[Cboldt]

I hear what you are saying, and I mean no ill will. But your perception of how the law would work if it followed precedent is mistaken. Basically, you are saying that congress has the power to make natural, and that leads to bad and absurd results, putting Act of Congress superior over the constitution.

Your error is a common one, easy to make, and even tempting to make.

I am unmovable from my belief on this issue, and suggest that we just leave it at that, so as to not generate any expression of hostility here on FR, nor bad feelings toward one another aside from what we post.

[taxcontrol]

The constitution put the power in Congress per Article I Section 8.

“To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;”

To follow the logic put forward by the NBC definition crowd, there would not be uniform rules of bankruptcies because of some extra-constitutional document that defines the word bankruptcies in a manner different from Congress’s definition.