# Take Care Clause Article II, Section 3: the President "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." The clause is simultaneously the source of executive enforcement authority and the textual limit on it — the President executes the law, and is therefore bound by it. Two lines of argument run from the clause in opposite directions. [[Unitary Executive Theory]] reads it, together with the Vesting Clause, as giving the President exclusive control over everyone who executes federal law, and thus as barring congressional limits on removal. The competing reading treats "faithfully" as a duty of fidelity that forecloses suspending, dispensing with, or declining to enforce a validly enacted statute — the objection raised against impoundment, against non-enforcement policies, and against ignoring statutory clocks. The clause also carries international obligations into domestic duty: because ratified treaties are, under the [[Supremacy Clause]], part of "the Laws," an executive action violating a treaty the Senate approved is argued to violate the Take Care duty as well. That argument was pressed against the 2026 [[Iran War 2026]] strikes as a [[UN Charter]] Article 2(4) violation. See [[War Powers Decision Flow]].