Topic: Executive privilege

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

"Executive Privilege" Would Not be an Issue Had We Listened to Patrick Henry

Topics: Executive privilege, patrick henry, president, Ratification debates

Monday,June 9, 1788. Mandeville, LA - Perhaps instead of trading barbs in the fashion of "well Bush did it" followed by "yeah but Obama has doubled down on it...and Karl Rove s--ks anyways!" it would be more productive to ask WHY we have an Executive to start with and all his attendant agencies which bequeath these tyrannical powers? During the debates over ratification in the VA Convention, Patrick Henry looked into that most prescient of crystal balls that must have been ….Continue

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Topic: Executive privilege

"Executive Privilege" Would Not be an Issue Had We Listened to Patrick Henry

I saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.

Lord Acton Defending the states right to secede and form their own governments