Bush should be considered the worst president to date based upon his frequent use of signing statements. He has used over 130 signing statements containing over 750 challenges on legislation within his term and a half in the White House. By using a signing statement, he states that he has the power to set aside laws when they conflict his with interpretation of the Constitution. Or as an editorial in the New York Times stated when comparing him to other presidents:
"And none have used it so clearly to make the president the interpreter of a law's intent, instead of Congress, and the arbiter of constitutionality, instead of the courts."
What he is in fact doing is destroying the very system of check and balances that have made this government work. His actions are destroying the delicate balance designed by the Constitution to equalize power between three distinct areas of the United States government.
Should the president have the right to change our system of governement?
2007-02-03
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