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    If Democrats can gain unified control of the Federal Government, how should the legislatively respond to Trump v Anderson

    And unanimous verdict @ federal level.
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    Is the US Constitution Open to Interpretation?

    You have an uphill battle when the guy who wrote it explained what he wrote and its interpreted that way until the New Deal.
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    Is the US Constitution Open to Interpretation?

    But its NOT just an opinion, the Madisonian vision of that section of the Consititution is backed up by actual historical evidence and case law from the founding through the New Deal. There's no good faith reading of pre-New Deal interpretation that gets you there. None, zero.
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    Is the US Constitution Open to Interpretation?

    Yes because prior to the Amendment they couldn't control intrastate commerce AT ALL. But WITH RESPECT TO LIQUOR, they NOW had the power to control THAT, but ONLY that. But of course the amendment could've been much more general and simply allowed for Congress to ban the manufacture of anything...
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    Is the US Constitution Open to Interpretation?

    Yes and the guy who wrote it said exactly otherwise and it was interpreted like that until the New Deal. "It has been urged and echoed, that the power "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United...
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    Is the US Constitution Open to Interpretation?

    But then there's no point in a constitution at all, you're advocating for a government along the lines of 'parliamentary supremacy' But it wasn't so charged, it was designed to be a limited government of ENUMERATED powers. That would be absurd, they passed an Amendment for Prohibition and...
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    Putin warns again that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty is threatened

    History is history and there is an objective truth, the future hasn't been written yet. Who the **** are you to risk my family's life over ****ing Crimea. **** you. Its not that important to me.
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    Putin warns again that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty is threatened

    But he might not be thinking that. He might be thinking 'escalate to deescalate' there are MANY people who think he'd go nuclear over Crimea. https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA2510-1.html "Furthermore, if Ukraine does push beyond the pre-February 2022 line of control and manages to...
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    Putin warns again that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty is threatened

    I think in an all out nuclear strike that every city over 250k definitely takes a nuke. I saw that a while back on a show actually on 'History Channel' so yeah, maybe they're wrong, but there's a fair number of nukes out there.
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    Putin warns again that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty is threatened

    I hope you're right, but your premise is looking into the intent of people you obviously don't control. The Russians DO have a concept of 'escalate to deescalate' and Putin MIGHT calculate, rightly or wrongly, that the use of a tactical nuke might be a 'this far and no farther' kind of action...
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    Putin warns again that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty is threatened

    I'm not trading NYC for Crimea, **** that shit. If he tosses a nuke there will be a general panic unlike any you have ever seen before. At that point. The war MUST end right there and right then the Russians cannot get all-Ukraine, but the Ukrainians aren't getting 1991 borders either, they...
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    Is the US Constitution Open to Interpretation?

    -------------------- Some, who have not denied the necessity of the power of taxation, have grounded a very fierce attack against the Constitution, on the language in which it is defined. It has been urged and echoed, that the power "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to...
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    Is the US Constitution Open to Interpretation?

    Before the New Deal. What IS limited government, its the federal government's role as outlined in Article I, section 8. "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and...
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    Is the US Constitution Open to Interpretation?

    I know what classical liberalism is, but modern day liberals flat out do NOT believe in a limited government of enumerated powers. At one point when Madison vetoes the internal improvements bill he noted: "To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and...
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    Is the US Constitution Open to Interpretation?

    Indeed and the last thing liberals want is for federal authority to be limited. The problem of course is that the sole arbiter of federal power is the federal government itself. Your problem is that you want to pay lip service to the Constitution to be the legal underpinning for a...
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