To: Non-Sequitur; lentulusgracchus
[Nonseq]
Nothing at all in the Constitution or any of the first 12 amendments to it prevents Congress from outlawing slavery in the territories. The Constitutional question is whether any such power was delegated to the Congress. All powers not delegated were reserved to the States or to the people.
Your argument speciously claims, as it must, that all powers obtain to the Federal government which are not specifically denied to it.
54 posted on
10/26/2004 11:12:10 AM PDT by
nolu chan
(What's the frequency?)
To: nolu chan; Non-Sequitur
Your argument speciously claims, as it must, that all powers obtain to the Federal government which are not specifically denied to it. Exactly. He's grokking Hamilton and channeling Marshall.
Who were both channeling Hobbes.
To: nolu chan
The Constitutional question is whether any such power was delegated to the Congress. All powers not delegated were reserved to the States or to the people. It was, in Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2.
59 posted on
10/26/2004 11:16:08 AM PDT by
Non-Sequitur
(Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
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