Presidential Power to Wage War: The US founding fathers were wise

Firmin DeBrabander Professor of Philosophy at the Maryland Institute College of Art, wrote an article concerning the current state of democracy in the USA.

An Iranian News website has posted the article on the IRIB World Service (English Radio Service)

Here is a quote from the article:

Now, the US founding fathers were very wise: they realized the temptation of political office -especially that of the executive branch- and aimed to delimit it as much as possible. An individual, motivated by the temptations of power and greed, will always find excuses to increase political authority if he is allowed. This is common sense among political theorists, and certainly all those great minds who inspired the founding fathers that: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Spinoza. Humans are egocentric by nature- a statement American Capitalist economy, for one, cheerfully and aggressively endorses- and in political officeholders, the task is to rein in that native egocentrism.
Messrs. Bush and Cheney would have the US people trust them with greater power in order that they might fight the so-called war on terror more effectively. But why should they trust them?

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