Posted on 03/20/2002 7:54:47 PM PST by Texasforever
Well in light of the fact that the Senate is populated by 100 "presidents in waiting" They may just try that sometime. LOL
Would that be the hereditary monarchy idea or the Islam as the state religion idea? ;-)
That one. Hell they act that way now.
I know what you mean, all of these dynasties, not just the Kennedy's. I used to wonder how democracies turned into hereditary monarchies, in the absense of external conquest, I guess it is a little clearer now. To be fair there have always been something of the sort, the Adams family, for example, but they did not have a fannish sort of personality cult, they were admired for their service and ideas.
Not with the current demographics, but the future, who knows?
I pray not.
What do we do about secret Executive Orders? And I believe
there are many of those. In general I believe EO's as they
have been used recently to be un-constitutional. The famous
quote attributed to Paul Bagalua(sp) concerning EO's.
"Stroke of the pen, Law of the Land. Neat." really troubles
me.
Again I am certainly no law scholar and hope I didn't imply
that I was. I was quoting from a debate Bob Dornan was
was making, I think on C-Span. I have written him for Specific
refrences, if he replies, I will get them to all who have asked me
to put up or shut up. [:-)
The only times Pres. Washington vetoed a bill was when he thought it was unconstitutional. There is no single arbiter: all us citizens, and all our elected hired help, have a responsiblity to see that the Gov't stays within Constitutinal bounds.
No such thing as a secret EO. They all have to be published in the Federal Registry to carry the force of law.
I would hope you are right, but I would guess if they were
secret we couldn't know.
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