12-31-2016, 04:03 AM
(12-30-2016, 08:06 AM)Odin Wrote:(12-29-2016, 11:20 PM)Galen Wrote: the federal government has been operating well beyond the limits of the Constitution for decades.
The SCOTUS obviously disagrees.
Doesn't mean that they are right. Having read the Constitution, Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist papers, I can be quite confident about the limits the federal government is supposed to have. I doubt that you or Eric the Obtuse will bother to do this since reading what the people who wrote the Constitution had to say about won't give you the answer you want.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises