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THIS ARTICLE SEEKS TO INVENTORY THOSE VARIABLES WHICH AFFECT PRESIDENTIAL POWER, ARGUING THAT "ROLES" DETERMINE THE POWER CAPABILITY OF ANY PRESIDENT. FIVE PRESIDENTIAL ROLES ARE PRESENTED AS FUNDAMENTAL, AND THIRTEEN EMPIRICAL VARIABLES, SUMMARIZED ALONG FIVE DIMENSIONS, ARE OFFERED AS THE KEY DETERMINANTS OF A PRESIDENT'S "POWER QUOTIENT".

In July 1992 Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) angrily suggested during floor debate ... that the United States should not continue accepting immigrants mho speak no English. ""I pick up the telephone and call the local garage, "" Byrd said. ""I can't understand the person on the other side of the line. I'm not sure he can understand me. They're all over the place, and they don't speak English. We want more of this?"" Later he apologized for the remark, saying, ""I regret that in the heat of the moment I spoke unwisely.""Is America in the midst of another backlash against foreigners? In the wide-ran

In contrast to the European tendency toward parliamentary enactment of euthanasia reforms, policies on physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in both Canada and the United States were promulgated by high court rulings. These rulings were very different, however: the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a constitutional right to assisted-suicide while the Supreme Court of the United States denied that any constitutional right exists. This comparative analysis of public opinion, media coverage, federalism, interest groups, and jurisprudence argues that the key variable explaining these divergent policy outcomes was the one-sided debate over PAS in the United States, while a two-sided debate occurred in Canada.