If you think back to that tussle we had with England over arbitrary and capricious government you might be surprised to find that...
Not even the King of England at the time of the American Revolution
had the authority to suspend laws unilaterally, the Law Library of Congress expert
wrote in a memorandum to the Senate committee tasked with responding to
President Obama’s recent executive orders on the enforcement of
immigration law.
One hundred years before the American Revolution,
another British king had “attempted to suspend a number of laws,”
contributing to the onset of the Glorious Revolution in England, a
senior foreign-law specialist at the Law Library writes in the memo to
the Senate Judiciary Committee. “King George III,” the specialist goes
on to remind the committee, “was thus unable to enact or repeal any laws
unilaterally without the involvement of Parliament.”
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