• @theluckyone
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    189 months ago

    Please point out the word “only” in Section 5 to me. I must be blind: “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”

    • @anticolonialist
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      -39 months ago

      “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”

      It’s right there The Congress shall have the power to enforce

      • Pup Biru
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        79 months ago

        shall does not mean only. it means that they do have the power, but not that they and they alone have the power

      • @theluckyone
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        69 months ago

        Please provide references demonstrating that the founding fathers defined “shall” to include an implicit inclusion of “only”, “exclusively”, or any similar verbiage.

        I’ll wait.