[metmom]

"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."

js: This is the only power granted to Congress for which the means to accomplish its stated purpose are specifically provided.

So what? Religion and science do not stand equal before the Constitution. Of the two, one, and only one, is enumerated.

Article 1 Section 8 deals specifically with taxes, duties, levies, etc. Allowing for patents is not the same as the establishment clause in the Bill of Rights.

[js1138]

So what? Religion and science do not stand equal before the Constitution. Of the two, one, and only one, is enumerated.

Pardon me. I thought you were using the term "enumerated" the way people in this universe use it.