EPISODE · May 16, 2013 · 40 MIN
As Powerful as Louis XIV
from Constitution Thursday · host Dave Bowman
President Richard Nixon, defending against the growing scandal of Watergate, has his lawyer argue before the Supreme Court that he is a man who is as powerful as King Louis XIV... Dave & John look at the Executive and what its powers were intended to be versus what they have become in Article 2 Section 1 The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
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President Richard Nixon, defending against the growing scandal of Watergate, has his lawyer argue before the Supreme Court that he is a man who is as powerful as King Louis XIV... Dave & John look at the Executive and what its powers were intended to be versus what they have become in Article 2 Section 1 The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
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