Tag Archives | Signing Statements

Partisanship instead of Liberty

By on October 19, 2007 in Current Events

This week, Rep. Ron Paul introduced HR 3835 – the American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007. This bill, if passed, would go a long way towards restoring liberty and the constitution in this country, and eliminate a number of “laws” that were enacted beyond the Constitution’s limit on federal power.

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Signing Statements Erode Constitutional Balance

By on July 24, 2007 in Government

by Rep. Ron Paul Recently, the General Accounting Office studied nineteen instances where the President issued so-called “signing statements.” In such statements, the President essentially begins the process of interpreting legislation – up to and including declaring provisions unconstitutional—hence often refusing to enforce them. The GAO study found that in nearly 1/3 of the cases [...]

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The Signing Statement Dictatorship

By on February 13, 2007 in Constitution

There’s been some attention of late on the aggressive use of “signing statements” by the executive branch. As the Boston Globe reported: Bush has claimed that his executive powers allow him to bypass more than 1,100 laws enacted since he took office. But administration officials insist that Bush’s signing statements merely question the laws’ constitutionality, [...]

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