Question 4
passage “I declined to adopt the view that what was imperatively necessary for the Nation could not be done by the President unless he could find some specific authorization to do it. My belief was that it was not only his right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the Nation demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws.” - Theodore Roosevelt (1913)
“The true view of the Executive functions is, as I conceive it, that the President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power or justly implied and included within such express grant as proper and necessary to its exercise.” - William H. Taft (1916)

Q-Compare Roosevelt and Taft’s different perspectives on executive power. How do these two perspectives represent a shift in Presidential authority? Which perspective do you agree with more? Explain your answers.