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To: dcwusmc
the Constitution is a limit on GOVERNMENTAL power and authority

The Constitution is a delegation of inherent state powers to the federal government. Far from "defending" the Constitution, you incessantly misrepresent it.

418 posted on 11/25/2006 8:43:51 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave

I take it you have yet to read the Constitution and the other founding documents. Perhaps you should go to http://www.constitution.org and follow some of the links. You'd be AMAZED at what the Founders had to say... especially regarding the Commerce Clause. They had you in mind when they specifically stated that it was NOT intended for what it's being used for these days. Their SOLE intent was to ensure that, for example, Maryland could not impose a tariff on goods coming through there from Pennsylvania, headed for Virginia... or even to be sold in Maryland. In other words, that no State could impose burdens on other states, so as to protect its own industries or farms or whatever. That is ALL that was intended. In foreign trade, it was a different matter, as that could be potentially disrupted during hostilities or the importation of goods could be taxed (and was) to provide virtually all the revenues required by the Federal government. But you know all this. Yet you, like Frank Driftwood, persist in your fantasies.


427 posted on 11/25/2006 11:30:37 PM PST by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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