Pruning Shears

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

- FEDERALIST No. 51

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Since 2001, there has been a nearly unprecedented expansion of executive power in the United States government. Our constitution was crafted deliberately to maintain a system of checks and balances on all three branches of government.  This blog serves to make the issue of executive power the main issue in the forthcoming 2008 presidential debates.

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