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To: DoodleDawg
>>DoodleDawg wrote: "I find your stuff more amusing than stomach-churning but that's just me."

Child.

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>>DoodleDawg wrote: "Be that as it may, if only powers specifically granted Congress are Constitutional and only powers specifically denied the states are excluded then would you agree that the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Space force, the air traffic control network, and the Food and Drug Administration are only four of the hundreds of unconstitutional government organizations since the Constitution does not specifically allow for an Air Force, a Space Force, an Air Traffic Control system, or any sort of control of pharmaceuticals?"

That is correct. Without authorizing amendments by 3/4's of the state legislatures, the Constitution forbids a standing army, and virtually all modern government agencies. Article I Section 8 lists the powers authorized to the Congress, and there are not a lot of them; but you don't have to take my word for it:

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State." [James Madison, Federalist No. 45, in Bill Bailey, "The Complete Federalist Papers." The New Federalist Papers Project, pp.214-215]

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>>DoodleDawg wrote: "And would you also agree that the states have the power to expel individual states from the Union against their will since no such power is specifically prohibited."

I haven't really thought about it.

Mr. Kalamata

216 posted on 12/28/2019 10:32:43 PM PST by Kalamata (BIBLE RESEARCH TOOLS: http://bibleresearchtools.com/)
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To: Kalamata
Child.

Annoyed are you? Poor baby.

220 posted on 12/29/2019 3:23:42 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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