While the reforms had the desired effect of lessening the administrative power of the president it did so by making political institutions more bureaucratic. ... He claimed that according to the Constitution, the power to declare war is not in the hands of the President but in those of Congress. ... This assault on the national government was carried out to protect the power of local communities. ... Their goal was to reduce the power and influence of political organizations and instead they favored a national administrative power. ... As a possible solution to this dilemma Milkis proposes t...

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America has come a long way since its Independence. Throughout her history she has gone through a number of changes. One of these periods in which number of reforms took place was the during the period between 1870- 1914 five political parties dominated the American politics of that time. These par...

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The idea of a parliamentary system over something such as a presidential system would promote the idea of shared power, where no one person has sole control over the nation, and therefore no one group controls either. The composition of this governing body should be representative of the population, and a system of checks and balances should be imposed so that no one religious or ethnic group can gain power to control the others. ...

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It also said that the government could use "fiscal policy, it power of taxing and spending, to stimulate the economy"(Schulman 36)... (9) In order to prove himself worthy of presidential office, LBJ pushed two landmark pieces of legislation in the 1950's. ...

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