MICHAEL BARONE: ObamaCare Delay Breaches Trust.

On Obamacare, as on immigration enforcement and welfare requirements, President Barack Obama is following the course that cost King James II his throne. He is dispensing with the law.

James II was ousted in the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89, in large part for claiming that he could in particular cases dispense with — that is, ignore — an act of Parliament.

America’s Founders followed the English Bill of Rights of 1689, which stated “that the pretended power of dispensing with the laws, or the execution of the law by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.”

That seems to be the clear import of Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution, which requires that the president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” But the former constitutional law teacher now in the White House is ignoring that duty.

A recent blog post by the assistant secretary of the Treasury for tax policy announced that the government would not enforce Obamacare’s employer mandate, the penalty for not offering health insurance to full-time employees.

That announcement appeared the day before the Fourth of July.

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