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Is Social Security Constitutional?

By on August 13, 2010 in Constitution, Featured, Federalism

the Court re-wrote the Constitution from the bench and handed Congress almost unlimited power to tax and spend so long as it cites the general welfare provision as the constitutional authority for the legislation.

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A New Deal Constitution

By on October 28, 2009 in Constitution

Wrote H.L. Mencken, in 1937: “The principal cause of the uproar in Washington is a conflict between the swift- moving idealism of the New Deal and the unyielding hunkerousness of the Constitution of 1788.”

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