In response to John Kennerly Davis’ response to my question: The logical implication of his view is that Congress can in principle pass spending bills that are so flagrantly unconstitutional and destructive to our national security and sovereignty-like the Green New Deal or open borders immigration or both together-and the President (or later presidents) as well as state governors would still have to enact the spending provisions until or unless a lawsuit is brought against such bills and the Supreme Court rules them unconstitutional. Does he really agree with this logical implication of his view? If not, then that would be an admission that congressional bills can be so badly unconstitutional that unilateral refusal of enactment by the President or state governors would be both morally and constitutionally justified. The Founding Fathers clearly believed this, because they ratified the 2nd Amendment, whose intended purpose, among other things, is to enable armed revolt by the citizenry against the government if it becomes tyrannical. Not that we should go this far in the present situation in order to denude the administrative state and Congressional constitutional overreach, but it illustrates that Mr. Davis' claims about how our constitutional system should work would likely have been rejected by the Founding Fathers.
They should stop giving money to ANY foreign country for ANY reason for a couple years and see how much they can save then.
In response to John Kennerly Davis’ response to my question: The logical implication of his view is that Congress can in principle pass spending bills that are so flagrantly unconstitutional and destructive to our national security and sovereignty-like the Green New Deal or open borders immigration or both together-and the President (or later presidents) as well as state governors would still have to enact the spending provisions until or unless a lawsuit is brought against such bills and the Supreme Court rules them unconstitutional. Does he really agree with this logical implication of his view? If not, then that would be an admission that congressional bills can be so badly unconstitutional that unilateral refusal of enactment by the President or state governors would be both morally and constitutionally justified.
The Founding Fathers clearly believed this, because they ratified the 2nd Amendment, whose intended purpose, among other things, is to enable armed revolt by the citizenry against the government if it becomes tyrannical. Not that we should go this far in the present situation in order to denude the administrative state and Congressional constitutional overreach, but it illustrates that Mr. Davis' claims about how our constitutional system should work would likely have been rejected by the Founding Fathers.