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To: robertpaulsen
robertpaulsen wrote:

So the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations gives Congress the [wartime] power to prohibit -- but the power to regulate commerce among the several states does not give Congress the power to prohibit.
Uh-huh.

The 'bold' change is mine..

Your inability to understand Constitutional principles is well established paulsen.. --- Thanks for displaying it yet again.

29 posted on 06/09/2005 8:09:34 PM PDT by P_A_I
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To: P_A_I
"So the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations gives Congress the [wartime] power to prohibit."

The 'bold' change is yours ... your mistake.

Look up Jefferson's 1807 Embargo against England and France. We weren't at war with them then.

And Jefferson's Secretary of State at the time was the man who wrote the Constitution. You think he would have said somehing about that, huh?

33 posted on 06/09/2005 8:35:52 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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