[mnehring]

Please point out the section of the Constitution which enumerates the role of the government to prohibit lawsuits.

That is an interesting argument because, as the previous poster pointed out in praise that Paul did propose a bill to do just this with the "We the People Act”... which is it Constitutional or not to prohibit federal lawsuits?

[jmc813]

That is an interesting argument because, as the previous poster pointed out in praise that Paul did propose a bill to do just this with the "We the People Act”... which is it Constitutional or not to prohibit federal lawsuits?

I'm actually leaving the office now and am going to go get a little wasted, but if you could possibly link me to details of this, I promise to revisit it when I get home. My typing will probably suck though.

[rom]

That previous poster would be me :)

There is surely a difference in protecting a special interest in terms of a business, or class of businesses — and telling the Feds to keep their business out of the social arena?

How can you protect one single class of businesses? That seems un-American to me. Why don’t the auto manufacturers get this protection every time some loon sues Porsche or GM when their 911 or Corvette goes off the cliff at 150mph?

There’s a deeper issue of tort reform. If you start treating certain classes of business and industry different from others, you are no better than the socialists.

[Gondring]

The "We the People Act" wouldn't be necessary were the Constitution actually followed, just like the Bill of Rights wouldn't be needed were the Constitution actually followed. Nowhere does it give the power of Congress to take our guns and nowhere does it give the courts the power to make or enforce law.

The "We the People Act" would restrict federal courts to their role of judging Constitutionality, and would have prevented them from spending money on enforcement of rulings...keeping enforcement power in the Executive branch and making Federal precedents non-binding on State courts.

The Constitutionality of the Act is laid out in the act itself.