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>More on the 14th Amendment - Tim Iacono - Iacono Research
Once again the scholars speak out and they are wrong again.

They fail to grasp "..., authorized by law, ..." means exactly what it says in the XIVth Amendment.

Article I, Section 8 specifically empowers Congress as the only branch that can authorize expenditures.

Now couple this with the last few years of no budget and only continuing resolutions to fund the beast. A continuing resolution is not inviolate or of infinite duration.

If no authorization exists, these supposed scholars are just pimps and whores for government dollars.
Worse of all, they are liars training our college attending youth to be liars. And getting free press coverage to boot.


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Beginning of the headline :From Princeton University history professor Sean Wilentz come these thoughts (and a good deal of interesting background) about the potential use of the 14th amendment as justification for the White House unilaterally raising the debt ceiling. Republicans in the House of Representatives who declare they may refuse to raise the debt limit threaten to do more than plunge the government into default. They are proposing a blatant violation of the 14th Amendment, which states that “the validity of... Read More
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