jonny5
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Ok, that's cool. If as a nation we want to remove the Antiquities Act, and require presidents go through congress, that's fine. But Boehner and his followers need to dispense with the faulty argument that it is illegal or otherwise wrong for a president to circumvent congress in this manner. PARTICULARLY sense it was a republican president that established the precedent, and it being used by republican presidents subsequently.
No, youre missing the point. Congress has to go through US. There is no text in the constitution which gives congress the power to pass such an Act. It would be akin to seizing land to build post offices, when there wasnt specifically a post office clause in the constitution. There is no Parks clause. Thus they cant seize land for such purpose.