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To: dsc
I’m being calm and patient, while I wait for you to understand that there is a difference between excess and the proper exercise of power.

What is "excess" except in relation to some fixed standard, such as the Constitution?

What's the point of a discussion board like this one if you're not willing to "discuss," and instead just sit there waiting for me to divine your point through mental telepathy?

110 posted on 09/11/2009 2:18:21 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: mvpel; dsc
I found someone who supports dsc's take on the General Welfare Clause!

MSNBC says the 10th amendment is "a bunch of baloney"

That according to brilliant constitutional scholar MSNBC's David "biased in favor of facts" Shuster, who matter-of-factly insists the "general welfare" clause in Article 1 of the Constitution "unambiguously authorizes" social welfare spending like "social security, Medicare...

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338232/posts

111 posted on 09/12/2009 3:34:14 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: mvpel

“What is “excess” except in relation to some fixed standard, such as the Constitution?”

When the Constitution is silent on some matter, one must reason from original intent, applying the reasonable man standard.

Problem is, you reason incorrectly.


113 posted on 09/12/2009 9:40:28 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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