Describing the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt for the 2014 Ken Burns documentary The Roosevelts, conservative political writer George E. Will stated: The presidency is like a soft leather glove, and it takes the shape of the hand that’s put into it. And when a very big hand is put into it and stretches the … Continue reading “A Solemn, Consecrated Act of the People Themselves:” Rep. Louis Ludlow and the Power to Declare War