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Fernando Orellana
3 December 2021 - 12:20 PM
After viewing this debate I think both are partially right. The president is overreaching in his use of power, and evolving the presidency into a more unilateral decision making body.…
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tdm1_19004
22 May 2019 - 02:44 AM
I am against the motion. I believe that the president should have a lot of executive power. If there ever comes a time that a quick and important decision needs…
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Anthony Eid
9 May 2019 - 05:19 AM
Before and after the debate I did not agree with the motion. The president duty isn't just to get bills passed there is a reason that Congress exists and if…
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1 March 2019 - 02:41 AM
Before the debate started my opinion on the topic was in agreement with the motion that the president has usurped the power of congress, and was continuing to increase his…
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Abby Righter
28 February 2019 - 15:10 PM
I am for the motion. Although I may agree with the cause of the action that Obama put into place, the action of usurping congress itself is should not be…
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alysim51_18299
28 February 2019 - 14:57 PM
I am for the motion, presidents do tend to overuse power given to them. As they explained, the example of president Obama and Obamacare, where this program ignored the expenses.…
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Reese Hessling
28 February 2019 - 14:50 PM
I am for the motion and believe that the president has usurped the power of congress. This is because the power of the president has grown exponentially since the start…
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Jayne Petersen
28 February 2019 - 14:48 PM
I am against the motion and do not think that the president has usurped the power of congress. The reason I feel this way is because I know that the…
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Maren K
28 February 2019 - 14:45 PM
I am not entirely 1oo% on one side or the other, but I'm leaning towards for the motion. I do think that in a lot of ways, the president has…
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Trevor Dunn
28 February 2019 - 14:22 PM
Honestly I'm not sure because if the President can't get bills passed because of Congress not being able to decide. But sometimes the President can try to abuse the power.…
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Vincent DeSanto
28 February 2019 - 13:21 PM
I am for this resolution. The Presidency has slowly grown more and more tyrannical over the course of American History. My opinion doesn't change when incorporating Donald Trump's presidency. He…
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Kate Wujciak
28 February 2019 - 13:05 PM
1. Say whether you are for or against the motion. Against the motion. 2. Say why you are for or against the motion. Checks and balances are a pinnacle of…
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Merritt D
28 February 2019 - 11:05 AM
I am for the motion because I believe that our country is more constitutional when we have a decentralized government, including powers are ones also from the president themselves. Executive…
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Bella Moisides
28 February 2019 - 04:45 AM
I am against the motion because the president should be allowed to have strong executive power. If this wasn’t the case and Congress was the main power, then things just…
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Ana D
28 February 2019 - 04:17 AM
I am against the motion and do not think that the president has usurped the power of congress. I am against it because the system of checks and balances was…
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Ashley David
28 February 2019 - 03:17 AM
1. Say whether you are for or against the motion. 2. Say why you are for or against the motion. 3. As the debate was before the election of our…
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cmm10_18290
28 February 2019 - 02:52 AM
. Say whether you are for or against the motion. 2. Say why you are for or against the motion. 3. As the debate was before the election of our…
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Marissa Miller
28 February 2019 - 02:17 AM
I am against the motion. I am against the motion because I do not believe that the president (Obama) has usurped the constitutional power of congress. Because of a long…
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Amp5_18286
27 February 2019 - 23:19 PM
After being undecided before the debate, I now stand against the motion after watching the debate. If the president were to have as much power as the motion is suggesting,…
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Isabella Cazal
27 February 2019 - 21:43 PM
I am against the motion. I believe this because as stated by Adam Cox, the world is constantly changing and every president is introduced to different problems they must solve.…
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Mika Hamady
27 February 2019 - 18:10 PM
1. Say whether you are for or against the motion. 2. Say why you are for or against the motion. I am definitely for the motion. Given our country's written…
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rcm2_18217
20 February 2019 - 17:48 PM
I am for the motionI am for the motion because I believe that it is true, many presidents over the years have usurped the constitutional power of congress. It is…
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kam10_18165
20 February 2019 - 17:01 PM
Say whether you are for or against the motion.2. Say why you are for or against the motion.3. As the debate was before the election of our most recent president,…
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Fiona Kernen
14 February 2019 - 15:45 PM
When presented with this argument I am for the motion. This is because of seeing how the president truly did not just bend but break the law. I did like…
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Jeremy Anderson
7 August 2017 - 18:33 PM
Predebate. On immigration, the president used his full authority to try and impose his vision of his immigration should be. He justified this by pointing to the legislatures inaction on…
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Kyle Hart
28 January 2017 - 01:41 AM
I was surprised by the resulting vote. Arguments on both sides were impressive, no doubt, however, it appeared at least to me, the audience was compelled by subjective 'should the…
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Kyle Hart
28 January 2017 - 01:40 AM
The side against did not frame the debate objectively but rather played to the subjective 'should' the President... and used historic of past Presidents doing the same as justification that…
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Abhiram Tirumala
16 January 2017 - 20:02 PM
Although those for the motion have several examples where the president has abused their powers, the people against the motion use logic to explain how the United States has come…
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Kaitlyn Murphy
16 January 2017 - 17:58 PM
Prior to watching the debate, I was informed of several examples in which the President had stretched his powers. For this reason, I voted for the motion. After watching the…
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David Bailey
31 December 2016 - 03:53 AM
