Posted on 06/03/2014 8:33:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
During the 2008 election campaign, Mr. Obama made two things clear. First, that the Constitution of the United States was a reactionary document that stood in the way of socialism. Secondly, that he was going to wage war on coal.
The latest arbitrary and capricious EPA regulations requiring a 30 percent cut in national CO2 emissions by 2030 are at root unconstitutional. As Article I, Section 1, of the Constitution says, “All legislative power herein granted shall be vested in the Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.” The EPA is not Congress and may make no law.
But there is a “but.” Nothing in the Constitution, other than a strict interpretation of its first Article, forbids Congress to delegate its lawmaking power to agencies such as the EPA. Because government has grown so big, issuing and managing all the rules and regulations (most of them unnecessary) that are now the norm is beyond the capacity of Congress....
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Good reply. The principle of enumeration, escapes a lot of people.
They determine which subunit of the Uniparty will reap the spoils of increasingly arbitrary, if not despotic government.
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