The job description of the President of the United States

The President shall be Commander in Chief for the Army and the United States. He may require the opinion in writing of the principle officer in each of the Executive Departments. He may grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States except in cases of impeachment.

He shall have power by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to make treaties provided two thirds of the Senate concurs. And he shall nominate and appoint ambassadors, public ministers, judges of the Supreme Court and all the other officers of the United States. And he has the power to fill up vacancies that may arise in the Senate. He shall from time to time give Congress the State of the Union. He’ll receive ambassadors and public ministers. He shall take care that the laws of the United States should be faithful executed.

And there ends the job.

A lot of our current problems have arisen from the cult of the President. But it is actually, deliberately, a weak executive position. Everything he or she does is constrained and is based around advice and consent.

How did it get to the point where our President thinks he can withhold Federal funds from states if they don’t allow men in women’s bathrooms? How does that have anything to do with the President’s job description?

The further we depart from the rule book that our founding fathers created, the further we get away from the founders plan to constrain the growth of government and restrain the power of the President.

When you the read the job description of the President of the United States it is unrecognizable to what the job means today. We need to take control back.