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Program 658: Separation of Powers and Foreign Affairs

Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr. argues that the executive branch has increasingly usurped authority over foreign policy until the President has virtually unlimited powers in matters of war and peace. Senator Ervin urges Congress to reassert its responsibility for determining the course of American foreign policy. Pacem in Terris III: 24. Oct. 11, 1973. [CSDI program number 658; UCSB tape number A8310/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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