“According to the Constitution as ratified, the legislature was to be the most powerful and important branch of government. Jefferson echoed this theme in the opening paragraph of his speech. “To you, then, gentlemen, who are charged with the sovereign… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“Southerner Tom Watson, a populist Jeffersonian from Georgia, faced potential prosecution under the law because his newspaper often opposed Wilson’s war aims and policies.… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“The Supreme Court upheld the law in the 2012 decision of National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, but not because it believed the… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“Violating the presidential oath, in whatever fashion, constitutes a “high crime and misdemeanor”—according to the founding generation’s definition.” — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“Madison suggested that the president should have “power to carry into effect the national laws, to appoint to offices in cases not otherwise provided… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“If Cleveland had only used the bully pulpit to harangue congressional leaders and rammed his “agenda” through the halls of Congress, he might have… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt had usurped constitutional power from Congress and bullied the American people into giving up their hard assets for pieces of paper. King Midas… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“Wilson also made regulating information and speech a top priority. Less than two weeks after his request for a declaration of war, Wilson nationalized… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“His first term is a model in executive restraint; it turned around an American political system that had deviated widely from the promises that… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“According to the Constitution as ratified, the legislature was to be the most powerful and important branch of government. Jefferson echoed this theme in… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“But George Mason still had concerns; he reasoned that though Congress would have had to call up the militia and the army, the president… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“By 1937, Roosevelt realized that the New Deal was on life support. Many of the programs did not work as intended, and the economy… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“Alexander Hamilton’s proposal for a First Bank of the United States met resistance from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison because the power to charter… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“Thus the Truman Doctrine—the president’s commitment of the United States to oppose Soviet expansionism, starting with Turkey and Greece—was born. The die had been… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“Wilson’s defining achievement as president was his legislative agenda, the “New Freedom.” He had written in 1908 that the president was “the political leader… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
“The Confederate States of America in 1861 was legally an independent government. The Southern states seceded by popular conventions of the people of each… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
