Anyway, he claimed on this thread in front of God and everybody that Congress had "no power" under Article I to bar US trade with Cuba. There are a lot of dumb statements that get by me, because I only know a few subjects cold. But the Constitution is one of them. (It's a trade hazard of practicing in the Supreme Court.)
When someone misstates the plain language of the Constitution, that pushes all my buttons. I have no problem. Demidog has a lot of them.
Anytime I see a flat-out misstatement of the Constitution on any thread on FR, I try to clear it up on the spot. Usually I am most polite. But some folks neither understand polite, nor warrant it. The thread readers, however, still deserve a clarification re: the Constitution.
Thanks for putting up the quote from that document. I didn't have the document on my desk as I wrote, and I'm careful not to misquote the Constitution by typing from memory.
Cheers,
Congressman Billybob
New column up: "The Un-Music Man." You'll like this one a bunch.
Finally you get it right. What'd it take you? 7 posts of BS before you actually read it and got it right?
The term regulate cannot by any stretch of the imagination be taken to mean prohibit. Prohibition is not regulation.
The act of prohibiting trade would in fact repudiate regulation as then there would be nothing at all to regulate.