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This is an 8 page paper that provides an overview of the relationship between the president and Congress. A historical overview from Washington to Clinton is provided. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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state and government. The office of the President and the amount of power that office flexed can possibly be blamed for the bad blood. It would seem that with each
President, the powers and parameters of the office are challenged and changed. With independence of the nation came the responsibility to govern that
nation effectively and fairly. The Framers of the Constitution understood this and took it to heart, providing the people with a way to make their voices heard through representatives
that would serve in Congress. Congress would serve as a mouthpiece for the American people; a voice that was once stifled by a monarch. In order to ensure that these
voices were heard, a system of checks and balances was implemented. These measures are used to make sure that everyone had an equal chance to be heard and that
compromise could be made possible. Of course, compromise often leads to stalemates and this is especially true when it comes to legislative procedures. Such stalemates between Congress and the
President do occur, though that was not the purpose of the system in place. No one could really say what the Framers of the Constitution had in mind when they
established the use of checks and balances in Congress but one can see that it was not to promote bickering and in-fighting: "as a surrogate, we consult the statements made
by various members of the constitutional convention, supplemented perhaps by statements made by members of ratification conventions, with the assumption that others shared these stated views" (Harvard 1996, p. 404).
What is known is that the relationship between the Presidency and the body of Congress has changed since the Framers time and this change has taken a rather dramatic form
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