Then it is my duty to execute that decision".
Apart from his two years as director of the Policy Planning Staff, when creating ideas for policy was his job, it was normally not only his role but his professional duty to execute faithfully policies that had been made by others.
As Keith Henley, the pastor of the Trinity Baptist Church in El Reno, an Oklahoma City suburb, put it during a recent conference on the death penalty, "It is our moral duty to execute Timothy McVeigh".
But today we must publicly acknowledge that keeping Guantanamo active is wrong and unlawful and in clear violation of a presidential administration's duty to execute laws and uphold the Constitution.
He said Mr. Obama should have stopped enforcing a statute he viewed as unconstitutional "rather than saying, 'Oh, we'll wait till the Supreme Court tells us we have no choice.' " The White House took umbrage at the remark and said the president was upholding his constitutional duty to execute the laws until the Supreme Court rules otherwise.
The chartered right to do a particular business did not operate to deprive the state of its lawful police authority, and therefore the franchise to do the business was inherently qualified by the duty to execute the charter powers conformably to such reasonable police regulations as might thereafter be adopted in the interest of the public welfare.
European astronaut, Thomas Reiter, spent 6 months on the space station to perform Flight Engineer duties and to execute an articulated European multi-disciplinary research programme.
"All Muslims are duty-bound to execute the sentence against the apostate Rushdie, even if the government is not inclined to do so".
The principle that the contemporaneous construction of a statute by the executive officers of the government, whose duty it is to execute it, is entitled to great respect, and should ordinarily control the construction of the statute by the courts, is so firmly imbedded in our jurisprudence that no authorities need be cited to support it.
The President's directive to close the Southern border entirely would also run counter to the executive branch's duty to faithfully execute the law.
I. Included among the duties of the President is the duty to faithfully execute the laws of the land.
