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To: Triple

Signing statements to the ratification process don’t carry the weight of law. They may have been a reassurance to folks but they aren’t enforceable.


280 posted on 07/16/2012 12:42:05 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

These were not “signing statements” as a president may do when signing a bill into law. They were strongly worded deliberate conditional ratifications authored by one of our most revered patriots, Patrick Henry.

The Constitution was freely entered by New York and Virginia, which would retain member state status, as long as certain conditions were upheld by the federal government. The conditional ratifications could have been rejected, but they were not.

You see, a president has no authority to amend a law in a signing statement. That was not the case with the conditional ratification, which captured the additional requirements needed for New York and Virginia to ratify the Constitution. BTW - the ratification documents had both immediate and ongoing requirements, and the immediate requirements were fulfilled.


281 posted on 07/16/2012 1:24:25 PM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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