After you hear what Franklin had to say about executive power and human nature, we think you just might join us in saying "he called it!"
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We were warned. The powers amassed by each successive president empower whomever occupies the Oval Office to act as a dictator, above the law and beyond any real accountability.
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It should be obvious by now that the executive branch wields far too much power. This kind of consolidation was considered one of the greatest threats to liberty. Some warned that the system wouldn’t self-enforce and predicted the “elective despotism” we live under today.
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today's presidents have more power than the king the colonists fought a long-bloody war to free themselves from.
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The American revolutionaries fought a long war to free themselves from a king. So, why do so many people today seem to want an elected king?
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The Supreme Court isn't an oracle announcing the law; it determines the law as necessary to resolve cases before it.
The post President Biden’s Departmentalism first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.In the New York Times, Nicholas Bagley & Abbe R. Gluck: Trump’s Sabotage of Obamacare Is Illegal: A president doesn’t have the right to dispense with laws he dislikes. From the introduction: From the moment he took office, President Trump has used all aspects of his executive power to sabotage the Affordable Care Act. He has issued executive orders,…
They claim the feds have to "enforce the law" unless it's a policy they don't support.
Pres. Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reached a preliminary agreement to “denuclearize the Korean peninsula” during a historic summit in Singapore. But pundits and talking heads have missed a crucial fact in the midst of all the analysis. The president cannot constitutionally make any kind of legally-binding agreement without the advice…
it would be different if the framers had used different language -- e.g., "The President may pardon offenses." But that's not the language, and a textualist/originalist should take the language seriously.