The 14th Amendment

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As the clock ticked toward a Tuesday deadline for raising the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke during a rare Saturday session to make the case for President Obama lifting the debt ceiling on his own by invoking a provision of the 14th Amendment. "The Constitution is very clear in saying that the debts of the United States 'shall not be questioned,' Sanders said.
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Da wiki sez: Section 4 confirmed the legitimacy of all United States public debt appropriated by the Congress. It also confirmed that neither the United States nor any state would pay for the loss of slaves or debts that had been incurred by the Confederacy. For example, several English and French banks had lent money to the South during the war.[48] In Perry v. United States (1935), the Supreme Court ruled that under Section 4 voiding a United States government bond "went beyond the congressional power."[49] Legal analyst Jeffrey Rosen has argued that Section 4 gives the president unilateral authority to raise or ignore the national debt ceiling, and that if challenged the Supreme Court would likely rule in favor of expanded executive power or dismiss the case altogether for lack of standing.[50] Erwin Chemerinsky, professor and dean at University of California, Irvine School of Law, has argued that not even a "dire financial emergency" could the President raise the debt ceiling as "there is no reasonable way to interpret the Constitution that [allows him to do so]". [51] The issue of the 14th Amendement and the debt ceiling has been categorized as an unsettled question in the legal community.[52]

bobknight33says...

There is definitely a debt ceiling.

Where is is is up to the money lenders and such who will deem that the government has borrowed more money than it can pay back. Since we currently borrow $.43 of every dollar there not much room left to borrow.

Bernie Sanders is a joke.

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