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To: Mafe

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The constitution is 99% restraint on government power.

It is chiefly a list of the things government cannot do.
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9 posted on 01/09/2018 3:02:48 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
It is chiefly a list of the things government cannot do.

And it has no practical enforcement mechanism. Therefore, in practice government can do whatever the legislature, executive, and judiciary conspire to do.

15 posted on 01/09/2018 3:13:01 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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