Executive Power

Presidential Powers 2: Crash Course Government and Politics #12

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Duration: 7:53
Updated: 17 Apr 2015
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This week Craig continues our conversation on presidential powers by looking at those NOT found in the Constitution - implied or inherent powers. We’ll talk about how the president uses his or her power to negotiate executive agreements, recommend legislative initiatives, instate executive orders, impound funds, and claim executive privilege in order to get things done. Implied powers are kind of tough to tack down, as they aren’t really powers until they’re asserted, but once the they are, most subsequent presidents chose not to give them up. So we’ll try to cover those we’ve seen so far and talk a little bit about reactions to these sometimes controversial actions from the other branches of Congress. Support is provided by Voqal: http://www.voqal.org This episode is sponsored by Squarespace: http://www.squarespace.com/crashcourse Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Tumblr - http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support Crash Course on Patreon: http://patreon.com/crashcourse CC Kids: http://www.youtube.com/crashcoursekids

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Presidential Power: Crash Course Government and Politics #11

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Duration: 6:30
Updated: 11 Apr 2015
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This week Craig looks at the expressed powers of the President of the United States - that is the ones you can find in the Constitution. From appointing judges and granting pardons, to vetoing laws and acting as the nation’s chief diplomat on foreign policy, the Commander in Chief is a pretty powerful person, but actually not as powerful as you might think. The Constitution also limits presidential powers to maintain balance among the three branches of government. Next week we'll talk about the president's powers NOT mentioned in the Constitution - implied powers. Support is provided by Voqal: http://www.voqal.org This episode is sponsored by Squarespace: http://www.squarespace.com/crashcourse -- Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Tumblr - http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support Crash Course on Patreon: http://patreon.com/crashcourse CC Kids: http://www.youtube.com/crashcoursekids

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The Growing Power of the Presidency

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Duration: 12:50
Updated: 22 Jan 2014
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"Obama is doing many of the same dangerous things that Bush did," says Chris Edelson, assistant professor at American University, referencing what he considers President Obama's broad interpretation of executive power. He points to Obama's unilateral military intervention in Libya and his defense of the National Security Agency's data collection on American citizens as just two examples of executive over-reach. "What's ironic about that is Obama is a constitutional lawyer and scholar by background." However, President Obama is not the first president to expand the powers of the presidency. Edelson explains the historical precedents of expansive executive power in his new book, Emergency Presidential Powers: From the Drafting of the Constitution to the War on Terror. Edelson recently sat down with Reason TV's Nick Gillespie to discuss the growth of presidential powers, how presidents use national security threats to seize more control, why Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus differs from current claims of executive authority, and if it is even possible to keep the executive branch in check. About 12 minutes. Produced by Amanda Winkler. Camera by Winkler and Joshua Swain. Subscribe to Reason TV's YouTube channel to get automatic notifications when new material go live.

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Obama's Executive Power Grab

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Duration: 4:19
Updated: 08 Apr 2015
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Ben Shapiro takes a look at President Obama's troubling grab for power through executive action on everything from immigration to foreign policy and even gun rights.

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Article II for Dummies: The Executive Branch Explained

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Duration: 15:10
Updated: 07 Oct 2012
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Hip Hughes History lays down the tracks for the train of learning. So jump aboard and learn the essentials of Executive Power through Article II of the US Constitution. The Constitution Explained Series. 48 Videos, 6.5 Hours Long. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi3U-nPPrbS5d-juhFwo3hTBso0gq2sUZ

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Executive Power S

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Duration: 3:55
Updated: 19 Sep 2014
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Suspension

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U.S.A Government Of One? - Obama Brags About Using Executive Power - Trey Gowdy On The Record

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Duration: 6:31
Updated: 18 Feb 2014
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Pirro: Are You Going To Stop Funding To Obama's Pet Projects? Trey Gowdy: Blank Right We Going To Do It U.S.A Government Of One? - Obama Brags About Using Executive Power - Trey Gowdy On The Record Continues On This Video Bellow HHS Won't Say If Sec Sebelius Is Fund Raising For Obamacare New Accusations Sebelius Is Shaking Down Companies For $ - Investigating Obamacare - On The Record http://youtu.be/PkXeX9BhNKs =========================================== **Please Click Below to SUBSCRIBE for More "Mass Tea Party" Videos: http://goo.gl/Z5ShLs ===========================================

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How Obama pushed the legal limits of his executive power

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Duration: 2:53
Updated: 11 Nov 2015
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Kevin Corke reports on the far-reaching policy implications on 'Special Report' Watch Bret Baier and Kevin Corke talk about Executive Branch and Law on Special Report.

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Constitutional View: The Founders on Executive Power

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Duration: 2:38
Updated: 03 Mar 2016
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Under the Constitution, the president was delegated the authority to execute laws passed by Congress, not create them with the stroke of a pen.

