ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author talks about the theory that the executive power was limited only by specific restrictions and prohibitions appearing in the Constitution or imposed by the Congress under its constitutional powers. He declined to adopt the view that what was imperatively necessary for the nation could not be done by the President unless he could find some specific authorization to do it. His belief was that it was not only his right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the nation demanded, unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws. The theory that the President could act at any time in his discretion withdraw from entry any of the public lands of the United States and reserve the same for forestry, for water-power sites, for irrigation, and other public purposes. The author also talks about the President of United States namely Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.
