Essay Questions: The Growing Power of the President

Potential Essay Questions

• Assess the difficulties that presidents face in their dealings with Congress.
• How accurate is it to describe the president as ‘bargainer-in-chief’?
• Examine the claim that ‘the president’s power is the power to persuade’.
• Who controls foreign policy; the president or Congress?
• Assess the accuracy of Pfiffner’s claim that ‘the presidency is not a powerful office’.