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Is congress AWOL? (Cover Story: Congress).(Cover Story)
While the Bush administration has aggressively strengthened the Executive Branch -- even to the detriment of liberty -- Congress has meekly surrendered its constitutional powers.
The Roman Republic produced no greater statesman than Cicero. A distinguished legal expert, republican patriot, and orator without peer, he had risen to his nation's highest office, that of Consul. Tragically, this great pillar of Roman virtue witnessed the end of the Republic he had loved. In those long-ago days, in the first century B.C., the old Rome was in its death throes, beset by faction between political parties and plagued by Conspiracies, like that of Catiline's, aiming for the ...
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