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To: Bigun
Please! Spare me your fallacious concerns as to to how YOU may think I may appear to others.

Not knowing anything about the court case you were asking questions about can't have helped you much.

Now I will answer yours!

Except that you didn't. Let me repeat the questions for you, which can be found in reply #362 BTW. Both relate to your claim that only powers explicitly granted to Congress exist. No powers are implied.

Q1: Then where did the power to create NASA and the Air Force come from? The Constitution explicitly allows only for an army and a navy.

Your answer, "The Air Force WAS a part of the army and could easily be so again." ignores the question completely. Yes, the Air Force WAS a part of the army and yes it was was specifically allowed under the powers granted Congress under Article I, Section 8, Clause 12. But the Constitution only specifically authorizes an Army and, in clause 13, a Navy. It does not specifically autorize a separate branch of the military known as an Air Force. So, is the power to establish a separate branch of the military known as an Air Force implied in Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 when it says Congress shall have the power to provide for the common defense, and should have the power to establish whatever military branch is needed to accomplish that? Or is the Air Force illegal since nothing in the Constitution specifically gives Congress the power to establish and fund it?

NASA was established by legislation passed in the 1950's and was never under any military branch, your incorrect claim to the otherwise notwithstanding. I suppose it could be incorporated into the Army or the Navy, but until it is and while it is a civilian operation what part of the Constitution specifically authorizes it? And if that part does not exist then isn't it, by your definition, illegal and unconstitutional?

Q2: Where does the Constitution expressly prohibits the states from expelling another state against its will?

The next question related to the 10th Amendment and your claim that no powers are implied, and you punted this one entirely. That requirement should extend to powers denied to the states by the Constitution, should it not? Then where does the Constitution specifically deny the states the power to expel another state against it's will?

So please, since I did answer your questions exactly as you had posted them then have the integrity to do the same to mine. If you can, that is.

I will however go further and say that YES! I think that about two thirds of what the federal government currently does is PATENTLY unconstitutional!

Perhaps. But I only asked you about two of them. Answer them please.

Now! Getting back to Marbury vs Madison!

Are you sure you want to go there? Since it was obvious from you questions that you hadn't the slightest clue on what Marbury v. Madison was don't you think you should take the time to read up on it first?

514 posted on 02/26/2010 9:52:14 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
I answered your questions with specificity and the fact that YOU reject my answers (why am I not surprised) in no way alters the fact that I did. As I said, befor and will repeat for you again here!

No state is more sovereign than any other state so no state or group of states can tell ANY other state or group of states what it can or cannot do! That is the sole purview of "the people" of each state individually acting through their elected representatives within the state.

519 posted on 02/26/2010 10:04:50 AM PST by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: Non-Sequitur

“NASA was established by legislation passed in the 1950’s and was never under any military branch, your incorrect claim to the otherwise notwithstanding.”

NASA was created from the NACA - a civilian research organization built in concert with and for the War Department.

Yes, it was “civilian”, but so is DARPA.


530 posted on 02/26/2010 11:34:02 AM PST by Favor Center (Targets Up! Hold hard and favor center!)
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