>>Who would we be making a treaty with as part of colonizing the moon?
So back to my original point which was INVESTING in new territory. The Louisiana Purchase was that investment. I’m glad you agree with my analysis of the Constitution.
>>What’s vacuous is your identification of not spending taxpayer dollars on a moon base as “destroying entrepreneurial spirit.”
In another post, I stated that even Lewis and Clark were paid for by taxpayer dollars. The people and companies followed. The government frequently pays people to put their lives on the line, whether explorers or the military. Space is a frontier, just like the frontier that was the American West only 200 years ago.
The only Constitutional basis you've offered for that is treaty-making - which doesn't apply to space.
I've heard that it is the final frontier.