Executive privilege was established to protect presidential confidentiality. There are certain conversations, documents and records which are sensitive to the duties of the president which should remain confidential. Some will argue this is a president’s right to candid advice from advice or with military and diplomatic matters. Those who may oppose will argue that Congress as a right to information. Also, executive privilege is a power that political parties tend to support when they in power and oppose when they are not.…
“The stage was set for a great constitutional struggle between a President determined not to give up executive documents and materials and a Senate committee and a federal prosecutor who are determined to get them," The White House claimed “Executive Privilege” when they refused to disclose the recorded tapes of President Nixon and his aides. Nixon and his advisors became arrogant with their possession of power. The Executive Branch was disrupting the balance of power and the separation of powers written into the Constitution. No Branch, elected official, governmental worker, or even the President is above the law, but Nixon definitely…
I believe that nixon should have been pardoned by Ford. The first reason I believe that he should be pardoned is because the country already had many problems. One of the problems with the country was racism which needed to be at an end or at least addressed. Another problem was the recovering of the states after vietnam and economic issues. The second reason I believe in his pardoning is Nixon already had paid a price for the crime. Many people liked him in office and he had support and he had to give it all up so it was enough punishment. The third reason I believe Ford did the right thing is because he was acting as a leader and he said that the country needed to be more merciful. I think that maybe him acting…
b) Given that the power is not absolute, should President Nixon be capable of claiming executive privilege under the aforementioned circumstances?…
Richard M. Nixon was the 37th president of the United States of ‘murica. He is the only president in American History to resign from his position in office. He was part of the Watergate scandal but still made many great achievements in his life time. Nixon is certainly a president that will forever be in American History.…
Reed Broussard Coach Roch Civics 3rd hour 1 March, 2016 U.S. vs. Nixon Many presidents have committed scandals while in office. One of the most public of these scandals was the Watergate Scandal. Because of this scandal, President Richard Nixon was brought to the Supreme Court. What resulted in him being brought to the supreme court was a landmark case.…
The apparent untouchability of Nixon became apparent to the people of America and made them frightened as to what Nixon’s next move would…
The Superior Court ruled that the appeal should be allowed, and that this evidence should be considered inadmissible since the accused chose not to make any statements - he was practicing his right to remain silent. The police violated his right under s. 7 of the Charter by tricking him into opposing his decision, which then made the trial unjust. An undercover police officer must serve the purpose of observation of suspects, rather than actively drawing out evidence or information in violation of the person’s right to remain silent. Seeing as the statements were the only piece of evidence the Crown had in order to be able to prove the individual guilty, it’s evident that under the current conditions, it’s the admission of the evidence rather…
Citation: Powell V U.S. No. 405, Supreme Court of the United States, 1968, 392 U.S. 514, 88 S. Ct. 2145 L. Ed 2d 1254, 1968 U.S. 1140. Facts: Leroy Powell was arrested December, 1966 for public intoxication, which is in violation of Texas state law. Powell was found guilty and fined.…
To have the power to go beyond the constitution should be one of the president’s power when dealing with war or rebellion, and to protect the lives of US citizens or keep international peace in foreign countries. The presidents throughout history, when taking the action of going beyond the constitution, has helped the US when the south succeeded and when we wanted to help keep international peace. The President needs to have this power in order to become a better leader to its people and help whoever needs…
While the executive order and executive privilege were introduced with good intentions, many believe that the latter was abused—especially during Richard Nixon’s presidency, however, this argument is and can be solely based off of a biased perspective. While in “Nixon’s Address to the Nation on his Secret Tape Recordings”, from 1974, which is a moderately strong document due to its author being a former president (the validity suffers because Nixon is biased in favor of himself), it can be seen that the president had a reason behind his controversial actions: “Ever since the existence of the White House taping system was first made known last summer, I have tried vigorously to guard the privacy of the tapes. I have been well aware that my effort to protect the confidentiality of Presidential conversations has heightened the sense of mystery about Watergate and, in fact, has…
Throughout history , presidents have taken different steps in abusing the executive orders and other presidential directives. Many citizens expressed different views over the executive abuse and benefits the presidents have. The increased use of executive legislation in the absence of challenges from Congress has expanded the power, boundaries, and pose a serious threat to the democracy.…
In the past, the power of executive privilege has been used by Presidents to conceal information that has to do with foreign affairs and negotiations, military, national security issues as well as deliberations and policy making that is done between the President and his top aides. This power is only used when Congress asks the President or one of his top aides to produce all of the information pertaining to an event or situation. If the President then feels that parts of this information needs to be kept secret to protect the best interest of the public, or the other issues listed previously, then he will use executive privilege in order to not give that information to Congress. A huge part of executive privilege is to protect the deliberations and advice given by the President’s aides. When the President’s advisors give him advice, they need to be able to give him the best advice possible and if there is a chance that everything they said could be made public. For instance if the President and advisors are discussing what needs to be done in relation to a foreign power and one suggests to nuke them, one suggests a covert attack and one suggests a peaceful resolution. If the final decision is a peaceful resolution, and Congress asks for all of the information on the subject, then the President should use executive privilege to keep those other possible outcomes from going public, both to keep the public from getting out of control or uneasy and to keep the other country from finding out the other options and retaliating. This power ensures that the President’s advisors can be completely honest and say what needs to be said without being worried about their words being taken the wrong way or too harsh or hurt their image.…
In the United States our President has many powers that are granted to him when they are elected into office. They have the ability to change the budget, to either cut back on spending, or implement new programs to help their citizens. They can veto a bill that they think is not ready to be made law yet and send it back to congress for further evaluation. They can appoint Supreme Court Justices. They also are the Commander in Chief of all U.S. armies, and they even have the power to send troops over to foreign nations in times of hostility in some circumstances. There are many who believe that the powers of the president are sometimes abused, especially as the Commander in Chief. There have been several instances in our Nation’s history in which the President has been able to wiggle their way around the constitutional limitations that are given of the Commander in Chief. Even though the president is unable to actually declare war he can use his powers to advance a conflict. The article Congressional War Powers, The Commander in Chief and Senator John Mccain describes how this is achieved by stating “Technically only congress has the power to declare war but the President can act unilaterally to repel sudden attacks made on U.S. Soil” (Bowling, 2008, p. 1). Presidents use these executive powers to engage in a conflict that they believe needs to be settled in times of crisis. The Constitution has a system within-it that tries to grant separate but equal powers to all branches of government called checks and balances. Although this system of checks and balances is supposed to be followed, there are ways which certain branches of government can gain more power than others. Often the President is the one who abuses the system, and uses their executive powers for their own advantages. These powers granted to the President have been abused more and more throughout our Nation’s recent history and it needs to…
The rights of an American citizen were established for a reason. After the Watergate scandal, President Gerald R. Ford put forth the effort to put the Privacy Act Amendments of 1974 into effect. Patrick Martin said that the bush administration pressured the media to cover up the adversaries of the war drive in Central Asia. It is unacceptable that a president would abuse his power by keeping a whole country in the dark over information that could change the outcome of our country. W. Bush was protecting the country from terrorists, but indirectly expanding the power of the FBI to spy on wireless phone calls. The FBI…