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Presidential Mandates and the Need for Push-Back

Ruin has been the legacy of power-intoxicated Chief Executives and their regimes throughout American history. Lyndon Johnson used his "mandate" to broaden the welfare state and wage war in Vietnam on an ever-expanding scale. Richard Nixon, after his stomping win over George McGovern, claimed he should be left alone about the Watergate scandals, telling America in a speech, "Your votes were a mandateâ€¦ to complete the initiatives we began in my first term and to fulfill the promises I made for the second term."

Scary, disastrous stuff.

The miserable history of presidential mandates shows how important it is that the Constitution's checks and balances be taken seriously. Presidents near-drunk with the hubris of the mandate-mentality require much push-back. ...

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1/4/13 8:20 PM

Jennifer

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add the mandate mess that got us into Iraq.

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