by Washington Examiner September 17, 2018
If you watched last week, you might have noticed that Democrats spent a lot of Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearing browbeating him over his apparent belief in something called the "unitary executive.”
So what is that? Although there do exist some ridiculous versions of “unitary executive theory,” the correctly understood idea of the unitary executive is the only possible and reasonable interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.
Article II, Section One begins thus: “The executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America.” That’s all there is to it............. So, when people speak of the power of the bureaucracy, or "the deep state," or even the “stable state,” they refer to an illegitimate and unconstitutional exercise of power. The entire executive branch mission is derived from the president's constitutional mission to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." ...........If you fear an over-powerful executive, you should be afraid of Kavanaugh’s questioners, not of Kavanaugh himself.............To Read More....
So what is that? Although there do exist some ridiculous versions of “unitary executive theory,” the correctly understood idea of the unitary executive is the only possible and reasonable interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.
Article II, Section One begins thus: “The executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America.” That’s all there is to it............. So, when people speak of the power of the bureaucracy, or "the deep state," or even the “stable state,” they refer to an illegitimate and unconstitutional exercise of power. The entire executive branch mission is derived from the president's constitutional mission to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." ...........If you fear an over-powerful executive, you should be afraid of Kavanaugh’s questioners, not of Kavanaugh himself.............To Read More....
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