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To: Huck; WayneS
You can't have implied powers and few and defined powers

Sure you can. Think real hard. For instance, Article I Section 8 provides, "To establish Post Offices and Post Roads." By your twisted logic, Congress could not set postal rates. By mine, it is necessary and proper.

20 posted on 07/07/2011 12:03:02 PM PDT by Jacquerie (I know for certain the Constitution means what it says.)
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To: Jacquerie
Your "argument" is specious as usual. That you can find one or another implied power that is innocuous in no way negates the fact that implied government powers, when the government itself is the judge of those powers, in practice leads to virtually unlimited powers.

All one has to do is survey 200 -plus years of history to see that my statement is factual, and yours is ridiculous fantasy.

23 posted on 07/07/2011 7:58:08 PM PDT by Huck
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