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Re: rooster post# 223236

Monday, 06/02/2014 10:50:55 PM

Monday, June 02, 2014 10:50:55 PM

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rooster -- certain of his signing statements at the damned least severely tested the limits, just wholesale declarations without any even purported real/recognizable legal basis that he/his administrations simply were not subject to/would not enfore or obey whole chunks of law (there's a bunch on that from the earlier years here, not gonna go find and link them here/now) -- of much more substance and concern, of course, were/remain various things his two administrations actually did -- see e.g. (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=102801235 :

Number of new statutes challenged
Especially since the mid-1980s, presidents have sometimes declared that they can ignore a provision of a bill because they believe it is unconstitutional.

SOURCE: Presidential signing statements analyzed by Christopher Kelley, a political science professor at Miami University of Ohio, and by the Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/statutes_challenged/

and see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=102800830 and preceding (and any future following)


Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07

"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790


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