¹ "Myers v. United States," Oyez: US Supreme Court Media, available online at: http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1924/1924_2/

² Christopher Lee, "Big Government Gets Bigger," WashingtonPost.com, 6 October 2006, available online at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006100501782.html

³ The History Place: American Revolution, available online at: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/rev-nation.htm

⁴ Spartacus: US Army, available online at: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAarmy.htm

⁵ CRS Report for Congress, 24 January 2006, available online at: http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:mqtK-wPbVewJ:www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs/rs21754.pdf+US+total+armed+forces&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=18&gl=us

⁶ Federal Government Website, http://www.bestplacestowork.org/BPTW/rankings/agency.php?code=ST00&q=scores_large

⁷ War Powers Resolution, 7 November 1973, available online at: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/warpower.asp

⁸ Charlie Savage, "Bush Challenges Hundreds of Laws," The Boston Globe, 30 April 2006, available online at: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws/

⁹ Quoted in The Nation, 18 August 2006, available online at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/112289

¹⁰ Mark Hanna, available online at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/1900/peopleevents/pande31.html

¹¹ Quoted in "United States Senate: Biography of John Nance Garner," available online at: http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/artifact/Painting_31_00007.htm

¹² William Spragens, Popular Images of American Presidents (Westwood, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 1988) 360

¹³ Quoted in Mark Hertsgaard, On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988) excerpts available online at: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ronald_Reagan/On_Bended_Knee.html

¹⁴ Quoted in Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (New York: Anchor Books, 2007), 191.

¹⁵ Quoted in Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (New York: Anchor Books, 2007), 207.

¹⁶ Mark Hanne available online at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/1900/peopleevents/pande31.html

¹⁷ George Edwards, III, Martin Wattenberg, Robert Lineberry, Government in America: People, Politics, and Policy (New York: Longman Press, 2002), 394.

¹⁸ Lyndon Johnson, available online at: http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/Events.hom/ampresidency.shtm

¹⁹ Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Foley, The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia (Funk and Wagnalls, 1900), 717, available online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=icGh3NxREIIC&pg=RA3-PA717&lpg=RA3-PA717&dq=jefferson+presidency+reputation&source=web&ots=xOzhnO1IKD&sig=ku9i5iS_oqu6TQLYBL_pI1dQywA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result

²⁰ William Spragens, Popular Images of American Presidents (Westwood, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1988) 360; Nieman Watchdog, 4 November 2004, available online at: http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=0069

²¹ Patrick Cox, "John Nance Garner on the Vice Presidency: In Search of the Proverbial Bucket," available online at: http://www.cah.utexas.edu/news/press_release.php?press=press_bucket