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To: justshutupandtakeit

The "view" which you argue was incorporated into the Constitution was NOT incorporated into it because it was not WRITTEN into it. What is in there is in there. What is NOT in there is not in there, no matter how badly YOU want it to be.


117 posted on 02/22/2006 9:14:00 AM PST by WayneS (Follow the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th.)
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To: WayneS

Unfortunately for your argument the CC discussed limiting the Constitution to what was written and rejected the idea.
The proposal to put in a phrase limiting federal power by adding the word "explicitly" to the powers granted was voted down.

It is intended to be a framework not a straightjacket.


174 posted on 02/22/2006 12:24:43 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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