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To: justshutupandtakeit
Can't do it though. As these grandstanders will find out soon enough.

Maybe not, but I am glad these Montanta legislators have the same spirit as the Founders, who did not "just shut up and take it". We were paying much less confiscatory taxes to King George than we are now. But they did just sit there afraid of offending the King. I would like to see more states tell the imperial feds in DC take a flying leap. What are they going to do? Send in troops?

13 posted on 02/20/2005 9:23:22 AM PST by StockAyatollah
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To: StockAyatollah

If you believe a freely elected government is the equivalent of being a Royal possession then you don't understand much about our founding or the basis of our government. Your remarks wrt this nutiness clearly show your lack of understanding as regards our constitution.


14 posted on 02/21/2005 1:07:00 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: StockAyatollah
Don't mind justshutupandfakeit. He's an Alexander Hamilton-worshipper who thinks that our bloated federal government is and should be an all powerful unchallenged body that has the power to strike down anyone and anything that gets in its way.

If you look at the constitution, Montana is doing EXACTLY what it has the right to do. The Supremacy Clause that people like fake-it worship reads as follows:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land

Note the underlined section. It means that any federal law that is NOT "made in pursuance" of the constitution is in fact NOT supreme and NOT constitutional. Since Amendments 9 and 10 are very much a part of the constitution (as is Article I Section 8 which only gives congress the power to regulate commerce between the states, foreign nations, and indian tribes but NOT within the states themselves), any attempt of the federal government to prevent Montana from doing what it is doing would be unconstitutional by its act and invalid under the very same supremacy clause that people like fake-it purport to be an enforcing mechanism.

24 posted on 02/21/2005 5:49:51 PM PST by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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