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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] Actually, DT just likes a good row. But we're getting off topic. The topic, of course, being that the interstate highway system was built to ensure that the Rooskies couldn't take out our transportation system. Of course, now I've got to go put some eyedrops in, because my eyes have turned to saucers. Be back in a jif. Ah, that's better. Once more unto the...post. "Unless, of course, being a member of said group precludes hating someone, as most religions do." I'm starting to run out of ways to creatively express my shocked surprise. "Sol System's brains ooze out through tiny holes in his skull and congeal in a puddle on his blue carpet." Too icky. "Sol System stands gobsmacked." Too esoteric. And it sounds like something that only mommies and daddies can do. My writer's block aside, I have two words for you. Please show me how they fit into the above statement. Crusade. Jihad. Your interpretation of the Constitution is a bit unnerving, to say the least. First of all, so far as I know, the American ideal is not "as many rights as the states can grab!" It is, instead, the rights of the individual that are paramount. In the service of that ideal, I will support whatever branch of government provides the best option. There is nothing inherently "good" about giving power to a smaller section of government. Example? Jim Crow laws. Quite simply, I don't place my trust in a branch of government simply because it is small. Better a decent U.S. Marshal than a corrupt Sheriff. Better the FBI than the LAPD. Secondly, the primary purpose of any society is to do for the community what the individual cannot. As much as we might like, my neighbors and I cannot construct a dam. Or fight a war. Or send humans to the moon. The Constitution was not meant to provide a detailed list of every possible power every person anywhere in the government could ever utilize in any situation. Rather, it is a foundation for other laws. As such, just because the document never says "Congreff shall have the right to declare October 17th National Jeri Ryan Day", it doesn't mean they can't. Were we talking about something that actually mattered, of course, it would be different. Congress cannot wage war, for example, and the President cannot declare it. If you were to say that such wars as Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, the Persian Gulf, etc, where unconstitutional, I might be more inclined to agree with you. (On a case by case basis, of course. I'm not saying that I think every conflict listed was either right or wrong.) [/QB][/QUOTE]

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