Bill of Rights Day: What left of them?
The Daily Caller
by Nat Hentoff
12/15/11
John Jay, the co-writer of the Federalist Papers and the first chief justice of the United States (1789-95), wrote in a 1786 letter to Thomas Jefferson that he was worried that under our evolving founding document that became the Constitution, Congress would have exorbitant power. ... The separation of powers was indeed embodied in the Constitution, but especially in the Bush and Obama administrations, the executive branch has been so disproportionately and unilaterally strengthened that I urge the Cato Institute to actively redistribute, with a short epilogue, its 2008 book by Gene Healy, The Cult of the Presidency: America s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power. It can make for more crucially discerning voters in 2012...
http://tinyurl.com/6spytqt
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Thomas+Jefferson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bill+of+Rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=separation+of+powers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=executive+power
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gene+Healy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nat+Hentoff
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by Nat Hentoff
12/15/11
John Jay, the co-writer of the Federalist Papers and the first chief justice of the United States (1789-95), wrote in a 1786 letter to Thomas Jefferson that he was worried that under our evolving founding document that became the Constitution, Congress would have exorbitant power. ... The separation of powers was indeed embodied in the Constitution, but especially in the Bush and Obama administrations, the executive branch has been so disproportionately and unilaterally strengthened that I urge the Cato Institute to actively redistribute, with a short epilogue, its 2008 book by Gene Healy, The Cult of the Presidency: America s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power. It can make for more crucially discerning voters in 2012...
http://tinyurl.com/6spytqt
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Thomas+Jefferson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bill+of+Rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=separation+of+powers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=executive+power
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gene+Healy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nat+Hentoff
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