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To: robertpaulsen
Do you have some new information you'd like to share, some information that supports that statement?

Don't be an idiot.

Also, you are still confused about the term "regulating" and the term "prohibiting". One allows action while the other stops it. Until you understand the difference, STFU.

247 posted on 09/15/2006 10:48:50 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (Quam terribilis est haec hora)
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To: Dead Corpse
"Until you understand the difference, STFU."

The 'power to regulate commerce,' here meant to be granted, was that power to regulate commerce which previously existed in the States. But what was that power? The States were, unquestionably, supreme; and each possessed that power over commerce, which is acknowledged to reside in every sovereign State. The definition and limits of that power are to be sought among the features of international law; and, as it was not only admitted, but insisted on by both parties, in argument, that, 'unaffected by a state of war, by treaties, or by municipal regulations, all commerce among independent States was legitimate,' there is no necessity to appeal to the oracles of the jus commune for the correctness of that doctrine. The law of nations, regarding man as a social animal, pronounces all commerce legitimate in a state of peace, until prohibited by positive law. The power of a sovereign state over commerce, therefore, amounts to nothing more than a power to limit and restrain it at pleasure. And since the power to prescribe the limits to its freedom, necessarily implies the power to determine what shall remain unrestrained, it follows, that the power must be exclusive; it can reside but in one potentate; and hence, the grant of this power carries with it the whole subject, leaving nothing for the State to act upon.
-- Gibbons v Ogden, 22 U.S. 1 (1824)

This landmark case was decided in Chief Justice (and Founding Father) John Marshall's U.S. Supreme Court.

249 posted on 09/15/2006 11:09:30 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: Dead Corpse
Nothing will ever shut up those who insist that the word 'prohibit' means the same as 'regulate'.


"-- For the fact that they do so is proof positive that their argument is false, and proof presumptive that they know it is.
... Those who treasure the meaning of words, will treasure truth, and those who bend words to their purposes are very likely in pursuit of anti-social ones. The correct and honorable use of words is the first and natural credential of civilized status. --"

Historian Paul Johnson wrote the above while observing: "-- Beware of those who seek to win an argument at the expense of the language. --"
256 posted on 09/16/2006 12:24:09 PM PDT by tpaine
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