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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/24/2023
What's the Deal with the Trillion Dollar Coin?
Law professor Rohan Grey discusses the history of the debt ceiling law and why minting a giant denomination coin might be the least stupid option should Congress refuse to raise the ceiling.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/23/2023
The 14th Amendment Should Put a Stop to Debt Ceiling Hostage Taking
by Eric Foner
The provisions of the Reconstruction Amendments dealing with the national debt were tied to the nation's short-lived commitment to interracial democracy in the South; today they offer the Biden administration a possible tool to use if Congress pushes to the brink of default.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
1/6/2023
The Constitutional Case for Demolishing the Debt Ceiling
by Thomas Geoghegan
The Founders would find the debt ceiling a ludicrous concept; it's time to take this instrument of blackmail out of the legislative process. The Biden administration should provoke a court fight over the law as an unconstitutional limit on the government's ability to pay its debts.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
10/8/2021
The US is Politically Bankrupt
by Rebecca L. Spang
By provoking crisis over the debt ceiling, Republicans are failing to heed lessons from pre-revolutionary France.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/1/2021
Mint the Coin: The Debt Ceiling is an Absurd Problem. It's Time for an Absurd Solution
by Zachary D. Carter
Silly as it sounds, minting a trillion dollar coin is the solution to the recurrent ordeal of the debt ceiling. It's legal, it's sensible, and it's not more ridiculous than using the prospect of default as a political club.
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SOURCE: The Bulwark
10/1/2021
The Disturbing Precedent for McConnell’s Debt-Ceiling Brinksmanship
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky
Mitch McConnell's use of Senate rules and the body's disproportionate representation to ensure that Democrats who represent 41.5 million more people than Republicans are unable to govern. His tactics echo those of the antebellum Slavocracy.
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SOURCE: Washington Monthly
9/23/2021
Garrett Epps: The Civil War Roots of the Debt Ceiling Crisis
Congress wrote the 14th Amendment to guarantee the legitimacy of the United States' debt, because Southerners restored to power provoked a crisis over the respective war debts of the United States and the Confederacy.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/13/2021
The History of the Debt Ceiling: How a Routine Procedure Became Routine Political Brinksmanship
It's clear that the originators of legislation establishing a debt limit for the United States did not intend for the measure to be a land mine threatening to derail the government's operations on a recurring basis.
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SOURCE: The Nation
10-16-13
Lessons From the Great Default Crisis of 1975
by Kim Phillips-Fein
Thirty-eight years ago to this day, New York City almost went bankrupt.
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SOURCE: The Crisis Papers
10-16-13
Letter to European Friends: Understanding "The Stupid" in U.S. Politics
by Bernard Weiner
Are Americans totally round the bend?
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SOURCE: Bloomberg
10-14-13
When Debt-Ceiling Politics Was Bipartisan
by Stephen Mihm
President Barack Obama is hardly the first president forced to play debt-ceiling politics.
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SOURCE: Associated Press
10-14-13
Don Hickey: The U.S. defaulted on debt after War of 1812
Lessons from America's most forgotten war.
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SOURCE: WaPo
9-19-13
False claim: Debt ceiling never used for leverage in history
In 1973, when Richard Nixon was president, Democrats in the Senate sought to attach a campaign finance reform bill to the debt ceiling.
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10-14-13
How to Fix Congress? The States Should Propose a New Constitutional Convention.
by Richard Striner
Article V stipulates that two-thirds of the states can force Congress to call a constitutional convention.
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SOURCE: Politico
10-9-13
Obama's Constitutional Imperative
by Sean Wilentz
Obama must follow the 14th Amendment.
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10-9-13
We've Never Seen Anything Like a Potential Debt Ceiling Default. Ever.
by David Austin Walsh
Economic historians explain why a debt ceiling default would be a very, very bad thing.
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10-9-13
A Brief History of the Federal Debt Limit
by D. Andrew Austin and Mindy R. Levit
The Congressional Research Service reports on the history of the debt.
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SOURCE: Fortune
10-7-13
Why the 14th Amendment matters in the debt-ceiling crisis
"[The] validity of the public debt of the United States ... shall not be questioned."
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SOURCE: New York Times
10-7-13
Obama, the Debt, and the 14th Amendment
by Sean Wilentz
Actually, the 14th Amendment DOES give the president the power to raise the debt ceiling.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
10-4-13
The Shutdown Is a Sideshow. Debt Is the Threat
by Niall Ferguson
An entitlement-driven disaster looms for America, yet Washington persists with its game of Russian roulette.
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