black@pundit.DEC (DON BLACK DTN 261-2739 MS: NIO/N13 LOC: POLE C6) (06/21/85)
>Mike Sykora, can I take your silence on the subject of financing >national defense a la Koenig's suggestion, as a sign that you agree >with me? I agree with you that "limiting the scope of democratic >control" makes sense -- if it is done as follows. I think that some >things (e.g. the things prohibited by the 1st amendment) should be >outside the power of the legislature (Congress), but that the >Constitution itself should be open to change by democratic procedures >(requiring more than a simple majority) -- much as it is now. > >Now, you haven't answered my question: HOW do YOU propose that >government should be "limited" to "its proper role"? By a non- >amendable constitution, or what? I gotta great revolutionary idea about "limiting government to its proper role." It's so simple it almost hurts. Instead of coming up with a brand new, non-amendable constitution, why not just strictly enforce the one we have, as our Founding Fathers intended it to be? --Don Black (...decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-pundit!black)