In purely practical terms, it is obviously easier for action to be taken by one House without submission to the President; but it is crystal clear from the records of the Convention, contemporaneous writings and debates, that the Framers ranked other values higher than efficiency.
INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919, 958-59 (1983)
She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, 1856-1950
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin
Letter to M. Leroy, 1789, (Daniel DeFoe said soemthing similar regarding death and taxes 50 years before) 1706-1790
Defending liberty is not a sometime job. We have to keep at it, because the forces that threaten our rights are well-organized, well-funded and committed. Dan Gillmor
July 3, 2001, San Jose Mercury News
There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos. Jim Hightower
former Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, Congressman (Democrat)
No great man ever says that success is made through fraud; every small man [does.] Ayn Rand
(1905-1982)
[Y]ou will see the rise of the double standard–the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money- the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law- men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims- then money becomes its creators’ avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they’ve passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged,(1905-1982)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers
Will Rogers (1879-1935)