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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The president has no constitutional authority to start a war. This was by design. The founders understood that putting war powers in the hands of the executive was dangerous.
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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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A lot of people are understandably angry about Joe Biden's executive orders relating to vaccine mandates.. But this is what you get when you let politicians exercise power they never should have had in the first place. Biden's orders ride on the back of decades of executive overreach.
The post This Is What You Get first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.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.
Today in 1834, President Andrew Jackson called forth soldiers to suppress a labor dispute for the first time. The event was considered to be a bold, unprecedented extension of executive authority. After workers on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal rioted over working conditions, the government of Maryland begged President Jackson for federal assistance, hastily interpreting…
Constitutionally, war and peace aren’t the president’s decision.
I haven’t gotten too involved in the so-called “travel ban” executive order – as TAC has been up to our ears in our work on other projects. However, I was just reading the Ninth Circuit’s order affirming the temporary restraining order and was struck – dead in my tracks – by this: The Government contends…
The exercise of broad executive powers have been pushing the United States into the abyss of despotism for decades. It is often suggested that the president’s first obligation is to protect a singular “American people,” a nebulous and fallacious construct in the first place, from foreign danger. On the contrary, no such depiction can be…
People often say they want a strong president who can get things done. But that’s pretty much the exact opposite of what the founding fathers set up under the Constitution.