Powers of the President
Here's an excellent example of how the powers of the president are limited and not unending. In the article Congress checks the power of the Excutive Branch by eliminating the threat of a presidential veto by the overwhelming support for an override of a veto.
President Relents, Backs Torture Ban
On an AP test, your free responses will bring two or more units together and force you to respond a bit differently than we typically do in class. Eg. Essays on Constitution, or Congress, or President. Here you have a contemporary example of checks and balances (Constitutional), powers of Congress (Legislative) and powers of the President (Executive). When you are asked to provide support,the more current of an example you can provide the better. I'm not saying this would be on the AP test (I'm sure the test is already written) but this would be a great example of info you'd be expected to be able to provide.
Have a great weekend. Thanks for the 12 presentations today.
Mr. Thompson
posted by erdecker @ 1:49 PM
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I want to comment on this subject, because I support certain forms of torture, but I have voiced my opinion multiple times already so I won't... I'm glad a Republican congress has over-ruled their Republican president proving their not in Bush's pocket. I think the Republicans in congress are ready to get Bush out of there.
McCain '08!
I like that that the language of the ammendment puts responsibility on the person who is actually carrying out the torture. They shouldn't be able to hide behind an order.
Also, I applaud McCain for being an anti-torture extremist as Martin Luther King Jr. might say. He is not willing to compromise and allow some torture in certain situations. He wants it all to end and to end now.
"We've come a long way as a country since 9/11, and this development is a sign of that," said Tom Malinowski, Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch. "We've gone from a sense of 'anything goes' to a recognition that torture hurts America even more than it hurts the enemy."
wow! this comment really shocked me. So all the innocent killings in Iraq for the past years have been apart of this "anything goes" type of thing....has there been some type of toruring elastic clause we all didn't know about... hm....and how long did it take to find out that hurting foreign civilians would make us look bad? a leap forward? more like a leap into reality that our country was founded on freedom and domocracy for all (not just our citizens) and our country should represent that
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