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Originally posted by 4thTimeLucky
Could someone explain (in very simple words) what this Congress issue is about. I take it that Atanvarno is trying to say that Congress has no legal right to do anything beyond that list of war and tax related things he listed above.
Surely there must be someone who can prove him wrong here, otherwise something is very much amiss.
Of course being British I have no idea of what Parliament can and cannot do. We rely almost wholly on the wisdom of a few Parliamentary clerks and the British sense of fair play! Of course this isn't very safe, but is very quaint and tourists like it. However I thought that American legislature (with its much vaunted checks and balances) was pretty black and white. So where has thei grey come in?
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that's one of the things that the supreme court will consider when/if they accept this. "does congress have jurisdiction to enact a law like this"