

They’d be limited by things like private property rights or a person’s right to life and freedom, but other than that I wouldn’t assume their powers are limited in any public place. The president has inherent power to do certain things (like maintain the army) that isn’t derived from congress, and it’s fair enough to conclude that maintaining the president’s personal safety is necessary for him to be able to execute presidential functions.













The therapist needs to have some reason to believe that a person is a threat to you or someone else. One purpose of the law is establishing community standards. Even if a single family all prefer to do nothing about the abuse, the community as a whole does not want to tolerate that kind of behavior in it. So really, it’s not supposed to help. It’s supposed to punish, to try to stop the behavior.