goverment beginning to assert its power to regulate the national economy, tax citizens directly, legislate social policies for the protection of the relatively poor and powerless, and involve the U.S. as a great power in the conduct of international politics. Two of those presidents, Roosevelt and Wilson, also began to define the twentieth-century presidency as the source of legislative initiative, the head of a vastly expanded federal bureaucracy empowered to enforced regulations of its own making, and to push the constitutional limits of its authority.
Explain and discuss how Wilson and Roosevelt changed the role of the presidency in legislative initiatives and how they made the presidency more powerful during their terms in office!
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