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Shortly after the 2010 midterms, as the newly elected House Republican majority was poised to start governing (I use the word loosely), the GOP officials had an idea for a symbolic gesture: they'd read the entire Constitution out loud. In January of this year, as the new Congress got underway, they did it again. There…
A group of home-schooled students visited River Valley Internet in Williamsport recently. The students had a chance to splice cables and learn to use safety
An organization representing government workers is making a preemptive strike against the mounting default crisis.
A clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides, “The validity of the public debt of the United States…shall not be questioned.” Far from authorizing the President to incur more debt—a power vested solely in Congress—this clause bars Congress from repudiating debt that it has already incurred. Whether a default would amount to repudiation is an open question, but one that need not be answered at a time when tax revenues are sufficient to service current debt. Not only is the debt limit consistent with the Constitution’s separation of powers, but ther...
A bondholder could simply allege that America failing to pay off its debts is unconstitutional. There’s a good argument for that.