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Comment by ExoticPearTree

20 hours ago

> The US is a constitutional republic, it does not have a system where anything Congress decides is law.

Really now? Then why does it say in the Constitution that it was created to pass laws?

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impossiblefork  20 hours ago

Your constitution literally has limits on what sort of laws congress can pass, i.e. "congress shall make now law..."

  • ExoticPearTree  14 hours ago

    Yes, a very small list of NOs. Everything else goes.

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