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To: jerky
Listen up, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution are explanations and practical situations to which the necessary and proper clause is applied. They are their because the wise founders figured that people with only half a deck (like you) might not be able to figure out what necessary and proper means. Department of education is not necessary or proper to the execution of the foregoing powers, (common defense, etc.)

The things you mentioned would be 'banned' even if the first 10 amendments did not exist because they are not necessary or proper to the execution of the authorized powers of the federal government.

61 posted on 10/01/2001 7:25:33 PM PDT by ewchil
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To: ewchil
Thank you for saving me the trouble of answering jerky's ignorant questions about a subject we should all know like the back of our hands. You done good.

The founding dads should have never gave-in to the anti federalists and adopted a BOR. It has only accomplished the one thing they were trying to avoid, idiots misconstruing the original Constitution.

71 posted on 11/16/2001 1:22:44 PM PST by Gumption
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