it given the authority oforit section four of the 14th amendment that says the public debt of united statese shall not be questioned? [laughter] advice to the constitutiond writers that usually is not a good tool for drafting.ok i did look into that some and i think there is no waymo obama's could use the provision to raise the debt limit unilaterally but it was out there as the possibility. recently there was in the blogosphere in the occupy wall street has a constitutional base of the guarantee cause of article for that says that with the republican form of government. you see them come up araof lot in the news if you aret looking for them and as the causes of the book the bill ofth attainder about legislative punishment came up blank congress thoughtth about defending planned parenthood would that be legislative punishment to take away their money areod t not? there is a natural born citizen clause which ofn course, has given rise to the argument that president obama was not a natural bornob citizen. i don't want to talk about that.n because it is out there. a more interesting question wh