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There Is No Constitutional End Run Around the Debt Ceiling
Document Type
Blog Posting
Publication Date
2023
Publication Title
The Atlantic
Abstract
Congress has maintained some form of a debt limit, without constitutional controversy, since the dawn of the republic. According to widely held legal principles, its existence creates no conflict with the Constitution, and the Supreme Court would almost certainly reject any attempt to argue otherwise.
Keywords
Debt Limit, Constitutional Law, Fourteenth Amendment, Congress, Executive Branch
Publication Citation
Conor Clarke, There Is No Constitutional End Run Around the Debt Ceiling, The Atlantic: Ideas (May 24, 2023), https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/debt-ceiling-negotiations-default-deadline-biden-constitution/674155/
Repository Citation
Clarke, Conor, "There Is No Constitutional End Run Around the Debt Ceiling" (2023). Scholarship@WashULaw. 76.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_scholarship/76