tac@teldata.UUCP (08/01/84)
, (sop to the blank line eaters--consider it a religious sacrifice)
As an adjunct to the note that Shaun put in about the state of roads in
this country I would like to add two notes out of the US Constitution.
The first deals with federal powers (Article I Section 8) under what
"Congrefs shall have Power ..."
"To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
I would add that nowhere else in the document does it deal with roads.
The second note is actually from the Bill of Rights (see below for a
discussion). It is
"Article the twelfth. The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respectively or to the people."
What need I add, except that we would have a lot less overhead if
we made the feds live up to their charter!
Now, as to the Bill of Rights, let me add that the studies I have done
have indicated that the Constitutional Convention argued for about a
week on whether or not to include one in the original document (for
those who don't know, it was added by the first "Congrefs of the United
States"). The decision not to include one was made on the basis of the
argument that if an innumeration of rights was included it would imply
that all rights not included would not be granted. This has proved
to be the case. Each time we feel that a right is not being granted
we feel bound to enter it, in spite of Article 12 of the BoR.
>From the Soapbox of
Tom Condon {...!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac}
A Radical A Day Keeps The Government At Bay.
(and we been a little short of late)
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