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To: oblomov

Off the top of my head, anything past the 10th was a bad idea


18 posted on 06/05/2007 11:12:54 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("I fear we have woken a sleeping giant and filled her with a terrible resolve" - Osama 9-11-01?)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
Off the top of my head, anything past the 10th was a bad idea...

The Bill of Rights itself was hotly debated during the convention and ratifying process.I think we'd have been better off without it.Why,for example,would we prohibit the government from doing what it hasn't the power to do?This could only lead to the assertion that the government has powers that are not explicitly stated in the constitution.And so it has...

Had no other enumeration or definition of the powers of the Congress been found in the Constitution, than the general expressions just cited, the authors of the objection might have had some color for it; though it would have been difficult to find a reason for so awkward a form of describing an authority to legislate in all possible cases. A power to destroy the freedom of the press, the trial by jury, or even to regulate the course of descents, or the forms of conveyances, must be very singularly expressed by the terms "to raise money for the general welfare."Federalist # 41 Madison

50 posted on 06/05/2007 12:57:28 PM PDT by hschliemann
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