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To: dcwusmc
So you favor interpreting the Constitution to suit YOUR wants... kinda like the Left Loonies, right?

The Constitution should be interpreted along the lines of its Framer's intentions and not along the reductionist lines favored by the cranks who opposed its adoption.

Just because the Constitution clearly states that fedgov doesn’t HAVE any authority that is not specified in the Constitution doesn’t mean anything unless it agrees with what YOU want...

The Constitution states nothing of the kind.

if that’s how you feel, come on out and say so. Join socialist democrat Ellen Tauscher when she talked about the Constitution being like her old blue dress (what IS it about you liberals and blue dresses, anyway???), which fit her once but no more and needs to be thrown away... or so radically altered as to be unrecognizable to anyone anymore.

I'm unsurprised by your unhinged puerility.

The Constitution is preserved not by the leftist solution of destroying it as advocated by the Tauschers of the world nor by the anarchist solution of paring its scope down to nothing as advocated by clowns like yourself and Ron Paul.

It is preserved by recognizing the Framers' intentions of building a representative government based on checks and balances that has the authority and the power to keep the American people strong and free.

237 posted on 09/12/2007 10:46:11 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake

The Constitution needs to be read and interpreted AS WRITTEN... the language is pretty simple. Particularly the Tenth Amendment. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” See how the words flow so freely... and so easy to understand... I do believe that THIS is exactly what the founders meant when they wrote it... But it appears that the clear wording of the Founders isn’t good enough for you, for some reason. Pity. You and Ellen.


253 posted on 09/12/2007 11:01:11 AM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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