azza1625/createdebate-arguments huggingface dataset:
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

The executive is more powerful than legislation because of the president’s power to make executive orders. Although executive orders aren’t written in the constitution, it is an implied power from Article 2. With this power, the president can make order which is similar to a law without having the check of congress, allowing him to work faster than congress. The president also has more power in his ability to reverse an executive order without review.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

While it is true that executive orders allow the president to work faster than passing a bill through Congress, the orders are not permanent. The fact that executive orders can be reversed easily isn't a strength. It shows that executive orders only work for the short term, since the next president can undo all the progress made. On top of this, the Supreme Court can declare an executive order unconstitutional, so the executive branch is still checked but by the judicial branch. He needs a constitutional basis or a statute to support his order in the long run and is not able to make these orders haphazardly.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

It’s common knowledge that the President has the power to veto bills and other acts of Congress, but you may also argue that the President’s veto can be overridden by two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate. This however hardly happens because of how gridlocked and polarized congress is. The President has veto power for a reason, to keep the legislative branch from becoming too powerful.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

Like you said the Presidents veto can be overridden by two-thirds vote in both House and Senate and although it might not happen often it is still possible. If the issue is important enough the veto can be overridden.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

One reason that the executive branch is more powerful than legislation is because the executive branch isn't polarized. Congress is divided between people who identify as liberals or conservatives, and republicans and democrats. In the 2018 midterm elections, the senate was won by a majority of republicans, and the house was won by a majority of democrats. This prevents a lot from being done such as bills and laws being passed, because the democrats and republicans in congress will most likely disagree on the issue. In the executive branch however, the president has a say so in who becomes his vice president, his cabinet officials, and the head of independent agencies.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

There is more to a presidency than just having "a say so in who becomes his vice president, his cabinet officials, and the head of independent agencies." Having a say so on who is on the President's "team" is only a minor aspect that he has full control over. If he was to do something majority of Congress didn't agree with, his team would have no power in that situation because they are essentially irrelevant.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

I'm pretty sure the claim was that the executive isn't polarized and you have nothing disputing that. Congress is set up in a way that they are meant to disagree while the president is one person, so unless he has multiple personality disorder I don't think he'll disagree with himself. Also your statement that the president "team" is irrelevant seems completely made up.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

President has the power to veto bills from congress and they will be sent back to congress for further discussion of the bill. Even though congress has the power to use veto override to a bill vetoed by the president, it will take ⅔ of both house for this to be passed back so the president cannot veto again. For the entire time Obama was in office, out of the 147 bills that Obama vetoed, only one bill was overridden against the president. This justifies the fact that the executive branch is more powerful than the legislative
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

Although it may be unlikely to happen, Congress still has this power over president, so when it comes to very important issues, The congress will use their power to override the presidents veto. Out of all the bills proposed throughout Obama's presidency, 147 is not a lot. So the veto power is not used much at all either.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

You have to understand that in the beginning of Obama's presidency, the Democratic party controlled both Congress and the Presidency. There was no need for President Obama to use his veto power because his Congress agreed with him. That is not a broad enough spectrum to use as evidence to support that vetoes aren't used often.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

The president controls all executive ordersThe law doesn’t require approval from congress.Executive Order 9066, which delegated military authority to remove any or all people in a military zone.This was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942.Congress may try to overturn an executive order by passing a bill that blocks it, but the president can veto the law.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

While the president controls the output of an executive order he can't control what happens to it in the future. If the legislative branch feels the president's order is outrageous they can make a law getting rid of it, and if the president vetos the law, the law was already passed through both the houses so the turn out will be the same leading to a law being made. Congress has more power with its bills; they become permanent while an executive order can last only as long as other presidents and branches will let it.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

National Emergencies- A national emergency allows the president to make laws without consulting anyone else. Which allows the president to act swiftly. And can only be undone by a super majority from both house and senate. Has been declared 59 times.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

While declaring national emergency is a power it is as if you're handing a loaded gun to a child. If the President doesn't get something he wants he can declare national emergency and this back fires because it is him who is doing wrong to the people of America. Citizens will see him as selfish and hold him liable for those going without, painting a bad image of himself by his own fault. For example President Trump declared national emergency for not getting the wall money effecting millions of Americans and he didn't get all of the money he wanted in the end.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

Executive Orders- Are like laws. But can bypass all the steps of becoming a law. They don't have to go through any other branch or party. And they can be undone by the next president.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

