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Jan 14, 2009 · "Over the long term the view will come to be that President Bush was largely successful in restoring the full constitutional powers of the president as commander in chief...
HISTORY. An Unlikely Hardliner, George H. W. Bush Was Ready to Push Presidential Powers. Though he ended up seeking congressional approval for the Gulf War, Bush was unconvinced he needed...
This article will examine the assertions of constitutional power by President George W. Bush and argue that he established significant precedents that have enlarged the range of future presidential discretion.
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The legacy of George W. Bush remains, much like his 2000 election, a subject of profound controversy, and any truly objective evaluation will likely be years in the future. He entered office as one of only a handful Presidents to lose the nations popular vote. The election of 2000 and the Supreme Court case of Bush v. Gore remain two of the most co...
Within nine months of taking office, President Bush was afforded the chance to unite the nation after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. By most accounts, Bush did a masterful job of speaking for and to the American people. His crisis leadership, including insisting on returning to the White House the night of the attacks instead of holin...
Following an authorization from Congress to eliminate those who perpetrated the attacks of 9/11, Bush ordered an invasion of Afghanistan. The Taliban leadership was driven into the mountains and across the boarders into neighboring countries, including Pakistan. Those early successes, however, turned into the longest war in American history, and th...
On the domestic front, the Bush presidency scored early successes in gaining passage of large tax reductions and a major reform of the American educational system with the No Child Left Behind Act. The tax cuts, however, were not made permanent, as the President wished, and the bipartisan education reforms proved very controversial with their empha...
This paper will examine the assertions of constitutional power of President George W. Bush and argue that he established significant precedents that have enlarged the range of future presidential discretion.
May 1, 2006 · In recent judicial confirmation battles, President Bush has repeatedly — and correctly — stressed fidelity to the Constitution as the key qualification for service as a judge.
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My argument in this article is that Bush has married a rising theory of presidential power that received its impetus in the Nixon administration, and was more successfully implemented in the Reagan administration, to a set of policy ideas developed by American neoconservatives.
