No because, for example, suppose someone comes up with an experimental Ebola vaccine & the president says “it’s important to vaccinate people with this as a precaution.” Can you then say “wait, you only have the authority to do this once we’ve reached some arbitrary # of deaths”?
We passed constitutional amendments specific to the problems of Reconstruction. There's no "whatever seems appropriate" clause in the Constitution.
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(Shelby ignored one of them.) There are laws that Biden’s actions fall under. Nobody did “whatever seems appropriate”, but, regardless, presidential authority is a malleable concept that is often employed on national security grounds, so there’s no consistent principle here.
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Article II explicitly makes the president the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. As Robert Jackson noted, that does not make him commander-in-chief of the country.
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