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How Presidents Govern: Crash Course Government and Politics #14

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Duration: 9:23
Updated: 01 May 2015
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This week Craig Benzine talks about how the president gets things done. Filling the role of the executive branch is a pretty big job - much too big for just one person. It's so big that the president employs an entire federal bureaucracy! Today, we’re just going to focus on those closest to the president, like the vice president, the Cabinet, and the Executive Office of the President. We’ll figure out which strategy is most useful in helping the president make things happen and we’ll discuss the controversy around the president’s gradual increase in power. Oh, and as many of you noticed - last episode eagle got off too easy. Let’s see if we can make it up to you. Support is provided by Voqal: http://www.voqal.org Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Tumblr - http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support Crash Course on Patreon: http://patreon.com/crashcourse CC Kids: http://www.youtube.com/crashcoursekids

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Executive Power and the War on Terror

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Duration: 59:04
Updated: 31 Jan 2008
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Nationally renowned legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky discusses executive power and the war on terror at the UC Davis School of Law. While some scholars have defended the Bush administrations claim to broad executive authority as part of the war on terrorism, Chemerinsky believes those claims are wrong in terms of the history and functions of the Constitution and separation of powers. [3/2006] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 11531]

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Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances: Crash Course Government and Politics #3

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Duration: 8:31
Updated: 07 Feb 2015
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In which Craig Benzine teaches you about the US Governments Separation of powers and the system of checks and balances. In theory, the Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Brach are designed to keep each other in check, and to keep any branch from becoming too powerful. In reality, the system was designed to keep the president from becoming some kind of autocrat. For the most part, it has worked. Craig will call in the clones to explain which powers belong to which branches, and to reveal some secret perks that the Supreme Court justices enjoy. Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Support is provided by Voqal: http://www.voqal.org Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Tumblr - http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Instagram - http://instagram.com/thecrashcourse

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Executive Power & Gun Control

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Duration: 2:39
Updated: 17 Jan 2016
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Professor Josh Blackman of the South Texas College of Law/Houston explains President Obama’s executive actions concerning gun control. As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker. Related links: Obama's New Gun Control Rules Giving the President's action "the business" By John C. Eastman http://www.fed-soc.org/blog/detail/obamas-new-gun-control-rules New York Times article: Obama to Expand Gun Background Checks and Tighten Enforcement By Michael D. Shear and Eric Lichtblauy http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/05/us/politics/obama-says-he-will-act-on-gun-control-in-coming-days.html PBS Newshour: The nuance you may have missed in Obama’s gun control plan By Julie Percha http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/whats-the-difference-between-an-executive-order-and-action/ Article: Obama Set To Implement Gun Control By Executive Order This Week http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/04/obama-set-to-implement-gun-control-by-executive-order-this-week/ Article: Barack Obama’s executive actions on gun control are meaningless By Elliot Fineman http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-executive-actions-gun-control-meaningless-article-1.2484259 Article: Obama’s Long Game on Guns By Josh Blackman http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429303/obamas-guns-executive-action-opens-door-state-action Article: A Look at the Facts on Gun-Free Zones By John Lott http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425802/gun-free-zones-don't-save-lives-right-to-carry-laws-do

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Obama's Audacious Executive Power In His Final Year

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Duration: 9:59
Updated: 20 Jan 2016
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Conservatism And Executive Power

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Duration: 116:45
Updated: 08 Mar 2016
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How should conservatives think about executive power? For the last seven years, conservatives have largely criticized President Obama for asserting presidential and administrative power in lieu of — even contrary to — federal statutes. But during the Bush Administration, conservatives tended to be more solicitous toward executive power, while those on the left were more critical. Nor was this question well settled in the past: in the mid-20th century, conservatives largely promoted congressional power over executive power; in the 1970s and 1980s, the reverse. Our present moment — less than nine months from the presidential election, and eleven months from the inauguration — provides an ideal moment for conservatives to think about the proper place of executive power in our constitutional government. The presidential candidates themselves embrace diverse views of presidential power. And just as we cannot know for certain who will occupy the White House a year from now, nor can we know which political party will control Congress. Even the third branch, the Supreme Court, is suddenly in flux. Senator Mike Lee and colleagues in Congress have begun a national conversation on these questions by unveiling the “Article I Project”, an effort to reinvigorate Congress’s role among the three branches of government on matters of federal policy, administration, the “power of the purse,” and the Constitution. Earlier this month, the “A1P” issued its first report, “The Case for Congressional Empowerment.” On March 7 in Washington, D.C., the Hoover Institution convened a discussion on precisely these questions. First, a panel of experts, featuring voices from both sides of the political aisle, will discuss these questions. Then a conversation with Sen. Lee himself, to discuss his new project, and to discuss more directly benefits and drawbacks of executive power in modern government.

