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Originally Posted by Bulgaroctonus
Article I of the Constitution grants legislative ability to Congress. Congress has in turn passes numerous acts bringing health agencies into existence. For instance:
FEDERAL FOOD AND DRUGS ACT OF 1906 (THE "WILEY ACT")
Congress had the right to do this.
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It sure does, now where is the right of descrimination in the policy? Article I does not give the government the right to regulate much of anything. This was done on purpose. People gave Congress the ability to do it, foolishly I must add.
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Originally Posted by Bulgaroctonus
Amendment X
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.
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Attacking your own argument now?
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Originally Posted by Bulgaroctonus
The creation of things like the FDA, EPA, and OSHA was not as procduct of stupidity. It was a product of health concern and foresight. Did people really give up their rights to have their health monitored?
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They gave up their right not to have their health monitored. Now you want to use that monitoring to attach extra taxes to people.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." - Louis D. Brandeis
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Originally Posted by Bulgaroctonus
If the government passes a law that was not provided for in the Constitution, it can only be struct down (to my knowledge) on grounds of 'unconstitutionality.'
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Unconstitutional is something that goes directly against something in the Constitution. Many state and federal laws have fallen to the restrictions on search and seizure in the Constitution, for example. You won't get rid of anything using the Tenth, not as long as there is a pro-big government Judicial branch.
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Originally Posted by Bulgaroctonus
So are you writing about a legal right? In that case, the legislature has rights to exercise its authority and make decisions.
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Within the framework of the Constitution, you're right. Descrimination is not a power granted by the Constitution.
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Originally Posted by Bulgaroctonus
The Pol Pot reference is silly.
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Not for as long as you're willing to let government decide what is good for you. It's right on the money...
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Originally Posted by Bulgaroctonus
I don't understand the 'two corners away' reference. What do you mean by that?
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Stupid Gobal Warming Alarmists I guess if you had read it when you quoted it in your next post, instead of making a silly statement, you'd have remembered it...