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To: no nau; rb22982; Dustbunny; mad_as_he$$
This Fourth Amendment stuff seems to be getting in the way of a lot of things the Federal Government wants to do--why don't we just repeal it?

Come to think about it, if there is a problem with the Second Amendment preventing the government from prohibiting people from possessing fully assembled guns, we probably need to repeal that also.

And by the way, one of the essential purposes of the First Amendment was to permit citizens to expose and describe in print, the malfunctions of elected public officials--Supreme Court has held Congress has the power to eliminate that right also (McCain Feingold)--First Amendment is really excessive at this point, as long as we are cleaning up the Constitution, probably ought to get rid of that also.

Habeas Corpus you say? I don't fully understand why it is that the courts have approved getting rid of that for citizens but if the courts say it is ok and the federal government wants to do it, might as well get rid of that also.

Since 1935, and Jones & Laughlin Steel, we have gotten rid of the limitation on the power of Congress to do whatever it wants, so why do we need all this language in the Constitution limiting the power of Congress to act at all--lets get rid of that also.

I could go on. Maybe what we need is a Constitutional Convention.

26 posted on 02/16/2008 8:51:41 AM PST by David (...)
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To: David
Our founding fathers are gravely disappointed in what we have done with our inheritance.
41 posted on 02/16/2008 9:20:36 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (John McCain - The Manchurian Candidate? http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm)
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