The sovereign presidency: Is this what the framers had in mind?
Foundation for Economic Education
by Joseph R. Stromberg
American government under the Constitution was supposedly meant to work as follows: Congress, staying within delegated powers and the Bill of Rights, passes laws; the president executes the laws; and the courts sort out ensuing wrangles. This plan ran aground rather early—the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts, for example—which raises at least two possibilities: 1) The Federalist movement systematically misrepresented its project or 2) the framers’ well-meant ‘design’ fell short of their goals... (written 01/07; posted 08/16/07)
http://tinyurl.com/3yfbl3
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joseph+R.+Stromberg
by Joseph R. Stromberg
American government under the Constitution was supposedly meant to work as follows: Congress, staying within delegated powers and the Bill of Rights, passes laws; the president executes the laws; and the courts sort out ensuing wrangles. This plan ran aground rather early—the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts, for example—which raises at least two possibilities: 1) The Federalist movement systematically misrepresented its project or 2) the framers’ well-meant ‘design’ fell short of their goals... (written 01/07; posted 08/16/07)
http://tinyurl.com/3yfbl3
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joseph+R.+Stromberg
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