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法律英语考试:ExecutiveArticleIIentruststothePresidentoftheUnitedStatestheexecutivePower.“UnderPresidentGeorgeWashington(1789-1801),theentireexecutivebranchconsistedofthePresident,VicePresident,andtheDepartmentsofState,Treasury,War,andJustice.Asthenationgrew,theexecutivebranchgrewwithit.Todaythereare15Cabinet-levelDepartments.EachhousesanumberofBureaus,Agencies,andotherentities.StillotherpartsoftheexecutivebranchlieoutsidetheseDepartments.AllexerciseexecutivepowerdelegatedbythePresidentandthusareresponsibleultimatelytohim.Insomeareas,therelationshipbetweentheexecutiveandtheothertwobranchesisclear.Supposeoneormoreindividualsrobabank.Congresshaspassedastatutecriminalizingbankrobbery(UnitedStatesCode,Title18,Section2113*)。TheFederalBureauofInvestigation(FBI),abureauwithintheDepartmentofJustice,wouldinvestigatethecrime.Whenitapprehendedoneormoresuspects,aFederalProsecutor(alsoDepartmentofJustice)wouldattempttoprovethesuspectsguiltinatrialconductedbyU.S.DistrictCourt.Thebankrobberycaseisasimpleone.Butasthenationmodernizedandgrew,therelationshipofthethreebrancheswithinthelegalsystemevolvedtoaccommodatethemorecomplexissuesofindustrialandpost-industrialsociety.Theroleoftheexecutivebranchchangedmostofall.Inthebankrobberyexample,Congressneededlittleornospecialexpertisetocraftastatutethatcriminalizedbankrobbery.Supposeinsteadthatlawmakerswishedtobandangerousdrugsfromthemarketplace,orrestricttheamountofunhealthfulpollutantsintheair.Congresscould,ifitchose,specifyprecisedefinitionsoftheseterms.Sometimesitdoesso,butincreasinglyCongressinsteaddelegatesaportionofitsauthoritytoadministrativeagencieshousedintheexecutivebranch.TheFoodandDrugAdministration(FDA)thuswatchesoverthepurityofthenationsfoodandpharmaceuticalsandtheEnvironmentalProtectionAgency(EPA)regulateshowindustriesimpacttheearth,water,andair.AlthoughagenciespossessonlypowersthatCongressdelegatesbystatute,thesecanbequitesubstantial.Theycanincludetheauthoritytopromulgaterulesthatdefinewithprecisionmoregeneralstatutoryterms.Al