FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Not only have states never given corrupt Congress the specific power to regulate competition among manufacturers imo, doing so a politically correct spin on the Commerce Clause (1.8.3) imo, but just the opposite, the Founding States gave Congress the specific power to grant temporary monopoly power.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
Article I, Section 8, Clause 8: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries [emphasis added];"
"The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary, as distinguished from technical, meaning; where the intention is clear, there is no room for construction and no excuse for interpolation or addition [emphasis added]." —United States v. Sprague, 1931.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Regarding Congress’s Commerce Clause powers, why should Congress be able to break up a large, US-based manufacture when it has no power to break up that manufacturer's foreign competitors, particularly if bribes from foreign competitors are involved?
There’s a fundamental constitutional problem imo with Congress granting a company temporary monopoly power in the form of patents, and then turning around and breaking up that company in name of competition, particularly when misguided, post-17th Amendment ratification senators like Warren are arguably trying to break big companies up to win votes to stay in power.
Corrections, insights welcome.
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The Constitution is not a suicide pact. Google (among others) is threatening the very fairness of our electoral process. Once the Left achieves power, the Constitution will be shredded beyond any recognition. Google is, to put it none-too-mildly, a domestic enemy and must be treated as such. BREAK UP GOOG
The Constitution is not a suicide pact. Google (among others) is threatening the very fairness of our electoral process. Once the Left achieves power, the Constitution will be shredded beyond any recognition. Google is, to put it none-too-mildly, a domestic enemy and must be treated as such. BREAK UP GOOGLE!