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If the president of the United States of America violates the constitution, he will be tried and convicted. He is therefore subject to impeachment by the Senate whether he is engaged in fraud, crime(s), or any other gross wrongdoing that leads to his dismissal from office. The president, as the governor, is subject to the above investigation and impeachment. Furthermore, the president has the authority and power to return or not return a bill that may have passed through all congressional branches to be reconsidered and replaced before becoming law. Unlike the King of the United Kingdom, who cannot be tried because he is not responsible to any constitutional tribunal. The Britain King also has no absolute positive upon the two acts of parliament (NORTON, p.256). This means that he has no use of his power for some time which does not change its existence.

The President's Authority and Powers

The President of the United States of America is also the chief commander of all the military including the air force, army, and navy of the United States and any other disciplined force of the many States when they are called to serve the United States of America. He also has the authority over reprieves or repeats for any law break against the United States of America unless in impeachment cases. He is also responsible for the recommendation or consideration of such measures in the Congress to convene extraordinary occasions of any or both houses of the legislature. In case of disagreements between the two houses in an argument of the time of adjournment, he is responsible for adjourning as takes time to properly think about taking laws faithfully to partake all commissioners of the United States of America (Burke, p.282). All these responsibilities and powers of the president of United States of America resemble those of the Great Britain King and the governor of the New York state with differences that the president is only a 'visitor commander' of some part of the militia of the nation. Another difference is that the New York governor and the Britain King always have complete authority over the army within their many dockets. This, therefore, means that president of the United States of America is limited or inferior in power than the monarch or governor.

Power to Make Signatories and Conduct Foreign Transactions

The US president with advice and consent seventy-five percent of the Senate has the power to make signatories present concur, unlike the Great Britain King who has the single independent stand of the nation in all the foreign agendas (Edelman, p.277). He, therefore, can make signatories of peace, business, and any other arrangement of such areas on his own on behalf of the Great Britain. However, it is intimated that all this authority that he has is not enough and therefore the agreements with other foreigners can be revised, and they stand to be ratified by the parliament.With this, it means that neither of the US president nor the Great Britain King has power over foreign transactions independently because as the president requires a two-thirds concur, the king's decision can also be revised by the parliament. They only differ in the sense that the king can make a decision instantly while the president cannot do that. He at first requires to involve the Senate and win seventy-five present.

Appointment Powers and Authorities

Even though it is more of a dignity and not the power of the president of US to receive nation representatives and public ministers, the Great Britain King is not necessarily authorized to do it. Also, the president with advice and consultation of the house of senate has authority to appoint representatives to other nations, public ministers or other officers of the US who are established by the law and not given in the constitution of US. The governor has no such authorizes at all. Also, the King of the Great Britain also has no authority to appoint or nominate judges, nominate ambassadors, or Judges of the Supreme Court (Burke, p. 321).

Work Cited


Burke, Edmund. Mr. Edmund Burke’s Speech to the Electors of Bristol: On His Being Declared by the Sheriffs, Duly Elected One of the Representatives in Parliament for That City on Thursday the 3Rd of November, 1774. J. Dodsley, 1775: 20–500


Edelman, Murray Jacob. The symbolic uses of politics. University of Illinois Press, 1985.


NORTON, E. “The Federalist: on the New Constitution.” (1976): 208-210.

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