March 17, 2006
The Founding Fathers and Executive Power
We find ourselves at a moment when Americans are bitterly divided on the question of the constitutional limits of presidential power. It is certainly not the first time in our nation's history when the issue has presented itself. From Andrew Jackson's "war" on the Bank of the United States to Abraham Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War to Franklin D. Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court to Harry S. Truman's attempted seizure of the country's steel mills to
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