If the Senate in the future can take any bill and strike all of its contents and raise taxes as high as the Affordable Care Act has done--in some cases the people suggested it is the highest tax increase in history--if they can do that, then the Origination Clause, my friends, is a dead letter.
Franks argues that the Senate's actions undermine the Origination Clause of the Constitution.
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the very bedrock foundation principle that gave birth to America in the first place was the conviction that all human beings are children of God and that they are created equal in his sight.
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