Unconstitutionality, Unconstitutional Acts, Unconstitutional Behavior Quotes
Bush, more so than any other president, claimed executive powers that had never been claimed by other presidents even in wartime. At the time the senator made this statement, the Supreme Court had ruled against the President on several of his claims and others were pending. The powers ranged from the right to hold even American Citizens incommunicado without filing any charges or going before a court or even allowing a court to review the action if the President Claims the person was an “enemy combatant” or “terrorist”; to the right to spy on American Citizens phone calls in America without any court review and even went so far as to claim the right to question Americans or other suspected enemies by methods that are classified as “torture” by most nations and is even illegal by the American Military Regulations for interrogating prisoners.
Ashmun introduced this anti-war resolution during the Mexican War. This resolution failed, but Abraham Lincoln, then a Freshman Congressman voted for it
Actually it was Thomas Jefferson who had drafted most of the language. This attack was aimed at President John Adams, the big supporter of the unpopular Alien and Sedition laws, and the man Jefferson was intent on unseating at the end of his first term. He did and destroyed the Federalist Party in the process.
at the NSA collection of every American’s private e-mails, phone calls, and other digital communications. Referring to the NSA program of collecting information on all electronic communications of all American Citizens. See {636963} for more on the case.
Marshall did not crate this concept or some its phraseology out of whole cloth. See Rufus King {610245} for a Constitutional Convention basis for the statement.
The questioned policy was that of the NSA collecting metadata on virtually all phone and other electronic communications made in or into the United States. The issue of the unconstitutionality was not then settled, with some federal courts and bodies saying Yes and other saying No.
Jefferson was worried that the Federal Government would get too expansive and justify almost any activity using the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. In this example, he goes from the responsibility for National Defense which is clearly Federal down to the hiring of the miners to produce the copper to arm the ships and shipbuilding which he thought were NOT legitimate Federal activities. He was right in the sense that the Commerce Clause did justify major Federal expansion, but at the times of the expansions and now most Americans thought that the expansions were useful and necessary. Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were on opposite sides of the degree of expansion that was desirable.
Kennedy hated Roosevelt who had forced him to resign as the U. S. Ambassador to England. Kennedy was an admirer of Mussolini and Hitler. He had allied himself with the part of the British aristocracy that was pro Fascist and opposed Winston Churchill and the democratic element in Britain. Kennedy had opposed aid to Britain to fight Hitler and advised all who would listen that Britain could and would not stand up to Germany. Roosevelt’s support of Britain with Lend Lease and other means proved Kennedy wrong pragmatically and Kennedy’s own statements had forever proved him wrong morally. Although Kennedy opposed our entry in WWII, his sons did not. His oldest son volunteered for a very dangerous mission and was killed. Kennedy blamed his death on Roosevelt {616651} and forever after slandered FDR whenever he got a chance until his son Jack got into politics when his ambition for his son outweighed his hatred.
The Supreme Court had ruled several of the New Deal programs unconstitutional.
