Showing posts with label checks and balances. Show all posts
Showing posts with label checks and balances. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

King Charles on America

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  Many   posts  have  discussed  the  Founding . Ironically, the British monarch echoed the No Kings rallies in the US. From King Charles...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Recess Appointments

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Amber Phillips at WP: “Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appoi...
Sunday, November 3, 2024

Presidential Tariff Power

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 Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A: A new report from the Cato Institute argues that several laws authorize the president to impose tari...
Saturday, April 6, 2024

Consitutional Checks for Thee But Not for Me

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Nicholas Riccardi and Linley Sanders : A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Opinion Research [:] Though Americans s...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

Checks and Balances in Action

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Madison in Federalist 51 : In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct go...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

The Federalist Papers and a Court Case

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson explaining why former White House counsel Don McGahn has to testify before Congress: DOJ’s arguments to the c...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Corruption: International Data

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From Transparency International : The 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released today by Transparency International reveals the Unit...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

Rosenstein on Justice

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Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein Delivers Remarks at the Bar Association of Montgomery County’s Law Day CelebrationRockville, MD ~ ...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

The Oath and the FBI

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Special Agent Jonathan Rudd writes at the FBI: Early in the morning, on their first full day at the FBI Academy, 50 new-agent trainees, d...
Friday, May 12, 2017

"We don't oversee the executive..."

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At The Huffington Post, Igor Bobic reports on a town hall by Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ): Aside from health care, which dominated much of t...
Monday, March 27, 2017

James Madison, 2017

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At The Washington Post , Charles Krauthammer notes that the courts have checked the immigration actions, Congress has refused to rush repeal...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Is Congress Broken?

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A new book from Brookings: Is Congress Broken? The Virtues and Defects of Partisanship and GridlockEdited by William F. Connelly, Jr. , John...
Thursday, March 2, 2017

Maintaining Democracy in America

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Pew reports: Large majorities of the public, Republicans and Democrats alike, say open and fair elections and a system of governmental chec...
Monday, February 1, 2016

Federalist 10 and the 2016 Election

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D.J. Tice writes at The Minneapolis Star-Tribune : The founding fathers said there would be days like this. On the eve of the 2016 Iowa c...
Monday, September 14, 2015

Madison v. Trump

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At The Federalist , James Tracinski writes: Politically speaking, the conservative “base” is a minority faction. Our views—and I certainly...
Monday, December 31, 2012

Give Up on the Constitution?

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In The New York Times , law professor Louis Michael Seidman says that we should give up on the Constitution : Our obsession with the Const...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

James Madison Comes to Kenya

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In Kenya, Kepher Otenio writes at The Standard : According to a political scientist, Wilson Agenya, each of the three branches has a specif...