This Article contends that these Article II obligations, paired with the statutory and implied constitutional duty to do only what is both necessary and proper, provide textual grounds for thick normative constraints on presidential power even in the absence of more robust structural constraints. A ...
Indeed, take a look at the programs and policies that willnotbe affected by the 2024 presidential election, and you’ll get a clearer sense of the government’s priorities, which have little to do with representing the taxpayers and everything to do with amassing money, power and control. ...
Define constitutionalist. constitutionalist synonyms, constitutionalist pronunciation, constitutionalist translation, English dictionary definition of constitutionalist. n. 1. Government in which power is distributed and limited by a system of laws that
In Youngstown, Justice Hugo Black, speaking for the Court, delivered a weighty rebuke to the claim of "extra-constitutional" power. In the same case, Justice Robert Jackson dismissed Sutherland's claim of an extra-constitutional presidential power as mere "dictum." The theory of extra-...
Federal prosecutors are investigating six cases against Castillo, most of them for alleged corruption, under the theory that he has used his power to profit from public works. The power struggle in Perú's capital has continued as the Andes and its thousands of small farms struggle to survive ...
which he believed would offend white Southerners. In 1932 he supported the presidential campaign ofFranklin D. Roosevelt, who easily defeated Pres.Herbert Hoover; that year Black also won reelection to the Senate. Black was a strong supporter of Roosevelt’sNew Deallegislation and court-reorganizatio...
government that lacked coercive power over the states. Indeed, the outstanding characteristic of the Articles—state sovereignty—was reflected in theory by the fact that the governing document did not capitalize "united states," and in practice by the refusal of states to honor their federal ...
The Supreme Court uses five types of arguments: (a) textual; (b) from the framers' intent; (c) constitutional theory (coherence); (d) from precedent; and (e) value arguments (such as moral, policy, or teleological arguments).117 The ECJ uses, above all, a purposive and meta...
“This is a reaction to the previous governor, Gov. Bevin, and his obvious misuse of that pardon power,” Thomas said. The proposed restriction on gubernatorial pardon powers is competing with several other proposed constitutional amendments being con...
The statute of limitation was dispensed with through a dubious and novel legal theory that only a demonstrably hostile jury pool could buy into. Trump and his lawyers were not even fully informed of the charges being brought against him until after the defense’s closing argument, in what...