Scholarship on presidential power in the United States where we borrowed our current model reveals three broad theoretical approaches. The Taftian perspective of presidential power (named after the 27th President of the United States, William Taft) adopts a strictly constructionist view of presidential power. This view holds that the presidency is a limited or constrained office whose occupant is confined to the exercise of expressly granted constitutional authority. Indeed, the key hallmark of the 2010 constitution is presidential powers in an intricate system of checks and balances involving different branches of government as well as constitutional commissions. Most of the early presidents of the US followed this theory in how they exercised the power of the presidency.

Source: The Star June 08, 2016 03:22 UTC