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Lawrence Lessig presidential campaign, 2016/Budgets
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- In a January 1995 Los Angeles Times op-ed, Lawrence Lessig argued that a federal balanced budget amendment could be an enforceable law if the president were given line-item veto authority. Lessig said, "The constitutional flaw in the balanced-budget amendment is that it is simply unenforceable. By its terms, it requires that expenditures not exceed receipts. It does not say what happens if expenditures do exceed receipts. It does not, for example, specify whether a court can review the matter. ... Tying the balanced-budget amendment to the line-item veto would create a constitutional power to balance the budget, vested in an officer who could effectively exercise that power, tempered by a political judgment (the President's) that allows for exceptions where exceptions are needed."[2]
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