President sirleaf annual message to legislate define

Author: D. Elwood Dunn

Publication date: 2011

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin / New York

Pages: 1913

Genre: nonfiction (history, politics, government, academic)

Reviewed by: D.

Othniel Forte

Summary

In this seminal work, The Annual Messages of the Presidents of Liberia 1848-2010 State of the Nation Addresses to the National Legislature, Dunn breaks the seals to a time capsule that has been hidden for a hundred and sixty-three years.

This national treasure contained, in a time series, a most critical aspect of Liberian presidential and legislative history.

This is one reportorial duty that is nondelegable. It was first specified in Art III, Section I of the 1847 Constitution but now falls under Art VI Section 58 of the 1986 Constitution.

The report should cover the "income" and "expenditures" of the republic and the "president's legislative agenda" for the coming year. The framers specifically mandated the President to, "... on the fourth working Monday