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Endows the chief executive with extraordinary authority. As chief executive, the President executes (enforces, administers, carries out) the provisions of federal law. The power to do so rests on two brief constitutional provisions. The first of them is the oath of office sworn by the President the day he or she takes office.

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Executive Orders and Executive Privilege 

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Executive Orders and Executive Privilege 

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- Executive orders: directives, rules, or regulations that have the effect of law. The power to issue these orders, the ordinance power, arises from two sources: the Constitution and acts of Congress.
-Executive Privilege: the nation's chief executives have at times insisted that the Constitution gives the President the inherent power to refuse to disclose certain information to congress or to the federal courts.

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- Powers of Appointment: ambassadors and other diplomats, cabinet members and their top aides, the heads of independent agencies, all federal judges, U.S. marshals, and attorneys and all officers in the armed forces.
-Powers of Removal: is the other side of the appointment coin, and is as important to presidential success as is the power to appoint.

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A reprieve is the postponement of the execution of a sentence. A pardon is legal forgiveness of a crime. The President's power to grant reprieves and pardons is absolute, expect in cases of impeachment, where they may never be granted. These powers of clemency may be used only in cases involving federal offenses.

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The Constitution gives the President certain legislative powers. They are in Madison's phrase, the constitutional means that make it possible for the President to check the actions of Congress.

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The Constituion presents the President with four options once a measure has been approved by Congress. First he or shy may sign the bill, making it law. Or the President can veto the bill, and the measure must then be returned to Congress. Congress can then override that veto, by a two thirds vote in each of its tow chambers, but it seldom does.