Interesting: How a Balanced Budget Amendment actually furthers subversion of the Constitution
Wow. I had never thought of things in this manner, but the author makes some good points.
Maybe then what we need is a bill that forces any spending to specifically cite its Constitutional basis - similar to what an accountant has to do when spending money: assign it to accounts. Create an account for each of the enumerated powers listed and if it doesn't fit in one of those, that project/bureaucracy/executive order doesn't get money.
Maybe then what we need is a bill that forces any spending to specifically cite its Constitutional basis - similar to what an accountant has to do when spending money: assign it to accounts. Create an account for each of the enumerated powers listed and if it doesn't fit in one of those, that project/bureaucracy/executive order doesn't get money.
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- 1Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.They have certainly been abused.| Permalink
- 2Posted by $ sjatkins 9 years, 3 months agoIf you read the founders and what they said about what the meant by various parts of the Constitution almost all of these "implied powers" are unConstitutional power grabs.| Permalink
- 2Posted by ISank 9 years, 3 months agoHey it makes since to me but the champion of SCOTUS decisions is in McColloch v Maryland was so imaginative that "implied powers" are alive , well and part of everyday day for any demogogue.| Permalink
