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To: robertpaulsen
"Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. "


226 posted on 05/16/2006 6:06:28 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic
Do you believe Washington meant for this resistance to be expressed as an undermining of the Commerce Clause? Why the subtlety?

If the states (or individuals) object to Congress regulating intrastate activities such as growing wheat, or private pilots, or recreational drugs, or guns near schools, certainly there are better ways of resisting Congress other than intentionally engaging in these illegal intrastate acts?

Oh, and I doubt that Washington was directing his remarks to that small minority who, unable to legitimately sway public opinion, take matters into their own hands and subvert constitutional Congressional regulatory efforts. That's not resisting "the spirit of innovation upon its principles" -- that's anarchy, pure and simple.

227 posted on 05/16/2006 8:33:17 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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