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What’s a little federalism between friends
February 13, 2009 | 3 Comments
Michelle Malkin reports on an amendment being proferred in the porkulus bill that she’s labelling the punish Mark Sanford amendment. Here is how it reads:
SEC. 1607. (a) CERTIFICATION BY GOVERNOR — Not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, for funds provided to any State or agency thereof, the Governor of the State shall certify that: 1) the State request and use funds provided by this Act , and; 2) funds be used to create jobs and promote economic growth.
(b) ACCEPTANCE BY STATE LEGISLATURE — If funds provided to any State in any division of this Act are not accepted for use by the Governor, then acceptance by the State legislature, by means of the adoption of a concurrent resolution, shall be sufficient to provide funding to such State.
How is this remotely constitutional? The federal government is in effect amending state constitutions by fiat and interfering in their method of adopting laws.
Of course, this is the same government that seems intent on ignoring the fact that the Constitution specifically forbids the granting of a Congressional seat to the non-state of DC.
At this point, why bother with the charade of constitutional law?
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[...] bill By Douglas V. Gibbs at 11:50 PM on 2/9/2009 What a lack of morals creates. . . By Douglas V What’s a little federalism between friends – crankycon.politicalbear.com 02/13/2009 Michelle Malkin reports on an amendment being proferred in [...]
I’m quite livid about the whole thing. There are some real nightmares in this monster of a bill — and these are only the ones of which we are aware.
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