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To: mvpel

“The “original intent” was that the “general welfare” clause was NOT an unlimited grant of power”

No matter how many times you repeat that deceptive little fewmet of anti-reason, it will never become valid. No matter how many times you insist that the parrot is resting, it is dead.

No “unlimited grant of power” is required for a *limited* exercise of power. You are hoping that people won’t notice that drug prohibition is not in any way an “unlimited” exercise of power.

Most of us, though, understand that, and do not confuse a limited exercise of power with an unlimited exercise.


120 posted on 09/13/2009 3:37:22 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc
No “unlimited grant of power” is required for a *limited* exercise of power. You are hoping that people won’t notice that drug prohibition is not in any way an “unlimited” exercise of power.

Okay, now we're getting somewhere.

Where in Article I, Section 8, or anywhere else in the Constitution, is granted the power for Congress to prohibit the possession of certain kinds of plants or plant products set forth?

Since you agree that otherwise expansive terms are limited by the scope of the Constitution, I trust you can explain how prohibiting possession of certain plants or plant products is within that scope.

124 posted on 09/14/2009 12:25:14 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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