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To: Ff--150
Just change colors from blue to red, and get the job done--but with a different political party...

Damn the Constitution - Full speed ahead?

'[T]he nature of federal-state relations changed fundamentally after the Civil War. That conflict produced in its wake a tremendous expansion in the scope of the Federal Government's lawmaking authority, so much so that the persons who helped to found the Republic would scarcely have recognized the many added roles the National Government assumed for itself.'
Justice White, [dissenting]New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992)

6 posted on 06/26/2003 10:36:44 AM PDT by 4CJ ("No man's life, liberty or property are safe while dims and neocons are in control")
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
a tremendous expansion in the scope of the Federal Government's lawmaking authority

Buckminster Fuller wrote that whenever something becomes too big it dies or becomes much, much smaller. Sadly, this national government is way too big and must die.

8 posted on 06/26/2003 11:11:27 AM PDT by Ff--150 (100-Fold Return)
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