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**SQiTmhuY** · 08-10-2010, 08:06 PM

So, it's monarch-like powers, except for, what, elections?

No, it's Commander in Chief powers. The President doesn't have the authority to dictate legislation; nor does he have the authority to decide judicial cases. (And so on and so forth.)

What impeachability, since this is all apparently legal? Impeachment and removal is a political judgment -- as demonstrated recently by the Clinton impeachment trial. It certainly stands as a check on over-reaching by the executive.

So, let me get this straight: You believe that Thomas Jefferson acted illegally in militarily holding prisoners captured in the Barbary Wars and not submitting them to either a criminal conviction in the domestic courts or release?

08-10-2010, 08:06 PM	#34
SQiTmhuY Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 500 Senior Member	So, it's monarch-like powers, except for, what, elections? No, it's Commander in Chief powers. The President doesn't have the authority to dictate legislation; nor does he have the authority to decide judicial cases. (And so on and so forth.) What impeachability, since this is all apparently legal? Impeachment and removal is a political judgment -- as demonstrated recently by the Clinton impeachment trial. It certainly stands as a check on over-reaching by the executive. So, let me get this straight: You believe that Thomas Jefferson acted illegally in militarily holding prisoners captured in the Barbary Wars and not submitting them to either a criminal conviction in the domestic courts or release?
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