The constitution also didn’t say “the president shall give a shit about the law”
Rookie mistake, IMO
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Letstakealook@lemm.ee 2 months agoAh! But it says “congress shall make no law,” not that “the president shall tweet no bullshit!”
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
grue@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 months ago
It was the first time they were writing a constitution. Obviously hey were rookies
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Second. The Articles of Confederation was first and 0failed.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
tbh, the founding fathers did fuck this up quite bad, by not including this