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To: stevelackner
I for one, am sick of my personal liberty constantly being decided by a court. "Enumerated powers" has become such a joke that when a court finally decides that the most extreme case of usurpation we can imagine is unconstitutional, liberals are shocked that the court believed any restriction on the government's authority is possible.
10 posted on 08/23/2011 7:42:39 PM PDT by ElectronVolt
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To: ElectronVolt
That's because the Constitution also includes implied powers. They deliberately rejected "expressly delegated" powers (as we had under the Articles of Confederation) because they WANTED implied powers.

In fact, when the antifederalists first offered up what became the 10th amendment, it included the language "those powers not expressly delegated." It was voted down by the Federalists, because expressly delegated means no implied powers, which means no judicial invention.

That's how we ended up with the toothless, worthless, superfluous and totally meaningless 10th amendment we got instead.

13 posted on 08/23/2011 7:53:48 PM PDT by Huck (I don't believe there is just one God--humanity seems like the work of a committee to me.)
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