Executive Power

. . . . [The President] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed . . . .

Article II, § 3


U.S. v. Chicago, M., St. P. & P. R. Co., 282 U.S. 311, 324 (1931).

Congress "cannot delegate any part of its legislative power except under the limitation of a prescribed standard"


Passing Legislation

    Art. I, § 7, cl. 2,3.


Executive Power

The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.

Article II, § 1


Art. I, § 7, cl. 2

Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it becomes a Law, be presented to the President of the United States. If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it . . . . If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within Ten days, . . . the Same shall be a Law. . . .


Appointments Clause

[The President] . . . shall appoint . . . all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, . . . but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers . . . in the President alone, to the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments Art. II, § 2, cl. 2


Article III

The Judicial Power shall extend to all Cases . . . arising under the Constitution, the Laws of the United States . . . to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party . . . . (Section 2)


Incompatibility Clause

[N]o Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.

Article I, § 6