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Headless Thompson Gunner

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Re: What Goes Around Comes Around: M.Moore in Trouble
« Reply #25 on: May 20, 2007, 05:40:01 PM »
Diplomacy, including trade embargoes, is a power delegated to the Executive and enumerated in Article II, Section 2.  The 9th and 10th Amendments allows us to do as we will except as specified elsewhere in the Constitution.

Why is this hard to understand?
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Re: What Goes Around Comes Around: M.Moore in Trouble
« Reply #26 on: May 22, 2007, 08:50:16 AM »
Quote from: The Rabbi on May 20, 2007, 06:22:42 AM
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The Constitution is essentially a contract between the People and their government.
I think not.  Actually, the 'government' is the people and exists only at our pleasure.  It is not a separate entity into which we enter any sort of 'contract'.

agreed.
rolleyes Riiiiiiiiiight.

So you think that if we quote voting, they'll just go away?
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