Enforcing the debt ceiling would be unconstitutional.

[ashling]

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2011/08/01/110801ta_talk_surowiecki?fb_ref=social_fblike&fb_source=home_oneline

[TreasonousBastard]

1. NOW you tell us!

[Cool Logic]

2. It is not clear to me why so many people are unable to understand the Constitution.

I don't know who invented this idea that the Executive branch is the "supreme" power, but I have been concerned by it. First, they discovered that the Executive has unilateral power to declare war. Now, the seek to create the unilateral power to borrow. What they overlook is it is the legislation to spend that has been enacted, not the legislation to borrow.

The power to borrow is delegated to the Congress in Article 1; accordingly, the Congress must publish, ratify and have signed into law, legislation that authorizes the borrowing. Spending and borrowing are separate and apart, requiring separate legislation, separate votes, separate signings. Additionally, spending and borrowing are separated in section 7, and section 8.

Article 2 delegates Executive branch powers, and says nothing about borrowing authority. The president is not a King and the 14th amendment was not intended to give the Executive branch the authority to usurp Congressional jurisdiction from the Congress.