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To: dcwusmc; wideawake
or to the people

..and what is the Congress? A Representative voice of the people.. it loops right back on Article 1- All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States...

267 posted on 09/12/2007 11:14:19 AM PDT by mnehring (What does the Ron Paul Rorschach test say about you?)
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To: mnehrling; dcwusmc
and what is the Congress? A Representative voice of the people.. it loops right back on Article 1- All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States...

An excellent observation, since the US Congress definitionally is the representative body of the people of the whole United States and not of the individual states.

277 posted on 09/12/2007 11:20:35 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: mnehrling; dcwusmc; wideawake
..and what is the Congress? A Representative voice of the people.. it loops right back on Article 1- All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States...

I do believe this is the first time I've heard the argument made that when the Constitution says "the people" it really means the Congress.

Does that mean the proper reading of the Second Amendment should be that Congress has the right to keep and bear arms?

279 posted on 09/12/2007 11:22:05 AM PDT by ksen ("For an omniscient and omnipotent God, there are no Plan B's" - Frumanchu)
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