[lentulusgracchus]

[Me] I disagree with some things they've done in the past, but I'm not looking for a screw job in the bottom of every Cracker Jack box, either.

If you understood the historic origins and scope of the treaty power in the Constitution, you would be.

I think I have your drift, and yes, Fedgov has been coloring outside the lines since Webster floated the first iteration of the "Mystical Union" crapola and John Quincy Adams floated the idea of pushing the South into secession, shouting "insurrection", and then using the succeeding military confrontation to "reorganize" the Southern States politically. Which, btw, is the best-kept secret in Civil War history; I didn't know anything about that, until people began trading comments on a passage in the new biography of Adams. Since the Civil War, Fedgov has "gone ape" and needs to be trimmed off and our constitutional damage redressed.

But the NRA isn't the problem here -- it's people like the Pew Trusts, the other assorted Prog-driven NGO's, and the international movable-feast class.

[Carry_Okie]

I think I have your drift, and yes, Fedgov has been coloring outside the lines since Webster floated the first iteration of the "Mystical Union" crapola and John Quincy Adams floated the idea of pushing the South into secession, shouting "insurrection", and then using the succeeding military confrontation to "reorganize" the Southern States politically.

Uh, no. It was before the ink was dry on the Constitution. It did involve the treaty power, it was debated, and it was rammed through anyway. Read the article.