kong
03-02-2012, 06:58 PM
Obama Issues Another Unconstitutional Edict
COMMENTARY | President Barack Obama issued an executive order Tuesday establishing another new bureaucracy. Obama again circumvented Congress with his latest Executive Order, the Establishment of the Interagency Trade Enforcement Center.
The order begins with the line, "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America," which begs the question: Is the president ignorant or indifferent? The Constitution gives the president no such power to regulate commerce. This power is exclusive to the Congress. Obama's presidential aggrandization should come as no shock from a man who ordained himself a professor when, in reality, only reaching the rank of "senior lecturer," as reported by FactCheck.org.
On March 30, 2007, Obama stated, "I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president [George W. Bush] I actually respect the Constitution." His track record proves differently. To be fair, he is not the first president to improperly use the executive order, which is as stated, an order to the executive branch, not a law. The argument will no doubt be that Article 2, Section 3 gives the president power to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." But the law is that Congress regulates foreign commerce, not the president, therefore to properly execute the law he must defer to Congress. Even Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black makes this distinction in Youngstown Sheet and Tube v Sawyer (1952), in which he writes, "The President's power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a lawmaker."
This falls in line with the president's "We Can't Wait" campaign, which, contrary to appearances, is not as much a dig on Congress as it is a realization he only has until January to institute as much of his destructive policies as he can before he loses his job, as have millions of Americans during his administration. If Obama is a "constitutional scholar," then he is deliberately violating the Constitution that he swore to uphold while taking his oath of office. Whether it be this or the governmental trespass on religion under his self imposed authority, it is clear he has no respect whatsoever for the Constitution.
Any real constitutional scholars care to weigh in on why I have it right or wrong?
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COMMENTARY | President Barack Obama issued an executive order Tuesday establishing another new bureaucracy. Obama again circumvented Congress with his latest Executive Order, the Establishment of the Interagency Trade Enforcement Center.
The order begins with the line, "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America," which begs the question: Is the president ignorant or indifferent? The Constitution gives the president no such power to regulate commerce. This power is exclusive to the Congress. Obama's presidential aggrandization should come as no shock from a man who ordained himself a professor when, in reality, only reaching the rank of "senior lecturer," as reported by FactCheck.org.
On March 30, 2007, Obama stated, "I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president [George W. Bush] I actually respect the Constitution." His track record proves differently. To be fair, he is not the first president to improperly use the executive order, which is as stated, an order to the executive branch, not a law. The argument will no doubt be that Article 2, Section 3 gives the president power to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." But the law is that Congress regulates foreign commerce, not the president, therefore to properly execute the law he must defer to Congress. Even Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black makes this distinction in Youngstown Sheet and Tube v Sawyer (1952), in which he writes, "The President's power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a lawmaker."
This falls in line with the president's "We Can't Wait" campaign, which, contrary to appearances, is not as much a dig on Congress as it is a realization he only has until January to institute as much of his destructive policies as he can before he loses his job, as have millions of Americans during his administration. If Obama is a "constitutional scholar," then he is deliberately violating the Constitution that he swore to uphold while taking his oath of office. Whether it be this or the governmental trespass on religion under his self imposed authority, it is clear he has no respect whatsoever for the Constitution.
Any real constitutional scholars care to weigh in on why I have it right or wrong?
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