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Jefferson v. Trump on Executive Power

In a comment to a recent essay on Jefferson, “Jefferson on Executive Action,” an Abbevillian wrote: Can’t put Biden anywhere near Jefferson. Trump. On the other hand, seems to be acting more, much more, in the interest of saving our Republic—whether he is aware of it or not. While no where near as eloquent as Jefferson—his presidential library may not…
M. Andrew Holowchak
April 18, 2025
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Jefferson on Executive Action

Jefferson was ever committed to tripartite governmental powers, comprising an executive, the legislature, and the judiciary. Each branch, he asserts to George Wythe (July 1776), should be independent of the others to offer itself as a check on the others. The independence of the executive from the legislative is of utmost importance, for otherwise the executive might have undue influence…
M. Andrew Holowchak
February 21, 2025
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Happy Worst Presidents Day

Originally published at LewRockwell.com A 64-year-old woman with deep family roots in Alabama recently said to me that she was taught in Alabama public school that Abraham Lincoln was “the best president ever.”  That would be a good example of the consequences of what the New England Yankee conquerors labeled “reconstruction.”  The truth is that Lincoln was by far the…
Thomas DiLorenzo
February 18, 2025