We will again illustrate that before one interprets the Constitution, one needs to have actually read it..
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Originally posted by Just the Village Idiot
Hell, the President sending a bill to Congress is in violation.
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"He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; "
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The Consitution was written specifially to protect individuual citizens from a tyrannical governement....
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"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
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Your arguement that the general welfare of the United States applies to citizens is not only off the mark... frankly it's stupid.
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Indeed. What is 200 years of Constitutional jurisprudence when compared to the obviously superior legal scholarship of a right wing troll on a chat board?