Against the background of the degradation of the political elites who are supporters of the dying hegemony, nowadays, there is the growing disillusionment between the average Americans about today's domestic and foreign policy and liberal values in general. The protest of American society and dissatisfaction with the course of globalist elites has reached a qualitatively new level. The epitome of this phenomenon is a figure of Donald Trump - US presidential candidate, who showed excellent results in the course of the race. All in all, each American president has used a system of power in order to govern the country.
Characteristic features of the US political system are a clear division of political power between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, the presidential form of government, the important role of the two-party political system (Phillips 56), as well as the activist and democratic political culture. The US has become the first country in the world where there was a president, who united in one person the head of state and government. The first US president George Washington was not just an outstanding politician, but also the father of the nation and its hero at the same time. In order to strengthen the presidential power the adoption of the US Constitution - the basic law of the country was of the great significance. The analysis of the content of the Constitution of the United States reveals the following democratic principles, defining the political system: the rule of the people's power, guarantee for human rights and freedoms, law supremacy, separation of powers, costs and balances, federalism, the constitutionality of the law courts and their implementation. The uniqueness of the presidential power lays in the fact that it simultaneously acts as the highest state and executive power (McCann 15). This status gives the president an unprecedented power. This explains why the United States political history is divided into periods of the government of each president.
A clear distribution of power in the US is of a great importance. This system is characterized by the presence of checks and balances that give each branch the right and ability to control the actions of other authorities and provide them a direct impact. For example, Congress can control the actions of the president through the budget, the approval of which is the exclusive privilege of the legislature. The President, in turn, can hold the congress, using the right of veto enacted by Congress. The Supreme Court, in turn, has the authority to recognize laws passed by Congress and approved by the president unconstitutional.
The legislative process in the United States includes not only the laws adopted by the Parliament, but also the publication of the decrees of the executive authority, those having the force of law ("How Powerful Is The American President?"). The US President has the right to issue decrees that are called executive orders. US President constantly uses this authority, but it is mainly used by the federal government. The decrees, proclamations and other executive acts issued by the president, have the force of law. They are not subject to be repealed by the Congress, but can be revoked by the US Supreme Court, if it deems these facts to be not relevant the US Constitution. In the US, the head of state and the government has no right to dissolve Congress, which corresponds to the inner logic of the American presidential model.
The degree of success of the president's political program and its legislative initiatives is in direct proportion to the extent of its interaction with the supreme legislative body. The main means of communication between the president and parliament is the presidential message, which is provided by the Constitution. The executive power is executed by the President of the United States. The president is unable to personally lead a huge bureaucratic apparatus of government, and he carries out the overall control and delegate some of his powers to various officials. Presidential republic in the United States provides a strong presidential power together with the decentralization of powers of legislative and executive bodies of the American Federation. State governments have greater powers and independence from the center, although they must comply with the federal constitution and federal laws. In the US, only the president appoints the members of the Supreme Court and other federal judges. All the presidential appointments must be approved by the Senate of the US Congress. At the same time the positions in the US Supreme Court are held for life (Crenson & Ginsberg 59). This is an important constitutional guarantee of their independence from the president and Congress. The president has no right to dismiss any member of the Supreme Court or any of the federal judges. At the same time, the President shall take care that the laws are faithfully executed, and the president delegates these powers to the Minister of Justice of the United States, who has to ensure the steady implementation of laws.
Works cited
Crenson, Matthew A., and Benjamin Ginsberg. Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced. New York: Norton, 2007. Print.
"How Powerful Is The American President?". The Week UK. N.p., 2016. Web. 2 July 2016.
McCann, Sean. A Pinnacle Of Feeling. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. Print.
Phillips, Kevin. American Dynasty. New York: Viking, 2004. Print.
