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The Political Party Of The United States

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Group Report There have been several changes that have happened in the United States for the past 20 years. Firstly, the powers of presidents have been expanding at the expense of both branches, mostly in the Congress. The presidents have been using their executive orders to bypass the Congress from time to time. Follow by the interest group; the social issue such as abortion has been a big controversial topic among pro-life group and pro-choice group and the issue has been settled down by President Obama. Moreover, the media has many advantages as there are able to boost politician popularity vote, has no restriction, and one of the main sources is to generate campaign donation. The next area we are going to investigate is the political …show more content…

Mr. Bush also achieved many of his domestic policy goals; one of the goals is tax breaks that mostly benefited the richest Americans. Later on, President Obama has expended the executive power in a lot of ways, largely at the power of legislative branch, for worse and better. He has refused to execute the long-established U.S. immigration laws throughout his presidency. For example, there are a lot of captured illegal aliens, who were awaiting deportation. However, President Obama stopped these deportations and ordered the U.S. border patrol to release the illegal aliens in violation of law and without explanation. Moreover, President Obama 's unconstitutional attack on Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms. For instance, President Obama 's Executive Orders amending the Obama Care law to allow hospitals to investigate which patients own a weapon simply because they sought medical care. Furthermore, Obama 's unconstitutional attack on religious freedom and Christians by issuing a mandate that all health insurance plans must include coverage for abortion-inducing drugs. This has unconstitutional assault on the protections for freedom of conscience and religion in the First Amendment. When president goes outside the law and acts as if he were a monarch, he tend to bypass the other two branches The president is most likely to use his executive orders to do whatever he wants even without approval

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