Bill Barr and Donald Trump are trying to torch the "Ancient Constitution" that governed kings

With each passing day, it seems, the Trump administration seems intent on replaying the leadup to the English Revolution. Attorney General William Barr, Trump's legal theorist, has put forward the notion that the president's powers are " undivided and absolute." Even more astonishing, Barr wrote in his June 2018 unsolicited memo to the Trump administration that "The Constitution itself places no limit on the president's authority to act on matters which concern him or his own conduct..." Both Barr and Trump believe that the chief executive's prerogatives are not to be questioned. As Nick Bunker writes in "Young Benjamin Franklin," Care's volume "amounted to a source book of ideas that would draw upon until the 1770s, when Americans replaced it with better treatises of their own." UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo has proposed that the Supreme Court's DACA decision allows Trump the latitude to do whatever he wants through executive order: Presidents " can now stop enforcing laws they dislike, hand out permits or benefits that run contrary to acts of Congress and prevent their successors from repealing their policies for several years."