• anticolonialist@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”

    It’s right there The Congress shall have the power to enforce

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      8 months ago

      shall does not mean only. it means that they do have the power, but not that they and they alone have the power

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      8 months ago

      Please provide references demonstrating that the founding fathers defined “shall” to include an implicit inclusion of “only”, “exclusively”, or any similar verbiage.

      I’ll wait.