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by presidential powers Superhuman abilities lawmaker style right All the

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following have strengthened presidential powers except what Eventually All right

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well what doesn't kill you makes you stronger right So

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quick Named five former speakers of the house Great Then

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pass Go and collect two hundred dollars Well james madison

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our nation's forthe president feared that the house of representatives

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would dominate the presidency but the executive branch is far

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outgrown the legislative one in terms of power and visibility

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at least today we're presidential power strength and over time

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by a the parent unity of the office Well yeah

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because there's only one president there's a consistency of message

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that comes out of sixteen hundred pennsylvania avenue Congress on

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the other hand has five hundred thirty five different voices

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all kroq ing about five hundred thirty five different agendas

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Good presidential powers have been strengthened by c myers versus

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united states in nineteen twenty six Meyers be us ruled

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that congress can't really prevent the president from removing appointed

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officials from office Sion are sea level student of bureaucracy

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where presidential power strengthened by d national emergencies such as

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war and depression Well when things get really bad people's

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first impulse isn't to get out there and do something

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it's turn on the tv and see whether the president

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is getting out there doing something that whole face of

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the crisis thing especially with the rise of twenty four

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hour news and the internet has delivered a lot of

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visibility to the office All right what about e america's

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Increasing role in international affairs America's gotten pretty comfortable in

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the diplomatic driver's seat over the last century and the

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president has become a negotiator in chief of all sorts

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of world stage foreign affairs So if e has also

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expanded the dimensions of the oval office well then that

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means that presidential powers were not strengthened by be clinton

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v new york city in clinton the new york city

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The supreme court struck down the line item veto a

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mechanism that gave the president the power to cross out

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individual parts of a federal budget Not the whole thing

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Being able to eliminate individual parts of the budget gave

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the president more power over spending So this ruling limited

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the growth of the offices powers That makes be the

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correct answer Well efforts to restrain the presidency have come

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from both the legislative and judicial branches proof that the

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whole checks and balances thing really does try Toe weigh 00:02:30.11 --> [endTime] the pros and the cons

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