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To: Sopater
Then amend the constitution so that it can be done legitimately.

There is no need to amend the constitution to cover things which are already covered by it. Devices or substances that threaten the citizenry of the US, are already covered in the "Enemies, foreign and domestic" clause.

67 posted on 11/02/2017 3:14:26 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
There is no need to amend the constitution to cover things which are already covered by it. Devices or substances that threaten the citizenry of the US, are already covered in the "Enemies, foreign and domestic" clause.

Please, enlighten me to particulars of the "Enemies, foreign and domestic" clause of the US Constitution that gives the federal gov't this immense enumerated power. This is new to me.
68 posted on 11/02/2017 3:31:19 PM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: DiogenesLamp

... I wonder why no one bothered to tell congress about the “enemies foreign and domestic” clause in 1919 when they passed the 18th amendment. I guess they didn’t have constitutional scholars like you around back then.


70 posted on 11/02/2017 3:43:55 PM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: DiogenesLamp
the "Enemies, foreign and domestic" clause.

That phrase occurs nowhere in the Constitution, Mr. Penumbral Emanationist.

73 posted on 11/02/2017 3:47:32 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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