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Lawyers Condemn Bush's Signing Statements
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President Bush should stop issuing statements claiming the power to bypass parts of laws he has signed, an American Bar Association task force has unanimously concluded in a strongly worded 32-page report that is scheduled to be released today. . . . The panel said presidents do not have the authority to declare that sections of the bills they sign are unconstitutional, and that they thus need not be enforced as Congress wrote them. Bush has used these so-called signing statements to challenge more than 750 laws that have been enacted since he took office, more than all previous presidents combined. (Boston Globe [1], Monday)
Expansion of presidential power is as old as the Constitution.
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[1] Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/07/24/panel_chides_bush_on_bypassing_laws/
[2] Thomas Jefferson: Liberty and Power: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=1739
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