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To: Nick Danger
"Congress is one of the parties; it is the entity empowered to act on behalf of the people of the United States in the matter of copyrights."

It has to act in accord with its charter as an agent, and in the case of the copyright and patent clause it has not, it exceeded that, yet the Court has let it. It is a signficant development that you might best be troubled about. Our charter with which we established and authorized this Congress and Court had one guiding precept oft stated by the Founders, yet only inplicit in the charter itself. That is rather than that we "empowered" Congress generally as if by some power of attorney, we did NOT. We enumerated its powers, and limited it to that enumeration, and in the case of copyright and patent, we said these "may" be provided for, not necessarily so, and we couched their term, "limited Times".

As Breyer pointed out -- for REAL property, perpetuity is 90 years, and it is irrational and a form of theft majestic that the virtual form of property claims a "limited" term beyond what is perpetuity for real.

In other words, the Court and the Congress have traversed beyond their legitimate grant of agency. They allow and promote an expansion of that agency that subsumes the rights of us owners and the proprieters.

Do you think you can limit them, in this aggrandization in your pet regards -- privacy and arms bearing? How is that?

126 posted on 01/15/2003 4:13:30 PM PST by bvw
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To: bvw
It has to act in accord with its charter as an agent, and in the case of the copyright and patent clause it has not, it exceeded that, yet the Court has let it.

Your view that the Congress and the Supreme Court are in violation of your opinions has been noted and logged. I'm afraid that's the best I can do.

127 posted on 01/15/2003 5:10:52 PM PST by Nick Danger (This tag may not be used to purchase vowels)
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