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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay: [QB] Never being one to miss out on a good Constitutional argument I must comment. But first I haven't read this thread for a couple of days because, well because I thought it was going to come down to my religious dogma can beat up your scientific research any day. Firstly: "Before the New Deal, the government was small, and had little control over many things. That is true." isn't exactly true. With every major military conflict that the United States engaged in, the government grew. The major growth of the U.S. government came with the Civil War. The New Deal era represents the culmination of events that began with the necessity of saving the Union or loosing the American experiment in democracy forever. Moreover, the regulatory powers of the government began in earnest in the 1890's. As the people of the U.S. learned that the unchecked growth of corporate robber barrons constituted a serious threat to the health and saftey of the people who worked for them. Which leads to a point that a strict literal interpretation of the Constitution is bollocks, and remains the fantasy of the right-wing. The beauty of the Constitution is that is has survived for so long because the framers left leeway in the document that allows it to grow and to come to terms with modernity. The framers were wise enough to understand that the future would bring events that people like an Adams or a Jefferson could never invision in their strangest dreams. Take the creation of the atomic bomb for example. Does the 2nd Amendment cover in terms of specific languange that I, as a memeber of a "well regulated militia" can have one in my basement? Hmm, not covered. I'll put one on my shopping list. In a very real way, in the federal system of the United States, there exists the primacy of the Federal Government over the individual states to insure that the body lives inspite of the resistance of the foot. The Preamble reads "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish the Constitution of the United States of America." The healthy polity of the United States rests on the balance of vague phrases and specific language of the Constitution...and the living, expanding intrepretation thereof. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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