"If we of this generation destroy either degrade the standard of living or deprtve
control of the means of production and the necessarles of ife, we deprive the Amerlcans of to-day and of the future of industrial Wberty, a right no less preclous and vital than
political freedom." Theodore Roosevelt
s from which our children would otherwlse derive thelr ivellhood, we reduce the capacity of our land to support a population, and se
to ife on this contin ent. If we allow great industrial organizatlons to exercise unregulated
According to the excernt
ken from a letter President Theodore Roosevelt wrote Congress, how did the President feel about unregulated business use of the nation's natural resources?
A he believed businesses should be free to do whatever they please
DB he believed business should be regulated to preserve natural resources
Dche does not care about nature at all
ODhe encouraged businesses to extract ALL of the nations natural resources

in the united states, the president is controlled by the

constitution, and in all respects subordinate to it. insofar

as it deals with presidential power, however, the american

constitution has proved to be a highly malleable document.

with very few exceptions,' the constitutional provisions relating to the president have not been changed at all since

they were ratified in 1787. but in the late twentieth century, those provisions do not mean what they meant in

1787. the constitution is a legal document, and it is enforced judicially; but its meaning was hardly fixed when it

was ratified. in particular, the contemporary president has

far broader powers than the original constitution contemplated. it is remarkable but true that large-scale changes in

the authority of the president have been brought about

without changes in the constitutional text, but nevertheless

without significant illegality.

this is a paradox. is it not clear that constitutional

changes, if not textual, are illegal? the paradox has considerable relevance to our current thinking about the presidency in particular and about constitutionalism in general.

perhaps the framers of the american constitution feared

legislative power most of all; 2 but from well-known events

in the twentieth century, it is possible to conclude that it is

presidential power that holds out the greatest risks to both

liberty and democracy. the president is by far the most visible leader in the nation; he is often the only person in government with a national constituency. moreover, he is

"they had a large area of land that they owned."