Those officials who voted against certifying a valid democratic election January 6 and who had spent months playing Trump's dangerous game preemptively, ominously, casting doubt on the outcome well ahead of November 3 and then goaded his followers in the aftermath, helped promote the narrative that poured gasoline on the insurrection, writes Frida Ghitis.
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March 4th, is the date on which- for 140 years, from George Washington s Second Inauguration in 1793 through Franklin Delano Roosevelt s First in 1933- Presidents of the United States, every four years until the 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution first took effect (36 times in all)- took the Oath of Office prescribed in Article II, Section 1, clause 8 of Our Nation s fundamental legal document.
The use of this date was not based on any specific constitutional language but was, rather, an accident of History: for the outgoing Congress of the Confederation that the Federal Government under the then-new Constitution would be replacing took it upon itself- soon after it had learned that at least 9 of the 13 original States of the American Republic had, by mid-1788, ratified that document (thereby putting it into effect, per its own terms)- to set, for the Year 1789, the dates for the first appoi
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USA Conservative; All This might be painful for certain companies, but it will no doubt help local businesses compete. What do you think? Good idea? With all due respect USA Conservative, please consider the following. Even if national minimum wage for rich companies turned out to be the greatest idea since sliced bread, it remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally given Congress the specific power to deal with INTRAstate labor issues, including setting a national minimum wage, post-17th Amendment ratification senators unsurprisingly pushing unconstitutional legislation on this issue. From related threads…
Regarding so-called U.S. national minimum wage, patriots are reminded that, regardless of politically correct interpretations of Congress’s very limited Commerce Clause powers, the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to regulate labor wages, including minimum wage.
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