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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Subject: White House Ready to Aid Auto Industry
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
Our constitution enumerates the powers of Congress. To it alone is
given the power to initiate (declare) war, and to end war (ratify
treaties). To it alone is given the power of the purse. Somehow with
the War Powers Acts of 1990 and the authorization for use of force of
2002, our congress has tried to delegate the first of these powers to
the Executive. Now, with the TARP, it seems to have given over the
purse as well. The constitution offers no hint that one branch can
delegate its powers to another, but who has standing to challenge them
when they shirk their responsibilities?
Barry Levine
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