POLSCI 389 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Answering Machine, Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship, Signing Statement

• School: U of M
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 389
• Professor: Lynn Rivers

Document Summary

News: 1 year anniversary of trump"s inauguration, women"s march - focus on having their voices heard in midterm elections, rallies internationally and in all 50 states, government shutdown, could not negotiate agreement with budget bill. Filibuster rule: takes 60 votes to close debate in the senate. President is frustrated by the fa(cid:272)t that repu(cid:271)li(cid:272)a(cid:374)s (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t pass the (cid:271)udget on their own. -> advocates changing the procedural rules in the senate: mcconnell has said that he is not willing to do this Don"t want to put war powers in the president. Framers believe that historically, executives don"t go to war for national interests, but for personal use. -> wanted to take away the royal prerogative: argument that during war "everything changes, constitution was written by framers shortly after they had finished the revolutionary war. For this reason, they set up a strict system that had the separation of powers to preserve their hard won liberties from the british tyranny.