Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on president as a dominant force in foreign policymaking. Section 3 goes further to grant the President the powers to receive ambassadors or other foreign leaders to negotiating treaties and agreements (Dumbrell & Barrett, 2005). The Congress is mandated by Article 1, Section 8 to exercise oversight power over appropriation of federal funds for the international programs, regulate commerce with foreign nations, declare of war, and regulate of the defense forces of the country including making the appropriate legislation in any of the issues listed in the section. Both the President and Congress have the opportunity to shape the foreign policy (Trimble p 752). The president is mandated by the constitution to shape the foreign policy or make US foreign policy in responses to foreign events, proposals for legislation, policy statements, policy implementation and independent action (Dumbrell & Barrett, 2005). Accordingly, the President shapes the policy through negotiation of international agreements and treaties. In the above circumstances, the Congress has a role since it can either change or support the President’s approach, but it may be difficult to change an independent action of the President in the short time (Dumbrell & Barrett, 2005). The Congress has the final voice in cases where international treaties or agreements are submitted for approval, but in most cases, it will support the actions of the President or make minimal modifications to such agreements before granting the approval (U.S Department of State, 2014).

According to the words of Edward Corwin, the constitution has granted the President certain powers capable of affecting the foreign policy and certain powers of general kind to the Congress, but the decisive and final voice in the foreign policymaking is left for the events to resolve (Dumbrell & Barrett, 2005).