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Twelve Steps to Restore Checks and Balances
Publication Date: January 2008
Publisher(s): Brennan Center for Justice
Author(s): Aziz Z. Huq
Funder(s): Brennan Center for Justice
Funder(s): Brennan Center for Justice
Topic: Government (Executive power)
Keywords: Reform; Checks; Balances
Abstract:
Executive Privilege. State Secrets. Extraordinary Rendition. Torture Memos. America's system of checks and balances is eroding. Twelve Steps to Restore Checks and Balances proposes specific reforms designed to keep the nation secure and free, as the Constitution's Framers intended.