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The constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. it has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [if a president is successful in bypassing the congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings.

-Richard M. Nixon

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Richard M. Nixon

The constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. it has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [if a president is successful in bypassing the congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings.

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The constitution supposes, what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.

The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, legislative, executive and judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. the legislative it has given completely to the senate and house of representatives. it has declared that the executive powers shall be vested in the president, submitting special articles of it to a negative by the senate, and it has vested the judiciary power in the courts of justice, with certain exceptions also in favor of the senate.

I was very, very concerned about president obama and how much executive order and how much executive power he tried to exert. but i think i want to be, and i think congress will be, a check on any executive, republican or democrat, that tries to grasp too much power. and really, a lot of the fault is not only presidents trying to take too much power, it's congress giving up too much power.

The constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... a delegation of such powers [to the president] would have struck, not only at the fabric of our constitution, but at the foundation of all well organized and well checked governments. the separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it, is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted.

In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. it is the province and duty of the executive to preserve to the nation the blessings of peace. the legislature alone can interrupt those blessings, by placing the nation in a state of war.

People at civil-liberties organizations say it's a sea change, and that it's very clear judges have begun to question more critically assertions made by the executive. even though it seems so obvious now, it is extraordinary in the context of the last decade, because courts had simply said they were not the best branch to adjudicate these claims - which is completely wrong, because they are the only nonpolitical branch. they are the branch that is specifically charged with deciding issues that cannot be impartially decided by politicians.

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