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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, July 07, 2005

The Ongoing Constitutional Convention

From George Neumayr, executive editor of The American Spectator:

The original order of importance of the branches is reflected in the order of the Constitution's articles, historian Ron Chernow recently observed. Article I addresses the legislative branch, Article 2 the executive, and Article 3 the judiciary. In this case, last was supposed to mean least. Yet today in ways the founding fathers could not have imagined the weakest branch has become the dominant branch on which the country's direction swings.

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