[geeks] just to stir things up, a few predictions

[Matthew Braun]

> uh, are you ignoring all the things that john kerry is doing/has done
> that violate the us constitution?

Ok, you've accused Kerry of *violating* the Constitution, which would 
mean explicitly going against what the document says.
However, as you said, "the constititution does not provide for the 
following activities" but that does not mean that endorsing them 
violates anything.

The 10th Amendment reads:
	" 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."

So if a president proposes a system from your list, congress votes on 
it, and there are no state laws that bar said system, how would there 
be a violation?

There are some obvious entries in your list that do sound like 
violations (such as the free speech and gun control), but I'm not sure 
how subsidies (for example)  violate the constitution.

Allow me to say this: I am *not* arguing against you; rather,I'm trying 
to get a better understanding of the root of your claims. Civics class 
is far, far behind me, so issues of constitutional law are not 
something I'm very comfortable with, hence my questions.


--
"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's;
I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."

On Oct 25, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Michael Horton wrote:

> the constititution does not provide for the following activities.
> therefore, they must be done, if at all, at the state or local level
> (assuming that the us constition is worth following).
>
>     welfare, that is, any government subsidy
>        1. social security
>        2. medicare
>        3. medicaid
>        4. ssd (social security payments for the disabled)
>     gun control laws (above what is mentioned in the constitution)
>     restriction of free speech
>        - political speech: only permitting certain entities to make
> political comments
>        - religious speech
>        - commercial speech
>     health care: "hilliary" care as an example of what has been 
> proposed
>        absorb 17% of the us economy directly into the us government but
> would
>        make public every individual's private medical records
>        restrict travel and resettlement to different areas of the
> country
>        (that is, outside one's home district)
>     presidential "declarations" implemented but not rescinded
>     unemployment benefits (commonly called "welfare")
>     funding medical research not directly linked to federal government
> duties
>     commercial subsidies (tabacco, milk, coffee, etc., etc.)
>     competitive attacks on private entities (a la, the usps)
>     specific areas of public safety
>     public eduation (outside of military institutions)
>     a legislative and executive judicial system