Quote by Brion T. McClanahan

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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