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This depends on ones interpretation.

Our government has set up a system of checks and balances, each branch can override another.

There are three branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial.

The legislature enacts statutes, to become law, they must be signed by the president. The president doesn't have to sign a bill though, he can "veto" the bill. (veto means 'I Forbid' in Latin). If the president vetoes a bill, the legislature can override the veto and still enact the statute.

The judicial branch also has a check on the legislature. It can declare acts of congress unconstitutional.

Some people say that the executive branch has the most power, because the president has what President Teddy Roosevelt called, "The bully pulpit." He can talk to congressmen and Senators to try to influence them to pass laws that he likes. He can also issue what is called an executive order. An executive order is similar to a law. For example, President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order that declared Japanese Americans to be enemies of the state, and ordered that Japanese Americans living on the west coast be rounded up and put in internment camps for most of WW2.

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