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Should Obama violate the Constitution to protect it?
msnbc ^ | january 14, 2013 | Faiven Feshazion

Posted on 01/26/2013 9:12:19 AM PST by lowbridge

Our government is guided by the U.S. Constitution, the vital document created over 200 years ago that includes founding ideals which protect civil liberties of Americans. With the help of appointed and elected government officials, the United States runs on a set of unchangeable principles and carefully added amendments.

Recently, the debt ceiling debate called into question the Constitution and how the president’s power is demarcated in the original text. The issue lies in whether or not President Obama should bypass Congress and make the executive decision to raise the spending limit.

It is not unprecedented to violate the Constitution deliberately, with good intention. In 1861, Abraham Lincoln used this path when he suspended habeas corpus in an effort to save the country during the civil war. In doing so, President Lincoln was successful in reuniting the government. On Saturday, host Melissa Harris-Perry and her panel discussed when it would be necessary for the Commander-in-Chief to trump the age-old document.

“The president needs to get his best legal advice and move forward [without Congress]” said Seton Hall University law professor Mark Alexander on Saturday’s Melissa Harris-Perry, urging that valuable time is being wasted in Washington debating the debt ceiling issue.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: constitution; melissaharrisperry; msnbc; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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1 posted on 01/26/2013 9:12:21 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
If the federal government doesn't feel compelled to follow the laws of the land, neither do I.

/johnny

2 posted on 01/26/2013 9:15:46 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: lowbridge

Inside the fevered mind of the “progressive”. God protect us from these people.


3 posted on 01/26/2013 9:16:44 AM PST by skeeter
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To: lowbridge
IMPEACH>>>IMPEACH>>>IMPEACH
4 posted on 01/26/2013 9:16:50 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: lowbridge

” . . . that valuable time is being wasted in Washington . . .”

I think we have a different definition of “valuable”. Would that those clowns in DC were to waste the next four years, and leave the rest of us alone.


5 posted on 01/26/2013 9:17:11 AM PST by Stosh
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To: lowbridge

Sometimes you have to destroy the village to save it?


6 posted on 01/26/2013 9:17:11 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: lowbridge

That is one of the worst titles of a thread I have ever seen.


7 posted on 01/26/2013 9:17:38 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: lowbridge

Racist and stupid is no way to go through life.


8 posted on 01/26/2013 9:18:34 AM PST by mort56
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To: lowbridge

And to think Americans used to chuckle at Pravda.

Not even the pretense of a free press. A state run media that would make any dictator proud.


9 posted on 01/26/2013 9:18:41 AM PST by phoneman08 (Reagan conservative union member. Not a s rare as you think!)
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To: lowbridge

Not surprised it’s come to this.

Major difference is Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus, an Article I power, because Congress was not in session in April, 1861 and copperheads were burning down railroad bridges in Baltimore to keep Union troops from reaching Washington.

What’s Obama’s emergency?


10 posted on 01/26/2013 9:21:04 AM PST by kjo (+)
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To: lowbridge

So, I guess it’s official now. We’re at CWII. According to this author, Ogumbo is Lincoln reborn and must ignore the constitution in order to save the nation....or something...


11 posted on 01/26/2013 9:22:43 AM PST by TADSLOS ( "I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few politicians."-George Mason)
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To: kjo
What’s Obama’s emergency?

Getting his full communists dictatorship in force with him as King.

12 posted on 01/26/2013 9:24:21 AM PST by Logical me
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To: lowbridge

Faiven Feshazion. Know this name. Find this man. He is a clear and present danger to America, and he is no less than a Domestic Enemy of the Constitution.


13 posted on 01/26/2013 9:24:49 AM PST by Lazamataz (LAZ'S LAW: As an argument with liberals goes on, the probability of being called racist approaches 1)
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To: Lazamataz

Faiven Feshazion turns out to be a woman.


14 posted on 01/26/2013 9:26:00 AM PST by Lazamataz (LAZ'S LAW: As an argument with liberals goes on, the probability of being called racist approaches 1)
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To: lowbridge

The only thing nobama “should” do is resign immediately and turn him self into Leavenworth to find a solitary cell in which to spend the rest of his worthless existence.


15 posted on 01/26/2013 9:26:54 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: lowbridge
Obama-the-Undocumented-cheating-Tyrant cares as much
for the Constitution as he does for all true Americans.


16 posted on 01/26/2013 9:27:26 AM PST by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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To: lowbridge

That’s a great title...if you’re intention is to plant a whole new crop of propaganda. “Gee whiz. Daddy wants to follow the constitution very badly. But some in congress won’t let him so Daddy will have to fix the boo boo himself. This is what GOOD Daddy’s do.”


17 posted on 01/26/2013 9:29:08 AM PST by albie
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To: lowbridge
Wouldn't that be like raping a woman to keep her safe and secure?

If Zero decides to violate the Constitution (some more) to try to subvert the 2nd Amendment, I predict that record numbers of citizens violate his edicts from the get-go instead of waiting for the courts to settle it. And if the courts choose wrong, I would guess that a large number of citizens will take it upon themselves to stop obeying a number of unconstitutional "laws". Perhaps this is the event horizon we need to regain some semblance of what the Founders set up.

18 posted on 01/26/2013 9:29:21 AM PST by trebb (Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
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To: Don Corleone

Exactly.

Obama has already done enough things against the Constitution and against the law to be impeached.
F&F and Benghazi just to mention two things.


19 posted on 01/26/2013 9:29:52 AM PST by Venturer
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To: kjo
They also conveniently forget that the 5th Amendment which applies to Habeaus Corpus has this clause:...except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger..
20 posted on 01/26/2013 9:30:46 AM PST by mnehring
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