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Feingold's Outline for a Constitutional Presidency
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Jan 07, 2009 12:22pm |
| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Jan 07, 2009 01:00pm |
| Description | The new U.S. Senate is struggling to constitute itself this week, and the picture is a sorry one.
Fights over how and when to seat potential members -- who have arrived via controversial elections or even more controversial appointments -- give the chamber a sideshow feel at a time when it should be asserting itself as an equal partner in the governance of the country.
Senators swear an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" when taking office.
But, for the most part, members of the upper house of Congress are so concerned with petty partisan games and positioning themselves in relation to a hyper-powerful executive branch that they immediately and completely forget about that oath and the duty to maintain the separation of powers defined by the Constitution.
The exception to the misrule is Sen. Russ Feingold, the Wisconsin Democrat who chairs the Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on the Constitution. |
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