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Re:USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from governmen... by RightMillennial on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @12:35PM (#14140252)
The U.S. Constitution and its amendments establishes limits to the power of the Federal Government. The obsession with it is that governments tends to overstep their bounds. It's something the lay person can read and point to, and definitively say when the government is doing something it is not authorized to do.
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Re:USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from governmen... by peterwwillis on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:44PM (#14141633)
I'm pretty sure that many people have had conflicting ideas about what the government is "definitively" allowed to do or not do, which is what things like the courts and the legislature are for - to decide those things, and ratify clarifications and changes if needed. "Constitutional Law" is not an easy thing for a lay person to interpret.
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