{"id":2017,"date":"2007-09-06T00:48:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T08:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2007-09-06T00:48:08","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T08:48:08","slug":"not-from-the-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2017","title":{"rendered":"not from the inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gondwanaland.com\/mlog\/2007\/08\/11\/presidential-question\/\">Mike Linksvayer<\/a> has &#8220;One question for temporary dictator applicants&#8221;:  <i>What will you do to reduce the power of the presidency?<\/i>  Mike admits, <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> I\u2019m afraid I\u2019d have a hard time providing a specific non-lame (and not pie-in-the-sky) answer myself, but what I\u2019d want to hear are specific structural and cultural changes that would make it more difficult for the president to act in an unchecked manner. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> I suppose a President can appoint judges who take the Ninth and Tenth Amendments seriously, but in the long run the only non-revolutionary answer is institutional dispersal of powers.  <a href=\"?p=300\">I have a couple of suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Linksvayer has &#8220;One question for temporary dictator applicants&#8221;: What will you do to reduce the power of the presidency? Mike admits, I\u2019m afraid I\u2019d have a hard time providing a specific non-lame (and not pie-in-the-sky) answer myself, but what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2017\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}