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Colorado SpringsThursday, March 17, 2005 Parking is readily available in
the Slocum lot. Please RSVP to the Alumni Office with
check or credit card by Monday, March 14th.
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DenverThursday, May 5, 2005 Free University Club parking is available at the lot at 16th and Sherman Streets. Enter lot on 16th Street and ask attendant to direct you to the University Club parking spaces. Please RSVP to the Alumni Office with check or credit card by Monday, May 2nd. |
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Please contact CC Alumni Relations at (719) 389-6776 or (800) 852-6519. "If only I could be President and Congress too – for just 10 minutes.” Thus did President Theodore Roosevelt lament that peculiar American institution known as “checks and balances,” the idea that one branch of the United States Government can check another branch and stop it from acting. Checks and balances have been a particular problem for American presidents, especially when presidents have just won reelection and have dynamic new programs that they want enacted into law. This session will briefly review the nature of checks and balances in the United States system of government. Then current issues facing the American people – such as judicial appointments, privatizing social security, ending the war in Iraq – will be discussed in the historical context of checks and balances. _______________________________________ Robert D. Loevy has taught at Colorado College since 1968. He received a B.A. from Williams College in 1957 and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1963. He worked on Capitol Hill for several years in the 1960s. He regularly teaches courses in American Government, State and Local Politics, and the Civil Rights Movement. He has participated as a campaign consultant or campaign manager in a number of political campaigns in Colorado. |
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