Background
Byrd, Robert Carlyle was born on November 20, 1917 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, United States. Son of Cornelius Sale and Ada (Kirby) Byrd.
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A congressman who has served for more than fifty years presents a cautionary argument against current Bush administration practices that he contends disrupt the balance of governmental power, limits public participation in decision-making, and compromises privacy, in a call to action that reminds readers of the Constitution's original purpose.
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Provides a series of fourteen addresses delivered in 1993 before the Senate by Senator Robert C. Byrd. Discusses the constitutional history of separated and shared powers as shaped in the republic and empire of ancient Rome. These lectures are also in opposition to the proposed line-item veto concept. The introduction states that Senator Byrd delivered these speeches entirely from memory and without notes.
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Senator Byrd reasoned that, "if the history of the Roman people helped to influence Montesquieu's political philosophy concerning checks and balances and the separation of powers, and if Montesquieu's political theory influenced our American forebears in their writing of the United States Constitution, then why can it not be said that the history of Rome and the Romans, as well as the history of England and Englishmen, influenced 'the Constitution's framers'." The Roman Senate had emerged as the mainstay of an extended struggle against executive authority for power to control the purse. For centuries, the Senate of ancient Rome was made up of "the wisest, the best educated, the most respected, most experienced, most vigilant, most patriotic men of substance in the Roman republic." But "when the Roman Senate gave up its control of the purse strings, it gave away its power to check the executive. From that point on, the Senate declined. . . Once the mainstay was weakened, the structure collapsed and the Roman republic fell." Senator Byrd sees ample parallels between the willingness of Roman senators to hand over powers of the purse to usurping executives and the compliant attitude of United States senators in responding to presidential urging for a similar grant of powers in a line-item veto constitutional amendment.
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United States Senator from West Virginia
Byrd, Robert Carlyle was born on November 20, 1917 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, United States. Son of Cornelius Sale and Ada (Kirby) Byrd.
Student, Beckley College, Concord College, Morris Harvey College, 1950-1951; student, Marshall U., 1951-1952; Juris Doctor cum laude, American U., 1963.
Member West Virginia House of Representatives, 1947-1950, West Virginia State Senate, 1951-1952, United States Congress from 6th West Virginia District, 1953—1959. United States Senator from West Virginia, 1959—2010. Assistant majority leader (majority whip) United States Senate, 1971—1977, majority leader, 1977—1981, 1987—1989, minority leader, 1981-1986, president pro tempore, 1989—1995, 2001—2003, 2007—2010.
Chairman United States Senate Appropriations Committee, 1989—1994, 2007—2009, ranking member, 1995—2007.
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Member of Country Music Association (honorary), Masons.
Married Erma Ora James, May 29, 1937. Children: Mona Carole (Mistress Mohammad Fatemi), Marjorie Ellen (Mistress John Moore).