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To: Publius
Implied powers + Article 3 = unlimited power.

The answer isn't to check some branch against the judiciary. The answer is to expressly delegate federal powers, in a truly federal (not national) system.

You can't be federal and national at the same time. And you can't have limited powers AND implied powers, most especially when you have an unaccountable judiciary.

3 posted on 12/20/2010 12:36:53 PM PST by Huck (Antifederalist BRUTUS should be required reading.)
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To: Huck; All

what it comes down to is that WE THE PEOPLE must take control and keep all branches in line... when we don’t we get the supreme shaft...

teeman


7 posted on 12/20/2010 2:00:27 PM PST by teeman8r (Act nobly, behave humbly. Not the other way around.)
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To: Huck
You can't be federal and national at the same time.

In Federalist #39, Madison parsed those aspects of the system that were federal versus those that were national. I take it you disagree with his paper.

9 posted on 12/20/2010 2:36:48 PM PST by Publius (No taxation without respiration.)
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To: Huck

Please be kind enough to show me in the Constitution, not some court decision but the Constitution itself, where anything the judicial branch does in any way binds either of the other two co-equal branches of government.

There is a very good reason why the founders neglected to give the Judicial branch ANY enforcement capabilities!


14 posted on 12/21/2010 7:10:09 AM PST by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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