#Latest news with #legislativeusurpationsWall Street Journal2 days agoPoliticsWall Street JournalThe Presidency Has Become a Trump CardConcerns about executive power go back to the beginning of our republic—but the controversies of the Trump era are also new. Writing in defense of the Constitution in 1788, James Madison observed that 'the legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.' Powerful legislatures came with risks: 'Legislative usurpations . . . must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.'
Wall Street Journal2 days agoPoliticsWall Street JournalThe Presidency Has Become a Trump CardConcerns about executive power go back to the beginning of our republic—but the controversies of the Trump era are also new. Writing in defense of the Constitution in 1788, James Madison observed that 'the legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.' Powerful legislatures came with risks: 'Legislative usurpations . . . must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.'
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