To: Know your rights
Take a look at the "necessary and proper" clause. Where the Framers granted authority to the federal government, they meant for that authority to be effective.
To: Rockingham
Take a look at the "necessary and proper" clause. Where the Framers granted authority to the federal government, they meant for that authority to be effective.If they had said just "necessary" or "necessary OR proper" you might have a point. But they didn't.
116 posted on
11/05/2005 10:27:18 AM PST by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: Rockingham
Take a look at the "necessary and proper" clause. Where the Framers granted authority to the federal government, they meant for that authority to be effective.Where the Framers granted authority, and where they did not is the question. I don't think anyone has proposed that the Framers intened for federal authority they granted to be ineffective, or they wouldn't have bothered in the first place.
126 posted on
11/05/2005 10:38:02 AM PST by
tacticalogic
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