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Wednesday, May 7, 2008 12:00 AM

McCain embraces Bush's radical views of executive power

The GOP nominee actually complains that it is judicial power that is excessive and is unduly limiting the powers of the president.
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  • Wednesday, May 7, 2008 07:49 AM

    Executive Powers

    It's hard to see how a President Obama (or whoever) voluntarily relinquishing some of the previously claimed executive powers would necessarily set the path for future executives.

    Future presidents would still be unconstrained -- still able to pick up those previously claimed powers.

    The only way for a parliamentary democracy to limit executive power is for the parliament to (re-)claim its own prerogative. Of course, we never quite adopted parliamentary democracy here. Maybe that's a problem.

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