The legislature has the power to overturn an Executive Order.Congress can do this by passing a bill that blocks the Executive Order.Although the president can veto this bill, Congress has the power to override a presidential veto with a 2/3 vote in both houses.The president is unable to undo this bill and would have to make another executive order to get around this law.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

Congress has the power to overturn an executive order by passing a bill that will block it. This was done 5 times to FDR.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

Pocket veto- An indirect veto that is issued by the president. There has been a total of 2,580 pocket vetoes that have taken place. There has only been 111 of them that have been overridden. It requires a ⅔ vote from both house and senate to overridden.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

Also, most presidents do it in a way that the pocket veto cannot be undone, which also accounts for a majority of the 2,580 pocket vetos.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

Actually, there have only been a total of 1,066 pocket vetoes (https://history.house.gov/Institution/Presidential-Vetoes/Presidential-Vetoes/ ). Pocket vetoes can't be overridden, unlike regular vetoes. You most likely have regular vetoes and pocket vetoes mixed up.Although pocket vetoes give the President a way around Congress, if he or she uses it too often they have a good chance of being impeached. Being impeached is hard to do but it's a final power that Congress has to remove the President from their position and any power he or she has.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

While congress can impeach a president, it is very rare and has only happened twice in the 44 presidents we have had (excluding our current president because he has no officially been impeached). To impeach a president it would require his or her own party to turn against them. (Call me out in the hall if you would like me to elaborate some more ;))
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

The president doesn't have to sign bills and can veto. Yes, it is true that congress can try to override the veto, but that would take 2/3 of both chambers of congress to do so. Congress has only been successful in overriding the president 106 times out of 1,484.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

The president’s veto power gives the executive immense power over the legislative branch. A bill can be approved by both chambers in congress and by not signing it, the president can stop the bill from becoming a law. Although Congress can override a veto, it is very difficult to get ⅔ of both chambers to vote to override the veto. For example, Trump vetoed a bill passed by congress that would have countered Trump’s declaration of funding the wall as a national emergency.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

The president is more powerful than congress. With the executive order the president can pass a law without the approval of congress. In previous years the president used the Executive Order to delegate military authority to remove any or all people in a military. You can argue that the president’s can be overturned by passing a bill but the president also has the power to veto that bill which ultimately allows him to still get what he wants.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

It is important to note that executive orders are not laws. While executive orders carry the same weight as legislation, calling executive orders laws implies that the orders cannot be overturned.Remember that Congress can still overturn a president's veto as well. It takes a 2/3 vote in both houses, but Congress has successfully override vetoes in the past. The president also has the Supreme Court to worry about the constitutionality of his executive orders! He is not able to "get what he wants" so easily if a judge finds his order unconstitutional.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

The president also has the power to Command Armed Forces. This means The president decides where troops shall be stationed, where ships shall be sent, and how weapons shall be used. All military generals take their orders from the president. Although the president cannot declare war but the Constitution makes the President Commander in Chief of all U.S. military forces, and Congress cannot give command to any other person. With this power the President only has to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

President being able to vetoA veto is the power to unilaterally stop an official action, especially the enactment of legislation.President has the power to veto acts of congress to prevent the legislative branch from becoming too powerful.The president has ten days (excluding Sundays) to sign a bill passed by Congress.The president's decision not to sign the legislation is a pocket veto and Congress does not have the opportunity to override.( they could by ⅔ but has never happened)
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

First off, you are wrong. There has been a presidential veto that has been overridden. One large example of this is bill number H.R.2419 during President Bush's term within two days of the veto.https://www.senate.gov/legislative/vetoes/BushGW.htm Here is some extra information to adapt the knowledge of the overrides in president Bush's term.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

The president has more power than congress because he is able to make executive orders. These become laws while the president is in office and even though the order can be removed when the following president comes in, congress isn't able to take it away. This shows that the president still has power to do what he wants without the approval of Congress.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

Congress can pass a bill which can contradict this executive order, while extremely rare- it is possible.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

The President has the power to veto bills. President has the power to veto bills from congress and they will be sent back to congress for further discussion of the bill. This will usually mean the longer the bill has to go through process of being passed, that the bill will die somewhere back in Congress Even though congress has the power to use veto override to a bill vetoed by the president, it will take ⅔ of both house for this to be passed back so the president cannot veto again For the entire time Obama was in office, out of the 147 bills that obama vetoed, only one bill was overridden against the president.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

