Illustration by Jim Day . Mr. Clinton claims the Antiquities Act of 1906 gives him the power to issue these declarations unilaterally without the consent of Congress or local officials in the areas so designated.
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The state Supreme Court justices did it. Our 63 state legislators did it. When I was the editor of a small daily newspaper in Denton County, Texas, a couple of decades ago, the city manager of one town I covered was known to keep a machine-gun in his desk and the city commissioners of another town were known for punctuating their debating points with uppercuts and left jabs. More monuments to come Desperate for a legacy that doesn't involve his zipper, Bill Clinton in recent months has busily worked to ingratiate himself with environmentalists by declaring thousands of acres in the West off limits to public use. Nevada's largest daily newspaper.