‘Absolute power consolidated in one person’: a slippery slope to the end of checks and balances
President Donald Trump’s ongoing conflict with New York is the latest chapter in his broader assault on the system of checks ...
‘Absolute power’: How Stephanie Rawlings-Blake quashed reform of Baltimore’s strong mayor system
In 2015, five Baltimore City Council members proposed a bill that would have upended the mayor’s outsized power over spending ...
The absolute power of Gene Hackman, master of cinema’s fundamentals
Every one of Hackman’s films was unforgettable because every one of the actor’s performances demanded to be burned into your ...
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The Screwtape Letters: Applying what C.S. Lewis said about absolute power to Milwaukee’s moral landscape
At its core, “The Screwtape Letters” is a series of fictional epistles written by a senior demon named Screwtape to his ...
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‘Absolute power consolidated in one person’: a slippery slope to the end of checks and balances
getting closer to “absolute power consolidated in one person,” warns Kermit Roosevelt, constitutional law professor at Penn. While Congress appears to have consented to this takeover and ...