Programs that you otherwise actually support. In fact, those are more drastic remedies, and frankly they wont remedy the problem. They wont force the executive to faithfully execute the laws. If all you want is congress is for the executive to faithfully execute your laws, peaceful judicial resolution may be the most tailored and appropriate response. So all of this reveals a glaring deficiency in those who criticize the committees draft resolution. States can sue to preserve their power. The executive branch it sue to preserve its power but somehow magically congress cant. I guess under this logic congress is some sort of institutional orphan thats uniquely incapable of being injured enough to establish standing to sue. The absurdity of that position is belied by extensive case law that recognizes that subdivisions of congress in the form of committees have standing to assert institutional injury caused by the executive branch. These cases, most of which have been litigated here in th
That unless, quote, an agency has adopted a general policy thats so extreme as to amount to an abdomen occasion of its statutory responsibilities. Neither are regulatory delays implementing the employer mandate an affront to the constitution. I think we should take a look at the text of the take care clause. Particularly, the words faithfully and even more striking phrase, take care. The framers could have prescribed simply that the president execute the laws and the legislative history of the constitution shows that they deliberately chose not to do this. Why did they add the words faithfully and especially take care . Defining the president s obligation in this fashion seems to me incorporates that the concept that the president s duty is to execute laws in good faith and to exercise reasonable care in doing so. Scholars concur that this phrasing is that exercise judgment and handle his enforcement duties with fidelity to all laws and the entire law that hes enforcing, the entire aca
Fit with reality. Congress general capacity over funding the executive branch of the government gives Congress Lots of authority to rein in the president. President s have used their Statutory Authority in very large ways. The framers of the constitution came close to giving us a legislatively centered government. But in august of 1787 in a very dramatic period at the very end of the Constitutional Convention led by governor morris of pennsylvania, rufus king of new york, they gave the president independent authority. They gave the president for the first time the authority to negotiate treaties. They gave the president the power to nominate judges, which previously had been the purview of the senate in earlier drafts. They created an independent executive branch because they saw that this government was going to be entrusted with large responsibilities, and you needed a strong executive. Thats what weve seen through washington and lincoln and roosevelt and others, that this country se
It was hard to picture many president s doing that is the First American palm where a selfinflicted gunshot wound is the centerpiece of the poem. It is disturbing. Train the modern condition. The trouble that people have which they hide train the modern condition. The trouble the people have in which they hide. Loneliness, people unwilling tos show it. , so theying to show it hide behind a mask. Despite the fact that they have wealth. Despite the fact that they have that they are handsome or above anybody else in many ways. Deep within themselves they can be in a happy be unhappy. At theophe follows them end of their lives. So this is a very serious kind of a poem. It is not a lighthearted, funloving poem. Roosevelt was an expert reader and appreciated the craftsmanship and the all that robinson was able to capture regarding this character. This type of person who hides behind the mask. Robinson stayed in the Customs House as long as roosevelt was president. And when he left the white
Weve been live on American History tv from the world war i centennial symposium at the macarthur memorial in norfolk, virginia. Well reair the days events this evening at 8 00 eastern here on cspan 3. Up next constitutional law professor michael gere hardt talks about his book the forgotten president s and discusss 13 president s least remembered by americans due in large part to their strict constitutional vision. The National Constitution Center Hosted this event and it runs about an hour and 10 minutes. This book is spectacular. I was so excited to read it this book on the forgotten president s. What michael has done is take a topic which seems like a parlor game, these obscure president s we dont remember well, and revealed that the constitution was at the center both of their failures, devotion to a particular constitutional vision but also that their failures laid the groundwork for the success of more powerful president s. This is a constitution saturated book. It is so on missi