[betty boop]

I believe that Madison, Jay, and Hamilton would be trying to make sense of the modern State as it is evolving so rapidly under constitutional aegis and they would be in substantial agreement.

RightWhale, I imagine the gentlemen you name are spinning in their very graves, mourning the death of the living principles that they had strived so hard to preserve "to ourselves, and our posterity" in constitutional form....

But you didn't answer my main question: Have you turned into a "Euro-weenie?"

[RightWhale]

What drives my search is the observation that there is no commerce or industry in outer space. Since we have obviously demonstrated that we can travel out there and do work, one might wonder what is holding up the development of outer space resources. There is tech, there are business plans, there is plenty of investment cash floating around not knowing what to do with itself.

So, what is the holdup? I am thinking it is the lack of private property rights, so why don't we have private property rights to outer space resources? All these investigations into metaphysics, tech, and political theory are directed toward not only seeing what the roadblock is but how to plant the dynamite to destroy the roadblock and open the infinite frontier.

[I got the rope]

But you didn't answer my main question: Have you turned into a "Euro-weenie?"

LOL. Burn.