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To: silverleaf
So the lawyer who stated this doesn't know what he's talking about?

I wouldn't say that he doesn't know what he is talking about, but Vieira is a bit of a gadfly in legal circles-- he routinely publishes pieces arguing that the Federal Reserve is unconstitutional, and other non-mainstream legal theories.

In this case, he's wrong because there is a common-law rule called the "enrolled bill doctrine," which has been followed by the U.S. Supreme Court, that says that if a bill appears in the official journals of the House and Senate, it is conclusively presumed to be a valid law, and the courts will not consider any arguments that it was not properly enacted.

7 posted on 12/01/2008 4:41:41 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Actually, the FEd Reserve is unconstitutional


13 posted on 12/01/2008 4:51:01 PM PST by neverbluffer
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