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To: WhiskeyPapa
Nowhere is it forbidden either.

First off, selling the furniture out of the White House isn't explicitly forbidden in the Constitution. Does that mean the president can do it?

Second, you are incorrect. It is not a power of the president because in no place does the Constitution even remotely hint at extending the suspension power to the president, though it does to the legislature and in doing so indicates that such an extension must be specified, or "herein granted." Try again.

1,362 posted on 12/03/2002 11:42:31 AM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
Nowhere is it forbidden either.

First off, selling the furniture out of the White House isn't explicitly forbidden in the Constitution. Does that mean the president can do it?

By your lights, secession is allowed because it is not specifically forbidden. Suspending the writ by the president is disallowed because it is not specifically made reference to. It is a double standard. It costs you all your credibility.

Now, lest you cite Article 1 sec. 9 -- THAT applies to the Congress, not the president, per you.

The Constitution nowhere specifically says a word about what the President may do about the Writ. You are two faced, unless you will admit that other implied things -- like secession -- are forbidden too.

Walt

1,366 posted on 12/03/2002 11:57:32 AM PST by WhiskeyPapa
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