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To: ConservingFreedom

Well, if that’s what they wanted, then there would have been little need to give congress the power to make law.

So now we have come full circle again...In a circular argument that has been made constantly in every generation for numerous reasons, usually for freedom issues that argue against one restriction or another.

Interesting exercises, and they probably need to be done from time to time.


192 posted on 11/12/2015 12:43:28 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: Cold Heat
No, they would have the explicitly enumerated powers, e.g., coin money, and raise and support armies.

Yes, they would...they could meet for three days once per year. They would have nothing else to do.

Which is how the Founders envisioned it. Now you're finally catching on.

Well, if that’s what they wanted, then there would have been little need to give congress the power to make law.

The Constitution gives Congress ONLY the power "To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof." The Constitution does NOT gives Congress the power to make any law outside those explicitly enumerated powers.

You really should read one of those copies of the Constitution you've been handing out.

194 posted on 11/12/2015 12:50:37 PM PST by ConservingFreedom (a "guest worker" is a stateless person with no ties to any community, only to his paymaster)
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