On Obamacare, as on immigration enforcement and welfare requirements,
Barack Obama is following the course that cost King James II his
throne. He is dispensing with the law.
James II was ousted in the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89, in large part for claiming that he could in particular cases dispense with -- that is, ignore -- an act of Parliament.
The law in question was the Test Act of 1673, which required that all government officials and military officers be members of the Church of England.
It is not a law admired by Americans today or, for that matter, by our Founding Fathers. Article VI of the Constitution provides that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
But the Founders did follow the English Bill of Rights of 1689, which stated "that the pretended power of dispensing with the laws, or the execution of the law by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal."
http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2013/07/12/obama-forfeits-trust-by-not-enforcing-obamacare-n1638731
James II was ousted in the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89, in large part for claiming that he could in particular cases dispense with -- that is, ignore -- an act of Parliament.
The law in question was the Test Act of 1673, which required that all government officials and military officers be members of the Church of England.
It is not a law admired by Americans today or, for that matter, by our Founding Fathers. Article VI of the Constitution provides that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
But the Founders did follow the English Bill of Rights of 1689, which stated "that the pretended power of dispensing with the laws, or the execution of the law by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal."
http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2013/07/12/obama-forfeits-trust-by-not-enforcing-obamacare-n1638731
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