Show Maxwell Sees Congress Strong President By G. A. JURETICH the American congress is now in a state of decline partly because of circumstances and partly because of its own Neal A. assistant to the president and secretary to the Board of proposed this opinion Thursday morning before a near capacity crowd at the second of this year's Tuesday Thursday Orson Spencer Hall Auditorium he said this decline has been underway for several decades and is possibly in quoting Francis professor and head of the department of political the power of final decision is there also is the power of our time that power is lodged in an energetic executive branch and the potential powers of abuse are atomic in commented who holds a masters degree from the University in political AFTER citing historical background concerning the tripartite U.S. system of the former Central Intelligence Agency analyst a and determined personality in the White House has always been accompanied by a decline in the relative status of he cited one expert who said though all three governmental branches have increased spending more than 99 percent of the expansion has been in the executive THIS shift in spending power and a similar shift of Congress' constitutional power to declare war are among the chief losses in power suffered by the Legislative branch since the advent of the New Deal days of which ushered in the era of modern declared who at one was legislative assistant to Wallace F. Bennett can almost see a certain symbolism in the gleaming new Congressional office as if these were substitutes for the power that Congress once he He also noted that the have also usurped large blocs of power once in the hands of Congress with these agencies now being virtually real problem is much deeper than all What we are really asking is whether or not this decline means as one author has predicted the way has been eased for Coming has made and must make adjustments in its role to serve the system effectively but if the adjustments which are demanded or which evolve are too they will be the prelude to a dangerous change in our whole contended Maxwell in the powerful conclusion to his Next Tuesday at Jack H. associate professor of English and Dean of the College of Letters and will discuss Milton and the Modern |