Heads Up/The Miller Center (UVA) wrote HAVA ACT? Look Who's Involved!

[KoKo]

(Came across this when doing some research on this...found out that it was the Miller Center who is sponsoring this and guess what ELSE the MILLER CENTER HAS SPONSORED)

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BAKER, CHRISTOPHER COMMISSION TO head Bi-Partisan Panel to Study Presidential War Powers Authority
Wed Feb 28, 12:50 PM ET

Former Secretaries of State James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher will head a private, bipartisan panel to study a lingering and gnawing national question: Who does the Constitution say has the power to begin, conduct and end wars.

The dispute over the authority to wage war has historically divided presidents, members of Congress and scholars. Through the years, the White House gradually has assumed increased control of U.S. war-making, and it has arisen anew amid the shrill debate in the new Democratic-controlled Congress over President Bush's war buildup in Iraq.

Baker and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., headed the Iraq Study Group that made recommendations last December to the Bush administration on Iraq war policy.

That panel, which was authorized by Congress, achieved wide notice as Bush was considering how to reshape the U.S. role in Iraq, and its findings have been embraced by many members of both parties. Bush ended up deciding to send extra troops to the war zone — essentially ignoring its recommendation that the U.S. remove its combat troops by early next year.

The war powers study is sponsored by the private Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Among its 12 members are Baker, who served under the first President Bush; Christopher, who was in the Clinton administration; Hamilton; former Attorney General Edwin Meese, who was also on the Iraq Study Group; and Brent Scowcroft, a former national security adviser.

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The Miller Center’s National Commissions

Federal Election Reform
The National Commission on Federal Election Reform (2001)


In the wake of the 2000 presidential election and the intense scrutiny of the institutions of election administration that followed it, the Miller Center assembled the Commission to examine the voting systems in place and recommend election reform designed to improve America’s electoral system. The Commission’s proposed improvements to the federal, state, and local voting systems were largely adopted in the Help America Vote Act, a landmark piece of election reform legislation signed by President George W. Bush in 2002.

Honorary Co-Chairs:

President Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States, 1974-1977

President Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, 1977-1981

Co-Chairs:

Robert H. Michel, Member, U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois, 1956-1994

Lloyd N. Cutler, White House Counsel, 1977-1981, 1994, Partner, Wilmer Cutler & Pickering

Vice Chairs:

Slade Gorton, U.S. Senator from Washington, 1981-1987, 1989-2001 (Of Counsel, Preston Gates & Ellis; Commissioner, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States)

Kathleen Sullivan, Dean and Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Commissioners:

Griffin B. Bell, U.S. Attorney General, 1977–1979 (Senior Partner and Counsel, King and Spalding)

Rudy Boschwitz, U.S. Senator from Minnesota, 1978-1991 (U.S. Ambassador, United Nations Commission on Human Rights)

John C. Danforth, U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1976-1994 (U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations)

Christopher F. Edley, Jr., Associate Director for Economics and Government at the Office of Management and Budget (1993-1995), Special Counsel to the President (1995); (Dean and Professor at Law, University of California at Berkeley; Member of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights)

Hanna Holborn Gray, President Emeritus, University of Chicago; Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of History, University of Chicago

Colleen C. McAndrews, Partner, Bell, McAndrews, Hiltachk & Davidian

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York, 1977-2000

Leon Panetta, White House Chief of Staff, 1994-1997; Founder and Director, Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, California State University

Deval L. Patrick, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, The Coca-Cola Company (Governor-elect of Massachusetts, 2006)

Diane Ravitch, Assistant Secretary of Education (1991-1993); Historian of American Education and Research Professor of Education, New York University

Bill Richardson, Secretary of the Department of Energy, 1998-2001; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1997-1998 (Governor of New Mexico, 2003-present)

John Seigenthaler, Editor, Publisher, CEO, and Chairman Emeritus, The Tennesean; Founder of First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University

Michael Steele, Chairman, Maryland Republican Party (Lieutenant Governor of Maryland 2003-present)

Commission Director:

Philip D. Zelikow, Director of the Miller Center, 1998-2005

Click to read the Commission's Final Report

Click to read the Final Report's companion Task Force Reports

http://millercenter.virginia.edu/policy/commissions/priorcommissions#vicepresidents

[emanymton]

1. Difference Between Governing And Ruling A Nation

When one governs a nation, one accepts the premise, "Here is the law. How does one enforce it?" When the law does not work well, get the law changed.

When one rules a nation, the premise becomes, "Here is the law. How does one get around it?"

This commission represents a real threat to the rule of law. It attempts to put a veil of respectability on the administrations attempt to go around the Constitution.

shrub and Co. stop at nothing to turn USA into a fascist state.