In response to concerns about concentrated executive powers, a group of prominent conservatives has created the American Freedom Agenda to, in their words, "restore the Constitution’s checks and balances as enshrined by the Founding Fathers."
The group suggests that Mitt Romney-and probably the bulk of the announced presidential candidates-are ignorant of the checks and balances and the protections from government abuses written into the Constitution.
With that in mind I shouldn't be so hard on my students for also being ignorant of this stuff also. Or maybe I should ramp it up.
By the way--they like our boy Ron Paul.
