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This small army of secretive, extra-constitutional, ideologically radicals, lacking Senate examination and confirmation are the unaccountable true agents of this radical president's radical agenda.
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To compound the confusion; in April 2007, President Bush issued an executive order National Security Presidential Directive-51 establishing an incredibly elaborate extra-constitutional “continuity of government commission” that was given authority to make decisions, including nuclear ones.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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Robert Spitzer, a political science professor who's written a book on the presidential veto, calls it "plainly extra-constitutional, utterly suspect, and completely unnecessary."
Obama Clarifies Pocket Veto Of Controversial Bill Related To Foreclosures The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Robert Spitzer, a political science professor who's written a book on the presidential veto, calls it "plainly extra-constitutional, utterly suspect, and completely unnecessary."
Obama Clarifies Pocket Veto Of Controversial Bill Related To Foreclosures Arthur Delaney 2010
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Robert Spitzer, a political science professor who's written a book on the presidential veto, calls it "plainly extra-constitutional, utterly suspect, and completely unnecessary."
Obama Clarifies Pocket Veto Of Controversial Bill Related To Foreclosures The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Robert Spitzer, a political science professor who's written a book on the presidential veto, calls it "plainly extra-constitutional, utterly suspect, and completely unnecessary."
Obama Clarifies Pocket Veto Of Controversial Bill Related To Foreclosures The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The only reasonable course of action would be some kind of extra-constitutional rule by presidential decree and it might be difficult or impossible to actually return to the rule of law.
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Muslims and Christians in Egypt have both suffered from the inconsistent implementation of justice that has grown out of a culture of rampant corruption, the abuse of extra-constitutional military trials and other breaches of rule of law.
Kurt J. Werthmuller: Getting Away With It: Egypt's Religious Minorities Need The Rule Of Law Kurt J. Werthmuller 2011
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Robert Spitzer, a political science professor who's written a book on the presidential veto, calls it "plainly extra-constitutional, utterly suspect, and completely unnecessary."
Obama Clarifies Pocket Veto Of Controversial Bill Related To Foreclosures The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Robert Spitzer, a political science professor who's written a book on the presidential veto, calls it "plainly extra-constitutional, utterly suspect, and completely unnecessary."
Obama Clarifies Pocket Veto Of Controversial Bill Related To Foreclosures Arthur Delaney 2010
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