“The executive power shall be vested in the president of the United States of America,” the first clause of the first section of Article II of the Constitution dictates. Not a fragment of the executive power; not most of the executive power; not the executive power besides the portions which Congress sees fit to place elsewhere. Nor did the Constitution enumerate certain discrete executive powers that attach to the Presidency, as it enumerates the limited and defined legislative powers that Congress wields. “The executive power,” the compact says — all of it, in its entirety, without reservation.
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