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Obama on "Executive Powers"

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Duration: 0:16
Updated: 07 Nov 2011
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Obama says our worst problem is Bush went overboard on Executive Power. Then does MUCH worst than Bush

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Dennis The Constitutional Peasant

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Duration: 3:11
Updated: 12 Apr 2008
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 film about King Arthur and his knights who embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles. Dennis The Constitutional Peasant Dennis: What I object to is you automatically treatin' me like an inferior. Arthur: Well, I am king. Dennis: Oh, king, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, then? By exploiting the workers! By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society! If there's ever going to be any progress-- Dennis: We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as sort-of-executive officer for the week-- Arthur: Yes. Dennis: But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting-- Arthur: Yes, I see. Dennis: By a simple majority, in the case of purely internal affairs-- Arthur: [getting annoyed] Be quiet. Dennis: But by a two thirds majority, in the case of more major-- Arthur: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet! Dennis' Mother: Order, eh? Who does he think he is? Arthur: I am your king! Dennis' Mother: Well I didn't vote for you. Arthur: You don't vote for kings! Dennis' Mother: Well how'd you become king, then? Arthur: The Lady of the Lake,... [Angel chorus begins singing in background] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [Angel chorus ends] That is why I am your king! Dennis: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Arthur: Be quiet! Dennis: You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! Arthur: Shut up! Dennis: I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away! Arthur: Shut up; will you SHUT UP?! [Grabs Dennis and shakes him] Dennis: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system! Arthur: SHUT UP! Dennis: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!! Arthur: BLOODY PEASANT! releases Dennis and walks away as other peasents come to see what's going on] Dennis: Oh, what a giveaway. Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm all about! Did you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?

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Hearing on Limits of Executive Power: Vincent Bugliosi

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Duration: 6:44
Updated: 25 Jul 2008
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Vincent Bugliosi's opening statements during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the constitutional limits of executive power.

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A debate over executive power: Obama’s immigration decision

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Duration: 74:13
Updated: 12 Jan 2015
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Did President Obama’s executive order on immigration exceed his constitutional authority? The White House has claimed prosecutorial discretion as the basis for its decision, while critics, especially members of Congress, argue that the president is ignoring his core executive function of enforcing existing laws. Obama’s exercise of discretion raises the question of whether this is a reasonable interpretation of his constitutional obligation to faithfully execute laws or a violation of that duty. Recent presidents, regardless of their party affiliation, have regularly been accused of acting imperially. If the imperial presidency is now a feature of the American political system, arguably due in part to the demands of modern governing, how should citizens understand the president’s role today? Please join us at AEI as two distinguished political commentators discuss President Obama’s recent executive action on immigration and the related constitutional and political issues. Subscribe to AEI's YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/AEIVideos?sub_confirmation=1 Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AEIonline Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AEI For more Information http://www.aei.org A debate over executive power: Obama's immigration

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Machiavelli’s Virtue, A Guide to Political Philosophy, Modern Executive Power (2005)

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Updated: 02 Mar 2015
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Harvey Claflin Mansfield, Jr. (born 1932) is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1962. He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center; he also received the National Humanities Medal in 2004 and delivered the Jefferson Lecture in 2007. He is a Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is notable for his generally conservative stance on political issues in his writings. Mansfield is the author and co-translator of studies of and/or by major political philosophers such as Aristotle, Edmund Burke, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Thomas Hobbes, of Constitutional government, and of Manliness (2006). In interviews Mansfield has acknowledged the work of Leo Strauss as the key modern influence on his own political philosophy.[1] Among his most notable former students include: Andrew Sullivan,[2] Alan Keyes, William Kristol,[3] Clifford Orwin, Paul Cantor, Delba Winthrop, Mark Lilla, Francis Fukuyama, and Shen Tong. Books Statesmanship and Party Government: A Study of Burke and Bolingbroke. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965. The Spirit of Liberalism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979. Rpt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Thomas Jefferson: Selected Writings. Ed. and introd. Wheeling, IL: H. Davidson, 1979. Selected Letters of Edmund Burke. Ed. with introd. entitled "Burke's Theory of Political Practice". Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli. Trans. and introd. 2nd (corr.) ed. 1985; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. (Inc. glossary.) Florentine Histories, by Niccolò Machiavelli. Ed., trans. and introd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. (Co-trans. and co-ed., Laura F. Banfield.) Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power. New York: The Free Press, 1989. America's Constitutional Soul. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Machiavelli’s Virtue. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Discourses on Livy, by Niccolò Machiavelli. Trans. and introd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. (Co-trans., Nathan Tarcov.) Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville. Trans. and introd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. (Co-trans., Delba Winthrop.) A Student’s Guide to Political Philosophy. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2001. Manliness. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mansfield

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Past presidents' use of executive power

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Updated: 21 Nov 2014
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Controversy surrounds President Obama's immigration plan, but he's not the first president to flex his executive muscle.

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Fireside: Growing executive power

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Duration: 3:36
Updated: 13 May 2011
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The system of checks and balances has been nearly demolished in our country, especially when it comes to the expansion of the executive branch. And Obama has turned out to be, one of the worst offenders. Not only has this president unilaterally decided to get us into a war in Libya, or that he can place American citizens on an assassination list, he's also signed an executive order to create a formal policy for indefinite detention. So we can keep holding people without any regard for the law, for as long as he wants. But what we've seen this week, goes farther...much farther. In some cases, he's asked for Congressional approval, or asked the courts, but it's pretty safe to say neither one will say no to the Commander in Chief. This week Obama asked Congress to extend the normally 10 year limit on the position of FBI director for another two years.

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