Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree with Joe that the Constitution is in serious need of modernization, especially the amendment used by the gun wackos to justify the free availability of firearms. The fundamentalist position on the Constitution reminds me of the episode of the Simpsons where the police chief and the mayor are looking at Springfield statutes and discover that one of them has a right to a pig every year and the other a maiden of good repute... As for government by the states, to me this conjures images of Southern governors in the 1960s resisting the advance of civil rights etc. and only standing down when forced by the federal government. I am with the Feds on this one. I agree that some things should be left to the states; but unless you do not believe in the USA as a single country, you must admit that the areas Buzz mentioned are best managed by the federal government. Would you really want to have an air traffic control system run by the states? Nathan Marc James Small wrote: > Read the US Constitution and tell me where this authorizes, for instance, > "air traffic controllers" or where it requires the US government to > consider the adoption of firearms laws. Tell me where, and under what > provision, welfare is justified. Tell me where the Constitution authorizes > the Federal Government to worry itself with whether trucks are overweight > or whether the environment is healthy or not. > > Many of these ARE governmental concerns but, under our system of limited > Federal government, they are STATE matters and not Federal matters at all. > > This has been forgotten by virtually every one in today's US of A, but the > States are to have control of almost all of the governmental functions. > Read your copy of the Constitution and figure it out for yourself. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium General photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator Belgium photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman