• @[email protected]
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    909 hours ago

    Ah! But it says “congress shall make no law,” not that “the president shall tweet no bullshit!”

    • @Contramuffin
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      168 hours ago

      The constitution also didn’t say “the president shall give a shit about the law”

      Rookie mistake, IMO

      • @grue
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        44 hours ago

        It literally did, minus your contemporary idiom:

        he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,

        (It’s called the “take care clause” and is part of Article II, Section 3, in case anybody wants to look it up.)

        Not that it matters anymore, after Trump v. United States.

      • @[email protected]
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        6 hours ago

        It was the first time they were writing a constitution. Obviously they were rookies

        • Cethin
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          Second. The Articles of Confederation was first and failed.

    • SkaveRat
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      128 hours ago

      tbh, the founding fathers did fuck this up quite bad, by not including this