Because I feel that Congress was confederate in granting power to the President that should have required a Constitutional amendment to grant. Even so, this was still a usurpation by…
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Nicholas Fleming
9 December 2016 - 13:47 PM
While I do agree that in recent years the power of the President has grow to out weigh the constitutional power of congress, I disagree with the thought that the office…
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Jack Grant
2 December 2016 - 13:34 PM
Either side of this case could be reasonably argued, as shown by the debaters. But when it comes down to it, there are several incidents in recent history that can…
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George Adelman
2 December 2016 - 13:33 PM
I believe that in general, while the importance of the presidency has expanded over time, the office hasn't overstepped any boundaries or become more powerful than Congress. The president can…
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Peter Bartels
2 December 2016 - 13:32 PM
Article II is vague. Very vague. The President has executive power. He has appointment power, he is commander in chief of the armed forces. By this description he could be…
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collin schultz
2 December 2016 - 13:29 PM
“It is important to realize that one cannot justify the usurpation of Congress’ power by using examples of other presidents that had followed the same example. Being against the motion…
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Keegan Wolohan
2 December 2016 - 13:29 PM
The question in itself is biased. Whether or not the president has usurped the power of Congress is undebatable. The question should be presented in a statement to the effect…
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Tom Sapak
2 December 2016 - 13:28 PM
Throughout recent years the executive has gained congress’ power. There is a time and place for executive orders, however that does not excuse the use of them to break the…
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Justin Kuli
2 December 2016 - 13:28 PM
“The executive branch, throughout history, has gained much more power than it originally had. Things such as executive orders, declaring war, and just exceeding authority in general are ways that…
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Robert Johnson
16 October 2016 - 22:34 PM
Both Rep & Dem's have caused gridlock because Congress fails to do it job ... In part because of fear of the presidential power.
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John Donvan
11 August 2016 - 16:43 PM
We were timely on this one. Of course, this presidential election seems to be throwing EVERY kind of topic into play.
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27 June 2016 - 01:28 AM
On 2016-06-26 21:28:08, James wrote:I'm a liberal in one of the most liberal states (California), but I can see clearly that several of the last few presidents (both Bush and…
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23 June 2016 - 03:17 AM
We each approach major questions with a bias toward our own opinions and toward partisan opinions. In our species there is some conflation of self with coalition; our species is…
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23 June 2016 - 02:27 AM
The votes before and after could simply reflect cheer leading rather than change of opinion. It would be more interesting to see comments before and after, especially by those who…
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22 June 2016 - 09:13 AM
On 2016-06-22 05:13:58, Ray wrote:I'm a political liberal by US standards, swinging left of the Democratic mainstream, but even I see that the president, not Obama specifically, has attempted to…
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16 June 2016 - 22:58 PM
I have to imagine the crowd at these events are letting their political leanings override their logical thought process when it comes to calling out a president for usurping Congressional…
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16 June 2016 - 04:25 AM
On 2016-06-16 00:25:47, calixtus wrote:The Congressional embrace of political expediency should also be called out. Congress (of both parties) frequently vote against measures that they privately support, but cannot be…
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10 June 2016 - 03:01 AM
On 2016-06-09 23:01:04, Josh wrote:Mr. Posner seems to think that a legitimate argument in favor of breaking the law is how long presidents have been breaking the law and how…
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9 June 2016 - 16:11 PM
On 2016-06-09 12:11:54, Andrew Terhune wrote:Those who see this as a battle between the current Congress and president need to remember that the person in the White House will not…
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9 June 2016 - 03:46 AM
On 2016-06-08 23:46:14, Paul Pindar wrote:Mr. Posner's assumption that the regulation of power is fully discretionary. His stated assumption that all legislative initiative fully implies that the president has full…
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9 June 2016 - 03:33 AM
On 2016-06-08 23:33:08, Jadorei Jade wrote:Congress is not wanting Obama to fail in everything he does. Riders are often being attached to bills and shouldn't be causing Dem's to fail.…
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9 June 2016 - 02:58 AM
You HAVE to be kidding. With a Congressional majority explicitly and openly devoted ONLY to "making sure Obama fails in everything he tries to do", you want to label the…
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9 June 2016 - 02:51 AM
On 2016-06-08 22:51:27, Mel Gurry wrote:I would hope that thoughtful people would at least view the gradual accumulation of power to the president over the years with some alarm. The…
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6 June 2016 - 16:11 PM
On 2016-06-06 12:11:51, Linda Schmidt wrote:I agree that executive power has expanded beyond the bounds originally intended; and that some of the current uses of this power are excessive, but…
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6 June 2016 - 07:32 AM
On 2016-06-06 03:32:16, Christy Considine wrote:Is the Constitution next to go!
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6 June 2016 - 02:46 AM
This is the problem in society today, that clear cut questions where the answer is self evident by the facts still has to be debated to be considered politically correct…
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6 June 2016 - 02:43 AM
This is the problem in society today, that clear cut questions where the answer is self evident by the facts still has to be debated to be considered politically correct…
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6 June 2016 - 02:29 AM
The problem is not so much usurpation of Congressional powers by the President but the excessive delegation of powers by successive Congresses more concerned with continuous fund-raising than fulfilling their…
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6 June 2016 - 02:27 AM
On 2016-06-05 22:27:03, Bruce K wrote:Oh, please ... every time I-Squared creates one of these hacky biased sensationalist debates it detracts just a little more from your credibility not to…
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27 May 2016 - 23:21 PM
What's more important is that the federal government has usurped a huge amount of legislative authority that is rightfully reserved to the states. This problem mostly began with the New…
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