[lacy_tinpot]

The "American People" are not the bureaucrats working under the Presidency. The American People are the common people that vote to have their will be represented.

And the President represents that will.

The government is the property of the public, the very people that assigned and put in place a President of their choosing, to direct a branch of the government. In effect to exert the power of the People.

The President in effect very much has the legitimate power, as given by the American People, to smash everything and anything under the Executive branch.

The wish of the President is in effect the wish of the people that have elected the President.