[Petronski]

One of the most dangerous things you can do to a Paulbearer is read them the actual contents of the Constitution. They become livid and unpredictable.

Keep it up and we might need to bump the Paulbearer Moonbattery Factor of this thread from Grape to Watermelon!

[Abcdefg]

You are the one who is having problems reading the entire sentence regarding HOW congess could promote science.

[wideawake]

The Constitution does indeed say that that Congress has authority to promote science by patent.

The Constitution also says that Congress is empowered to make laws necessary and proper for carrying such powers out.

Moreover Congress is authorized to defend the nation and enact all laws necessary and proper to that end as well.

One Constitutional question might be: what if a patent conflicts with national security?

Another might be: what if patents are not promoting science and useful arts, but impeding them?

Is the end that Congress is authorized to attain - "the promotion of the progress of the sciences and useful arts" trumped by the means, namely copyrights and patents?