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28 p. ; 28 cm. |
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Also available online. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-28). |
| Summary |
In its official legal briefs and public actions, the Bush administration has advanced a view of federal power that is astonishingly broad, a view that includes (1) a federal government empowered to regulate core political speech -- and restrict it greatly when it counts the most in the days before a federal election; (2) a president who cannot be restrained, through validly enacted statutes, from pursuing any tactic he believes to be effective in the war on terror; (3) a president who has the inherent constitutional authority to designate American citizens suspected of terrorist activity as "enemy combatants," strip them of any constitutional protection, and lock them up without charges for the duration of the war on terror -- in other worse, perhaps forever; and (4) a federal government with the power to supervise virtually every aspect of American life from kindergarten, to marriage, to the grave. President Bush's constitutional vision is, in short, sharply at odds with the text, history, and structure of our Constitution, which authorizes a government of limited powers. |
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Constitutional law.
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Executive power -- Corrupt practices.
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Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946- -- Political and social views.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
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Lynch, Timothy.
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Cato Institute.
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