The historian and presidential adviser Arthur Schlesinger Jr. used the term to describe the power of the president to speak for the nation on the world stage and to set the policy agenda at home.

A presidency becomes imperial when it relies on powers beyond those allowed by the Constitution of the U.S. As the United States became a great world power and then a superpower, the presidency acquired more war powers despite the Constitution.

Explanation:

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.