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The executive branch and the president of the united states are not entrusted with which of the powers listed below?

a. grant pardons
b. command the armed forces
c. sign or veto legislation
d. declare wars

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The correct answer is D

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The correct answer is D. The executive branch and the President of the United States are not entrusted with the power of declaring wars.

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In the United States of America, the President is the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, so he has absolute power over them. But this power gets operational in war only under Congress aproval. In other words, the President can command an attack to other country only if the Congress had declared war on it. It is not a power of the executive branch to declare war, but a power that Congress has taken for itself.

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