Compare and Contrast Constitutional Powers of the Congress & President

Presidency
The U.S. constitution exclusively assigns specific powers to Congress and the president. In a video by HarvardX (2021), Patterson indicates that the power separation between the two has continued to spark debates for decades due to the widening differences. The leading concerns are whether the presidency eclipses the Congress in foreign policy matters, accountability of the president and whether a need for constitutional power changes of either of the two arms exists.
Foreign Policy Constitutional Powers of the Presidency and Congress
In the U.S., Constitution’s Article I outlines Congress’s power in this capacity. It states the power to rule over any commercial interactions with foreign nations (Masters, 2017). Others include the ability to assess and determine war declarations. Patterson supports such an aspect when indicating that past wars by Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam and George W. Bush in Afghanistan and Iraq required formal authorization from Congress, which illustrates its powers in this subject (HarvardX, 2021). Moreover, only Congress can raise armies and make appropriate regulation rules for controlling naval and land forces. Other than its critical role in taxes and influence of relators’ reach in foreign policy matters, Congress also approves the diplomat’s appointment and treaty-making by the president.
Article II enumerates the foreign affairs powers of the president. In this charter, the officeholder can make ambassadorial appointments and treaties based on the Senate’s consent and advice (HarvardX, 2021). However, besides complying with this constitutional section, the president invokes other executive power bestowing clauses for foreign policy influences, leading to diverse implied powers (Masters, 2017). Such aspects lead to the president’s implicitly authority, such as recognizing foreign nations for diplomacy conduct and using military forces as commander-in-chief without a prior need for approvals. Patterson indicates that such implicit powers demonstrate why the president has too much control, including in war matters (HarvardX, 202...