers are thosethat are explicitly listed in the United States Constitution. And we're also gonna talkabout informal powers a little bit in this video and a lot more depth into future videos. The formal powers are listed in Article II of the United States Constitution, and it starts in Section 1 where it says the executivePower shall be vested in a President of theUnited States of America. And this simple statement alone has a lot of implications.

As we will see, it is used as a justification for many of the informalpowers of the President. The President is the executive. They run the government. Congress can pass laws and set budgets. The judicial branch can interpret laws or declare them unconstitutional.

But the executive power isvested in the President. But the bulk of the powersare listed in Section 2 and Section 3. So let's read this together and let's see if we canclassify these different powers as executive, legislative, foreign policy or military, or judicial powers. So Section 2 of Article II starts off with the President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actualService of the United States. So this is clearly a military power. You have the Presidentof the United States being in charge of the nation's military.

It then goes on to say he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices. So this is clearly an executive power or an administrative power, where he can go to the head of any of the executivedepartments and say, hey, I need your opinion on something, potentially in writing. Then it goes on to say and he shall have Power tograin Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. So this is a judicial power. Grant reprieves and pardonsfor federal offenses.

Then we read, he shall have Power, by and with the Adviceand Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of theSenators present concur. So this power to make treaties is clearly a foreign policy power, although it does have tobe ratified by the Senate. And he shall nominate, and by and with the Adviceand Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officersof the United States, whose appointments are notherein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law. But the Congress may byLaw vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments. So all of these lines here talked about the President'spower of appointment, which is why I underlinedit in the executive or the administrative color, although it touches on appointments that affect these other powers. So, for example, the appointment of ambassadors is clearly going to haveforeign policy implications. And judges of the Supreme Court.

This could have hugejudicial implications. So I will underline that in blue, as well. It then goes on to say, and this is in relationto the appointments we just talked about, the President shall havePower to fill up all Vacancies that may happen duringthe Recess of the Senate. Because remember, it just talked about how the Senate has toconfirm appointments. But the President does have the power to fill up vacancies whilethe Senate is in recess, while they're not in session, by granting Commissions which shall expire at theEnd of their next Session. And then in Section 3, we read, he, the President, although it could be a she, shall from time to timegive to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to theirConsideration such Measures as he or she shall judgenecessary and expedient. He may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to suchTime as he shall think proper.

So these are all ways, these are all powersthat the President has in the legislative process. And then it goes back to foreign policy. He shall receive Ambassadors and other public ministers.

He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed and shall Commission all theOfficers of the United States. This statement, he shall take Care that theLaws be faithfully executed, in conjunction withwhat is sometimes known as the Vesting Clause, which is at the very beginningof Article II, Section 1, that simply states the executive Power shallbe vested in a President of the United States.

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These two clauses combined have been used to justify what we will see arecalled informal powers, which we will go into muchmore depth into future videos, especially the powerof the executive order. And so, in summary, if we wanna look at the executivepowers of the President. The power to take care thatlaws be faithfully executed.

Nominating officials with confirmation from the Senate. Request written opinions ofadministrative officials.

Fill administrativevacancies during recesses. Then you have the legislative powers. Present info on the State of the Union. Recommend legislation to Congress. Convene both houses onextraordinary occasions.

Adjourn Congress if Houseand Senate cannot agree. And can veto legislation, although Congress can overrulewith a two-thirds vote. And then you have the foreignpolicy and military powers, which include being the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. Making treaties, which have to be ratified by the Senate. Nominate ambassadors, receive ambassadors, and provide diplomaticrecognition to other governments. And then finally, the judicial powers thatwe saw in Article 2.

Reprieves and pardons for federal offenses and the power to nominate federal judges, including US Supreme Court judges. Now, as I touched on, these are the formal powers, but there's also what areknown as informal powers, and we'll talk more aboutthese in other videos. The President has a uniquerole in the federal government and in national discourse as a whole, and because of that, they have a lot of bargainingand persuasion power. Now, as we also touched on, we have an informal powerof executive orders, which is derived from the formal powers to take care that lawsbe faithfully executed and the fact that thepower of the executive is vested in the President. You also have thingscalled signing statements, which we'll do future videos on, which is when a lawgets passed by Congress, the President can issue a document known as a signing statement which interprets that law. And as you can imagine, that interpretation of the law could be very, very influential.

And then you also haveexecutive agreements. These are agreementswith foreign governments that do not have to beratified by the US Senate. So they're not formal treaties, but they can be agreementswith governments.

So I will leave you there. As you can see, the President has manytools at their disposal to influence the policy-making process.

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In future videos, we willtalk more about these, especially the informal powers.