From Just What the Founders Feared: An Imperial President Goes to War: “Members of Congress should not be intimidated into thinking that they are overstepping their constitutional bounds. If the founders were looking on now, it is not Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi who would strike them as out of line, but George W. Bush, [...]
January 31, 2007 – 03:49 pm
From Congress, the Constitution and War: The Limits on Presidential Power: “In giving Congress the power to declare war, the Constitution gives it authority to make decisions about a war’s scope and duration. The Founders, including James Madison, who is often called “the father of the Constitution,†fully expected Congress to use these powers to [...]
December 11, 2006 – 11:58 am
From The Liberty Amendment: “The Liberty Amendment will give back to the Constitution its full force and effect in limiting the powers and activities of the Federal Government and restoring those powers reserved to the States and to the people. The Liberty Amendment, proposed, could become the 28th Amendment to the Constitution.” Don’t know if [...]
September 29, 2006 – 07:25 am
If there was ever a moment for a filibuster, this was it.
March 14, 2006 – 12:34 pm
There’s an interesting editorial in the NY Times today about how some states are taking the iniative to drop out of the Electoral College. The iniative “proposes that states commit to casting their electoral votes for the winner of the national popular vote.” I’m not sure whether I agree with the Electoral College — I [...]
According the AP, Vermont towns endorse move to impeach Bush. The article starts, “In five Vermont communities, a centuries-old tradition of residents gathering in town halls to conduct local business became a vehicle to send a message to Washington: Impeach the president. An impeachment article, approved by a paper ballot 121-29 in Newfane Tuesday, calls [...]
As if putting Justice Alito on the bench wasn’t enough of a victory for the expansion of executive powers, President Bush now has the gall to ask Congress to give him the line-item veto, which would give him the power to cancel specific items in federal spending bills. So you know that budget and all [...]
February 23, 2006 – 03:47 pm
Dave, over at This Is Not News, is taking a couple of political science seminars this semester, and it has him asking, when it comes to democracy, can people handle the power? I think it is a very important question that any struggling democracy (such as ours) has to ask itself every once in a [...]
February 11, 2005 – 05:14 pm
[Originally Posted on the old Fluid Imagination site; this particular post was a homework assignment for a U.S. Government class]
Representatives of the State of Harmony, seeking to devise institutions that will maximize pluralist democracy, hereby proclaim the desire to achieve the following objective:
Whereas the Constitution of the United States, as ratified and adopted in 1788 [...]
Now Hearing