AspieUtah wrote:
As of Feburary, the president has played 219 rounds of golf since he assumed office.
As of July 2014, he has spent $44,351,777.12 of tax-payer dollars on travel and vacation since he assumed office.
Also, as of July 2014, he is tied with President George W. Bush with time away from office due to travel and vacation.
Let’s remember that former President Nixon said that “when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt tried to “pack the court” by expanding the number of U.S. Supreme Court appointments to as many as 15 judges, thereby giving him an advantage of being the first president to appoint the extra justices.
During the Civil War, President Lincoln suspended the legal provisions of writs of habeas corpus, and, by doing so, prevented prisoners of war, spies, traitors and imprisoned military personnel the ability to go to court and learn why they had been imprisoned. He later published his Executive Order “Arrest and Imprisonment of Irresponsible Newspaper Reporters and Editors” so that he could intimidate and arrest (again, without the right of habeas corpus) those reporters and editors who disagreed with him.
Sooo, the U.S. government, despite being being a constitutional republic, has been abused throughout its history by many of its presidents who had acted like kings even if they weren’t. Most surprisingly, their cohorts, many federal judges and citizens did nothing to stop them.
It apparently hasn't mattered that our Constitution for the United States of America prohibits kings having any authority in the nation, we have had presidents who acted outside the Constitution (virtual kings). By any other name, they have been and are kings.
"Kings Nothing," in my opinion since they frequently exercise authority that neither I nor our Constitution delegated to them.
I'm not going to condemn Lincoln for such "offenses," as he was fighting a war to save the unity of the country, and in which ultimately, the evil of slavery was abolished. Sometimes the ends do justify the means.
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-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer