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A Different Take On Watergate

6. Guest Constitutional Scholar Essayists, 90 in 90 2016, John Marini 6. Presidential Elections and Their Constitutional Impact, 13. Guest Constitutional Scholar Essayists, A Different Take On Watergate, John Marini

Guest Essayist: John Marini

The American Mind with Charles R. Kesler: Presented by The Claremont Institute. Originally published on Jan 30, 2014 in the third segment with University of Nevada Reno Professor John Marini, Marini and Kesler discuss President Nixon and his losing battle with Washington bureaucracies. Used with permission.

PRESIDENT NIXON VS. THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE. An Interview with John Marini

John: You have to begin to see what Nixon’s plan was after the election, and there you get a better sense of his view that this is the last time that we’re going to be able to take on the centralized bureaucratic apparatus and be able to hold it back.

Charles: John, if Richard Nixon were a character in a western, who would he be? Simon Legree?

1928, The Effects Of Urbanization On The U. S. And Its Implications For Constitutional Government

6. Guest Constitutional Scholar Essayists, 90 in 90 2016, Scot Faulkner 6. Presidential Elections and Their Constitutional Impact, 13. Guest Constitutional Scholar Essayists, 1928 The Effects Of Urbanization On The U. S. And Its Implications For Constitutional Government, Scot Faulkner

Guest Essayist: Scot Faulkner

How Urbanism Forever Changed America

The 1928 Presidential Election remains the zenith of Republican political power. Republican Herbert Hoover crushed Democrat Al Smith, winning 58 percent of the popular vote and 83 percent of the electoral vote. [1] The landslide was fueled by years of prosperity, affection for outgoing President Calvin Coolidge, and deep seated concerns over Smith’s Catholicism. Republicans also amassed majorities in the House and Senate not seen again until 2014.

1912, Eugene Debs’ Socialism And The U. S. Constitution

6. Guest Constitutional Scholar Essayists, 90 in 90 2016, Joerg W. Knipprath 6. Presidential Elections and Their Constitutional Impact, 13. Guest Constitutional Scholar Essayists, 17. Topics, 1912 Eugene Debs’ Socialism And The U. S. Constitution, Joerg W. Knipprath, Progressive, Socialism, Supreme Court

Guest Essayist: Professor Joerg Knipprath

Dissenting from the Supreme Court’s 1905 opinion in Lochner v. New York that found unconstitutional a maximum-hour law for bakery employees, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., declared, “[A] constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory, whether of paternalism and the organic relation of the citizen to the State or of laissez faire.” Holmes’s point is valid at least to the extent that the Framers–most of whom adhered to the then-dominant mercantilism–did not encrypt the grand contours of a particular system of political economy in the Constitution’s provisions aligning and balancing individual liberties and governmental powers. Yet, the Constitution also protects personal rights whose exercise is more likely to be realized in a political system premised on fundamentally liberal (in the classic meaning) conceptions of the role of the government and the individual’s relationship to the State than in a system that rests on a different view of such essential matters.

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