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To: Sir Gawain
Argue what?

In case you didn't notice, 'some' presidents do things in office that are not according to the Constitution and they get away with it.

I have ONLY asked for the EXACT words in the Constitution that give any president to decide on his OWN that a bill is not constitutional.

While you're busy with that, you can include anything you might think has anything to justify the existence of the Supreme Court, if the president has all the power.

134 posted on 03/25/2002 12:34:33 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin
Article VI of the U.S Constitution states:

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution;

If you have doubts that a bill is constitutional, but sign it anyway, are you upholding your Oath?

140 posted on 03/25/2002 12:37:07 PM PST by Sir Gawain
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To: Howlin
I have ONLY asked for the EXACT words in the Constitution that give any president to decide on his OWN that a bill is not constitutional.

Article. I.

Section. 7.

Clause 2: Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.

See also.

173 posted on 03/25/2002 12:50:24 PM PST by michigander
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