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In reply to the discussion: Another Shutdown? How can any shutdown be legal? [View all]manor321
(3,344 posts)4. This is wildly wrong
I hardly know where to begin.
Congress funds the Federal government. I don't know what the States have to do with it. They don't run the Federal government.
If Congress stops funding something in the Federal government, it stops functioning. That's how it works.
This isn't hard.
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Yes, there's an option, under difficult conditions, for States to change the Constitution...
brooklynite
Feb 2019
#17
You are misreading the 10th..and 9th individual rights.. The Bill of Rights
AncientGeezer
Feb 2019
#7
I'm not misreading either...they have ZERO to do with the bugetary process.
AncientGeezer
Feb 2019
#28
I did....others in this OP have. Art.1 Sec. 9 SS.7 clearly describes the process for funding.
AncientGeezer
Feb 2019
#47
Nothing in the 10th Amendment give States power to control the federal government
HopeAgain
Feb 2019
#37