Show Bennett Warns Of Power Shift Wallace F. Bennett told the University Law fraternity last Monday that the steady increase in the power of the during recent years seriously threatens our traditional separation of powers and our Constitutional checks and HE SAID that only real check on excessive White House powers is the Constitution has gone through considerable interpretation by the Supreme Court and by the Senator is my feeling that we are seriously abusing the Tenth Amendment which provides that all powers not granted to the Federal Government are reserved for the Senator Bennett held the opinion that the trend toward greater Presidential power is influenced by the men surrounding our He cited Arthur one of President Kennedy's who said that the greatest defense against Communism is the welfare interpretation of the welfare emphasized the farewell to the Bennett quoted the late President Franklin D. who told Congress in 1936 that the new instruments of public power in the wrong provide a shackle for the liberties of the of those instruments power has been the Senator the power of the Presidency has been extended since BENNETT said that the greatest threat to Constitutional safeguards against executive usurpation of authority lies in the He noted that the loophole provided by emergency powers has been used in many democratic countries and the means for introduction fo and said that expansion of this concept should be |