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Originally Posted by Skerlnik
Ah, thank you, THAT'S the term I was thinking of.
Strict Constitutionalists seem to want to throw out the baby with the bathwater. Most people that want massive reductions in government don't realize just how much the government really does for us and how disrputive, chaotic and burdensome life might get. If we hacked everything back to 1781, we would become a third world nation overnight.
Most people don't want that, and it's no wonder proposals to hack remain on the fringe.
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To which I reply that enumerated authority is enumerated authority. It is not 'necessary' or 'proper' for our tax dollars to be spent for works of 'art.' That said, I took my own advise and began to read the debates yet again. I am up to June 21st. I will return upon completing my reading.
Lastly...you can rewrite it. There is a mechanism for just such a thing. Of course, it has proven more difficult and has been previously attempted without success. It is easier to amend than to call a constitutional convention.
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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat
Last edited by BoneDaddy : 07-24-2008 at 01:08 PM.
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