The founders decided that such limitation would create an inordinate amount of power in the Congress. The founders ultimately tried to give each branch --- executive and legislative --- enough power that each would be able to effectively perform its functions, but not so much power that one or the other could usurp the other's power and take over the nation.
It is clear that many disputes, legal, political, ethical, and otherwise, have arisen in the past and will continue to arise with respect to the specifics of the powers of the President, often in relationship to the powers of the Congress. The Constitution, as Truman points out, simply did not spell out in total clarity these various powers: "The presidency of the United states is at once the most important and the most complex position in the governmental mechanism. Embodying the national myths and pervaded with tradition, yet imperfectly defined by law and peculiarly reflective of the personality of the incumbent, the presidency defies precise characterization. It is more than the office described i
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