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Article #28Re: *Some* Southerners Are STOOPID (WAS Battle flag
From: Lloyd R. Parker
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:11
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:11
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Dave Simpson (nospam@newsranger.com) wrote: : : Dave Simpson wrote: : : >>Whoa! Not the preamble -- article I, section 8 -- "provide for the : >>general welfare." Perhaps it's you who are ignorant of the constitution. : > : >There you go again with your errors. The "general welfare" clause : >is a qualification of the power to tax, which is the power granted to : >the federal government in Article 1, Section 8. Those who wrote the : >Constitution knew it, and even made it plain for all in the Federalist : >Papers -- it is no general grant of power. Those who claim it is such : >a grant are ignorant or liars and they flunk Constitutionality 101; the : >"general welfare" clause and the "commerce clause" obviously can't : >be misused as you believe they can. That's among the easiest of : >bogus claims to annihilate. : : Madison lays it to rest if you're unable to face hearing it from me. Madison is dead, and this is the 21st century, not the 18th. Ask Madison if he intended us to have an air force, or for freedom of the press to apply to television, or for candidates for president to take soft money, or for us to station troops in Japan to defend that country.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e1e4,b0c08251f4866110 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1e4,public X-Google-Thread: fc709,b0c08251f4866110 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc709,public X-Google-Thread: fa3bd,f368b316dcecd516 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa3bd,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-15 11:15:08 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.nyc.globix.net!uunet!ash.uu.net!finch!lendl.cc.emory.edu!emory.edu!not-for-mail From: lparker@emory.edu (Lloyd R. Parker) Newsgroups: stl.general,atl.general,alt.radio.talk.dr-laura Subject: Re: *Some* Southerners Are STOOPID (WAS Battle flag Followup-To: stl.general,atl.general,alt.radio.talk.dr-laura Date: 15 Jun 2001 14:11:24 -0400 Organization: Emory University Lines: 23 Message-ID: <9gdj4c$4vp$1@paladin.cc.emory.edu> References: <3B1D9A58.99A5C476@NuKeSpaM.ROCK> <slrn9i57ce.nj3.kt-alt@pug1.sprocketshop.com> <LUZU6.3434$pb1.129299@www.newsranger.com> <fToV6.5152$pb1.196753@www.newsranger.com> <9g5l0j$fof$1@paladin.cc.emory.edu> <MnuV6.5700$pb1.221761@www.newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Host: paladin.cc.emory.edu X-Trace: lendl.cc.emory.edu 992628685 4850 170.140.1.29 (15 Jun 2001 18:11:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@emory.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jun 2001 18:11:25 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0]