Having a bill die in Congress does not prove anything about the President being more powerful than Congress. It is just the way congress works, not the presidency.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

The Executive is quicker and more effective than Congress. Using Executive orders and agreements, the President can enact rules and regulations in a fraction of the time it takes Congress. The President also doesn't have to seek approval from Congress for these Executive acts. In order for Congress to pass a law, it has to overcome the different opinions of 535 people in the two houses and STILL has to be approved by the president. Congress is extremely slow because not only are there two houses but two PARTIES that are constantly fighting over what the "proper" solution to a given problem is. Meanwhile, the Executive could have passed dozens of orders and agreements to accomplish practically the same things. The Executive also has control of the military which he can use to enforce the orders and agreements he enacts. Sure, there is the War Powers Resolution, but it is only a parchment barrier at this point. Every President has said it is unconstitutional and they never adhere to it for any conflict. Even current trends have been showing the power of the executive order. More executive orders have been used recently than ever before, and Congress continues to pass less and less legislation as the years pass. These continuing trends just continue to show how obsolete the Legislative branch is in the current political climate.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/every-presidents-executive-actions-in-one-chart/  The use of executive orders is actually on the decline. If a President were to get out of control with his overuse of the military, Congress has the power to cut money from the Department of Defense. The link above has a chart of the use of executive orders.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

Article 2 in the constitution gives the president the power to make executive orders, which are like laws, and don't have to be approved by Congress. Although they can be undone by the next president, executive orders are still a very powerful tool that works as an advantage for the current office holder, being that they allow the president to go around Congress and make emergency policies.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

It is not refined by the congress so if the public don't like it then they can protest to the congress and the congress can either impeach or pass a bill that kills the executive order. if the president decide to veto the bill the congress can override it too.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

Presidential Appointment powersWhile the president can give instructions to the US military, congress can not give orders to anyone else.The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.the President of the United States to nominate and, with the advice and consent (confirmation) of the United States Senate, appoint public officials.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

if the public don't like the decision then they can protest to the congress and the congress can either impeach or pass a bill that stops the president's action. if the president decided to veto the bill the congress can override it too.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

POTUS has executive privilege and "secrecy is an inherent power of the executive." This meas everything that the president does not have to seen by the public. This goes against congress because they have to be transparent. For this reason he is more powerful because he can do what he wants and congress has to worry about public opinion.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

If the president did something thats morally wrong and goes against the public will then the congress can impeach the president and remove him form office.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

The President has the power of the pocket veto which in select circumstances can completely shut Congress out of passing legislation. When the President leaves a bill sitting on his desk, it doesn't go back to Congress. If he were to veto the bill, it could go back to Congress, and the two houses could override the Veto. If the President knows that a supermajority of Congress would pass the bill, he can just leave the bill sitting there and void the opinion of Congress. This just goes to show exactly how much control the Executive branch has over the passing of laws.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

Although the President has the power of pocket veto, they only happen when congress is about to go to session and it is very unlikely to happen.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

A president cannot use pocket vetoes reliably to have control over passing legislation. The only month that Congress is guaranteed to be out of session is August. A singular month out of the entire year is an incredibly small time frame for the president to really take advantage of pocket vetoes. More importantly, a bill only has 10 days on the president's desk and will be passed as a law automatically if the president does not take action on it and Congress is in session. If Congress is presenting bills to the president's desk, then it is likely that they will be still be in session 10 days after.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

Congress has the power to override a presidential veto.After a presidential veto is placed on a bill, if a 2/3 vote is recorded in both houses, the bill can be passed.During the Obama administration, the president placed a veto on a bill that states families of 9/11 victims can sue Saudi Arabia. Congress proceeded to get a 2/3 vote in both houses to override this veto.Although it is relatively difficult to override a veto, if the president begins to veto too many laws, his public support will plummet and eventually he will be tried for impeachment because he will not let Congress do their job.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The executive is more powerful

Congress barely overrides any vetoes of the President, and even then, the use of the Pocket Veto can shut out any chance for a veto override. President Bush did this for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 which had a supermajority support in Congress. If he would have vetoed it, the veto would have been overriden, but he just pocket vetoed it instead to ensure it wouldn't go back to Congress for a vote.
Debate: 4th Block: Which is more powerful, the executive or legislative branch?
Side: The legislative is ++ powerful

congress has power to ratify treaties with 2/3 senate vote, In the enumerated powers for congress, the list says congress has power to ratify treaties with ⅔ of senate approval. In article II section 2 in the Constitution.