constitutional
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The first, represented by the court’s decision, is the remnant of a constitutional democracy in which rules still matter.
From Salon
His reasoning hinged on the bedrock constitutional principle that the taxing power—which includes the power to levy tariffs—belongs to the legislature, not the president.
And the U.S., for now anyway, still has a constitutional government with rules and guardrails.
From MarketWatch
“In light of the breadth, history, and constitutional context of that asserted authority, he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it,” Roberts wrote.
The constitutional court said back in 2001 that "as time passes, the relative importance of standpoints and positions of people in a totalitarian state certainly has not vanished, but it has definitely decreased".
From Barron's
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