Commander-in-Chief — with one big asterisk

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The U.S. President — as described by the White House and codified in the U.S. Constitution in Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 — is also the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. armed forces. There were a number of reasons the founders of the country wanted an elected civilian in this role and one of them was to lead the overall defense of the nation (Governors still have this role for their state or territorial national…