FFF Daily - December 16, 2024

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2024

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.

– James Madison, Letter to Edmund Pendleton [January 21, 1792]

HORNBERGER'S BLOG

December 16, 2024
Soldiers Will Obey Trump's Unconstitutional Orders
Yesterday the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed entitled “What Will the Military Do If Trump Gives Unconstitutional Orders?” The article was written by a West Point graduate named ML Cavanaugh, who recently retired from the military. He is the co-founder of an organization named the War Institute at West Point....

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