Rosa Luxemburg
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Sun Jul-15-07 11:18 PM
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The executive privilege why do we have it? |
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worse than Nixon, Bush and Cheney cover up their administration's wrong doings, stopping their people testifying, giving get out of jail free cards, stonewalling investigations etc.
Why does a constitution allow a mechanism for producing tyranny?
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Sun Jul-15-07 11:21 PM
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1. It's just a fancy name for a specific manifestation of the separation of powers... |
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... Do you need an explanation as to why we have *that*?
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lurky
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Sun Jul-15-07 11:33 PM
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2. It's not in the constitution, is it? |
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I thought it was just a meaningless phrase shouted by presidents on the ropes.
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Rosa Luxemburg
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Mon Jul-16-07 10:37 AM
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3. perhaps we should remove the executive branch altogether |
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Pelosi can become Prime Minister? How about that?
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