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The President's Statutory Powers To Administer The Laws, Kevin M. Stack
The President's Statutory Powers To Administer The Laws, Kevin M. Stack
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
When does a statute grant powers to the President as opposed to other officials? Prominent theories of presidential power argue or assume that any statute granting authority to an executive officer also implicitly confers that authority upon the President. This Article challenges that statutory construction. It argues that the President has statutory authority to direct the administration of the laws only under statutes which grant to the President in name. Congress's enduring practice of granting power to executive officers subject to express conditions of presidential control supports a strong negative inference that the President has no directive authority when a …