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    "title": "The Obamacare employer mandate delay is another symptom of our crumbling \u2018rule of law\u2019",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>I am not a legal scholar, so I need someone to explain it to me. In what sense do we live under the rule of law if the Congress can pass a bill, the president can sign it, and then the president can unilaterally announce that it is not going to be implemented as planned? Telling me that this kind of discretionary power is routinely exercised by the executive branch is not an answer. In what sense is legislation that permits such discretion the \u00e2\u0080\u009crule of law\u00e2\u0080\u009d? Isn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t the essence of the rule of law that ordinary citizens can know what the rules are? Can be confident that the rules are not guidelines but, you know, The Law?</p>\n<p>We live in a country where the law has not only become unintelligible, written in thousand-page chunks, but has morphed into a giant mass of silly putty that can be reshaped as our rulers find convenient.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/07/the-obamacare-employer-mandate-delay-is-another-symptom-of-our-crumbling-rule-of-law/\">The Obamacare employer mandate delay is another symptom of our crumbling \u00e2\u0080\u0098rule of law\u00e2\u0080\u0099 | AEIdeas</a>.</p>\n"
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