Congressional Issues 2008
GOVERNMENT
The Imperial Presidency: Growth of the Executive Branch

• exercise its Constitutional "Power of the Purse" and reign in an out-of-control government, and thereby
• remind the Executive Branch of its Constitutional limitations.
• resist the "Unitary Executive."

• Drunk with Power and Esteem, Presidents' Sanity Disappears | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary
• New President Won't Tame Executive Power whether it's Obama or McCain
• Bush’s Bogus Theory of Absolute Power inherited by McCain or Obama
• Power, Paranoia and Presidential Tyranny by Chris Floyd
• Bush's Signing Statement Dictatorship
• Legislating Tyranny by Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton
• The Neo-Monarchy of George W. Bush
• The Sovereign Presidency: Is This What the Framers Had in Mind? | The Foundation for Economic Education
• A Founding Father on presidential powers | Nat Hentoff

• The Presidency
• The President and the Executive Branch
• Presidential quotes on War Powers

• Government
• Constitution
• Federalism Reform
• Government Power (lp-pr's)

Three Branches of Government:
Executive || Legislative || Judicial
The Fourth Branch

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