Many people see the President of the United States as the most powerful man in the world. However, is the president too powerful? Check and balances were put in the Constitution to make sure each branch in the government checks each other out so the three branches do not become too powerful. Some examples of the powers Congress have over the president is overriding a president’s veto, impeaching a president, and rejecting treaties a president negotiated. The judiciary branch also has powers over the government by declaring actions of the president unconstitutional, which would therefore make his actions void. With the checks and balances in effect, the president should not have the ability to become too powerful. Although, past presidents have ignored the Checks and Balances listed in the Constitution.…show more content… Roosevelt was also known to be a great and popular president. The New Deal Roosevelt enacted helped the federal government grow rapidly. Because of this, modern presidents gained new powers to regulate the government. The larger government also resulted in larger agencies and a deeper bureaucracy that the president can use to develop policy. Roosevelt also sent the Executive Reorganization Act to Congress in January 1937 to improve the administrative and management capacity of the president, and established the President’s Committee on Administrative Management which proposed new reforms such as expanding the president’s staff, moving the Bureau of the Budget from the Treasury Department to the White House, and establishing a powerful planning agency in the executive branch. Not only would all of this make the executive branch a lot more powerful, but would have also diminished a lot of congressional control. Of course, there was a huge amount of congressional resistance, and the bill was revived in a weaker form in 1939. Although the bill was made significantly weaker, it still gave the president a lot more power and was a big step for future
