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To: Mojave
You're arguing that the "Federal Judiciary is too powerful" while simultaneously demanding that it usurp powers explicitly delegated to Congress.

Incorrect. I'm demonstrating that the Court is not a reliable instrument for restraining the expansion of federal power; that in fact it is a consistent agent of federal expansion of power.

You are now begging the question of what power the commerce clause conferred on Congress. It apparantly doesn't mean what it meant. It means whatever you or the Court or Congress wants it to mean, and apparantly you're ok with that.

The commerce clause was understood to mean something specific and limited, not something universal and all-encompassing. The fact that you embrace such an absurd construction is telling.

76 posted on 10/16/2009 10:34:30 AM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: Huck
I'm demonstrating that the Court is not a reliable instrument for restraining the expansion of federal power

The Court should not be a super-legislative body, making policy as it chooses. Congress makes policy.

78 posted on 10/16/2009 10:37:09 AM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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