Governmental Power News Today

This column concludes the study of the Constitution, Article I, on the powers delegated to Congress.

Should the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment now be revisited 147 years after the amendment was ratified, followed five years afterwards by a Supreme Court decision whose interpretation of the clause has persisted since then?[1] Just as the Slaughterhouse Cases decision has persisted, so has the controversy surrounding it.

For Bishop Leon Benjamin, prayer is not just a religious thing. "Prayer is a governmental power. It's just as powerful as the legislative branch that we call Congress," he said [...]