{"id":26689,"date":"2014-07-04T08:37:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T13:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26689"},"modified":"2014-07-04T08:37:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T13:37:19","slug":"reason-tv-presidential-power-and-the-rise-of-american-monarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/04\/reason-tv-presidential-power-and-the-rise-of-american-monarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Reason.tv<\/em> &#8211; Presidential Power and the Rise of American Monarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pKHZ1rhyZLI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 3 Jul 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;America is dropping like a stone in rankings of freedom. As power accumulates in one person, expect that to continue,&#8221; says Frank Buckley, George Mason University law professor and author of the new book, <em>The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Buckley sat down with <em>Reason TV<\/em>&#8216;s Tracy Oppenheimer to discuss how the U.S. presidency has evolved into what he calls &#8220;something like an elective monarch.&#8221; He says that this is not what the framers of the Constitution had intended, nor did they conceive of the modern version of the separation of powers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A parliamentary regime was more or less what the framers wanted&#8230;as far as the separation of powers is concerned,&#8221; says Buckley &#8220;instead of a device to constrain a president, it&#8217;s one which immunizes him from criticism by Congress.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 3 Jul 2014 &#8220;America is dropping like a stone in rankings of freedom. As power accumulates in one person, expect that to continue,&#8221; says Frank Buckley, George Mason University law professor and author of the new book, The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America. Buckley sat down with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,7,10,13],"tags":[158,698,396,458],"class_list":["post-26689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-history","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-congress","tag-monarchy","tag-parliament"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Wt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26690,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26689\/revisions\/26690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}