Laurence Tribe
Laurence Tribe
Laurence Henry Tribeis a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. He also works with the firm Massey & Gail LLP on a variety of matters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth10 October 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'
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Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution.
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That free flowing inherent power is the very thing we fought a revolution against.
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I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.