Makes me chuckle. I was out fishing today with my wife at a state park, and while walking along a footpath, we heard a boy call out to his mother, "Mommy, Mommy, I am King of the Universe!" There, I thought to myself, is where the trouble begins. :-)
Dear Huck, did you think for a moment that I was advancing a "preference" here? I know very well that the scenario I laid out is completely unrealizable in our present day and age. There is no way to go home again, as the story goes.
If a tyrant such as I claimed to be were ever to do such a thing as I "proposed" in my last, there would be great wailing and knashing of teeth abroad in the land; millions of people employed in the "complaince business" -- mainly lawyers and tax accountants and professional consultants specializing in the regulatory field -- would have to find higher value jobs; and teachers would actually be required to master their subjects before imparting them to our young; the professional tax consumers organizations would be out of work; etc., etc., yada yada yada. So it would never happen. (This list is very, very long.)
Yet zillions of federal statutes instantly would fall off the books under my little scenario, lacking a bona fide constitutional warrent.
Not to mention that any such tyrant or dictator in America to impose such a regime as that contemplated by the Framers would be almost instantly assassinated.
Huck, I think you may have missed my point altogether. best, bb.