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Monday, March 11, 2002

Opponents of the campaign-finance bill are arguing that President Bush should veto it because it is unconstitutional. George Washington used the Constitution in just this way when he vetoed a bill he regarded as incompatible with it. Andrew Jackson famously vetoed the re-authorization of the Second Bank of the U.S. because he had constitutional objections. "Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others," he said in his veto message.

 

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POSTED: Monday, March 11, 2002

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