Protestantism

» Migisi - Piece Of Paper

In response to Piece Of Paper posted by pink101:
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http://www.comlinks.com/polintel/pi05121...
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"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
http://911courage.org/article.php/200608...
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Bush challenges hundreds of laws - President cites powers of his office
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articl...
April 30, 2006
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(quote) "WASHINGTON -- President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.
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"Many legal scholars say they believe that Bush's theory about his own powers goes too far and that he is seizing for himself some of the law-making role of Congress and the Constitution-interpreting role of the courts.
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"Phillip Cooper, a Portland State University law professor who has studied the executive power claims Bush made during his first term, said Bush and his legal team have spent the past five years quietly working to concentrate ever more governmental power into the White House.
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'There is no question that this administration has been involved in a very carefully thought-out, systematic process of expanding presidential power at the expense of the other branches of government," Cooper said. 'This is really big, very expansive, and very significant." (end)
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"We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let word go forth from this place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today."
President John F. Kennedy
Inaugural Address
Washington, DC
January 20, 1961
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"We can take away rights just as we can grant new ones," [Supreme Court Justice] Scalia warns. "Don't think that it's a one-way street."
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(quoted from 911Courage.org site)

-- posted by Migisi