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...widest spectrum of antagonists ever put together on South African soil. Besides the African National Congress and the governing National Party, the talks included such ex-boycotters as the apartheid-forever Conservative Party and the black-power Pan Africanist Congress. The conferees reached agreement on the agenda's main item: a resumption by April 5 of formal talks on constitutional issues like power sharing. Said A.N.C. secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa: "A torch of hope has been...
During the era of divided government, conservatives developed an enormous and historically uncharacteristic enthusiasm for presidential power. Conservative legal scholars produced elaborate theories establishing to their own satisfaction that the independent counsel is unconstitutional; that the President not only needs but already has a line-item veto over congressional appropriations; and so on. This trend culminated in President Bush's breathtaking assertion -- never put to the test -- that he could send half a million American troops into battle halfway around the globe without so much as a nod to Congress's constitutional power to "declare...
...Constitution and the country by making a "grand bargain" between Congress and the White House. In foreign policy, the President should acknowledge and begin honoring Congress's war power. In domestic and budgetary policy, Congress should restore meaning to the President's veto power by giving him the line-item veto. Fair enough...
...line-item veto is also a matter of forcing a delinquent branch of government to take responsibility for its actions (or rather, its inactions). In this case, the guilty party is the Executive Branch. For 12 years we have been hearing from Presidents that the budget deficit is the legislature's fault because "Congress appropriates every dime." That's true. But Presidents submit an annual budget, and neither Bush nor Ronald Reagan ever came close to submitting a balanced...
...point when they say the legislature has eviscerated the President's constitutional veto power by submitting gigantic, combination-platter spending bills, often at the last minute. The President then has a Hobson's choice of signing on to the whole thing or shutting down the government. The line-item veto, which 43 Governors (including the Governor of Arkansas) have in one form or another, would give the President authority to approve or disapprove individual spending proposals. It would also, thereby, deny him the luxury of blaming Congress for excessive spending...