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Signing away our Constitution: the Bush administration, using signing statements as tools of legislation, has recently claimed the power to open our mail without a warrant.(PRESIDENCY)
In his letters concerning "An Examination of the Constitution of the United States" that appeared in the Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer from September 26-29, 1788, the early American industrialist Tench Coxe--who also served as a delegate to the Continental Congress--noted that the president's power regarding legislation "amounts to no more, than a serious duty imposed upon him to request both houses to reconsider any matter on which he entertains doubts or feels apprehensions."
In this opinion Coxe was in keeping with the Founding Fathers generally, who held that the president exercised only a negative power over legislation. This was described by Alexander ...
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