The Balanced Budget Amendment: Hearings Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, Parte 2

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Página 106 - Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed ; because they know that every breach of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers toward the constitution of a country, and forms a precedent for other breaches, where the same plea of necessity does not exist at all or is less urgent and palpable.
Página 40 - The Congress may waive the provisions of this article for any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is in effect.
Página 98 - Prominent on the surface of any case held to involve a political question is found a textually demonstrable constitutional commitment of the issue to a coordinate political department; or a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving it; or the impossibility of deciding without an initial policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion...
Página 94 - Total outlays for any fiscal year shall not exceed total receipts for that fiscal year, unless three-fifths of the whole number of each House of Congress shall provide by law for a specific excess of outlays over receipts by a rollcall vote.
Página 61 - In all cases where justice or the general good might require new laws to be passed or active measures to be pursued, the fundamental principle of free government would be reversed. It would be no longer the majority that would rule: the power would be transferred to the minority.
Página 94 - Congress in such statement may provide for a specific excess of outlays over receipts by a vote directed solely to that subject.
Página 93 - Before the Subcomm. on the Constitution of the Senate Comm. on the Judiciary, 99th Cong., 1st Sess.
Página 87 - ACIR calls either direct or crossover sanctions; the former are legal requirements imposed by the federal government directly on state and local governments, enforceable by civil or criminal sanctions, while crossover sanctions are grant conditions that impose federal fiscal sanctions in one program area for failure to comply with federal requirements under another, separately authorized program. Only 28 percent of earlier intergovernmental mandates employ these coercive measures. The costs of complying...
Página 80 - All bills for raising revenue must originate in the house of representatives ; but the senate may propose or concur with amendments, as on other bills.

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