Franklin redefined the concept of executive activism, and has held the role of leading and administering the laws, but to also have a "vision for the country, an agenda to implement, a program to present to Congress, who will hopefully legislate such an initiative into effect with the president providing guidance, moral, and ideological inspiration
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr. argues that the framers of the Constitution unconsciously laid the foundation for today's "presidency on steroids" (pg. 1) by granting the chief executive a broad mandate to direct warfare and to conduct foreign policy. Schlesinger also believes that the threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union after World War II, "led to congress surrendering much of its oversight of military and diplomatic matters" (pg. 1). He also believes that congress should be the one making the final call on decisions regarding wars. Schlesinger states that leading to the Korean War was the first major conflict that was conducted with no congressional declaration of war. .
Congress believes that a king shouldn't rule over the United States. A president should have a say, and should have power as well, but that over all, the Congress should be the most powerful. Most of the framers worried that the office could transform into a center of authoritarian rule. Libertarian Gene Healy believed that the county would have been better off if the government had done nothing especially on issues such as "African American voting rights, pollution, and poverty. In the book it states that The Congress failed in numerous cases because of the way it was formed and structured. The founders never dreamed that Congress would surrender its exclusive entitlement to declare war. Congress should always get the last say, is what The Framers of the Constitution believed. Stated in the Articles of Confederation, the writers believed that the excess power of the British monarch "represented a fatal flaw" (pg.
