Posted on 05/09/2023 1:35:51 PM PDT by CFW
One factor. Since Chevron the left has intentionally made laws vague so they would pass. They would never pass if explicit.
I didn’t say that they couldn’t do it.
I only said they have no authority to do so.
They get away with it because the people are ignorant of the constitution or as in “gun control” they agree with violating it and ignore the violations!
Then again there is a third reason: The people are lazy and stupid!<-—(my personal belief!)🤣
Yes, contracts are strictly construed against the drafter. However, that is only used if the the drafting party complains that 1) its own drafted contract is or is not ambiguous and 2) the definition of terms used by the non-drafting party is erroneous. I do not see ATF or any other alphabet agency ever admitting its own regulations are drafted in an ambiguous fashion. Stranger things have happened though, so who knows.
FDR had threatened to add more Justices to the Supreme Court in order to get his way. SCOTUS, under threat, backed down in its opposition to executive branch agencies making regulations. That is why we still have only 9 justices on the USSC. And also why there is reticence to convene an Article V COS; Blue states will want to add more justices to load and bias the court.
Yes, I knew.
As for your fear of an Article V COS, We the People over the decades have surrendered our sovereignty to Scotus, Congress and the Exec branch which amends our Constitution at-will.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
I don’t know where the accelerating tyranny will end, but I am certain that history will not look well upon a once free people who gaffed off the Framers’ gift in Article V.
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