Executive
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
That power in the government which causes the laws to be executed and obeyed. The officer in whom the executive power is vested. The constitution of the United States directs that "the executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America."
Article 2, § 1.
See Story, Const, bk.
3, c. 36.