Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jul. 14, 2007
Bush’s Tenure Gives New Meaning to the 'Imperial Presidency’
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - George W. Bush's tyrannical tendencies rival those that of another George--the one who touched off the American Revolution.
By Marjorie Cohn
Our Founding Fathers created three separate but co-equal branches of government to check and balance one another so that no one branch would become all-powerful. Indeed, James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers, "The preservation of liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct." Madison warned, "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executiv...
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