4/ We could get rid of parole boards, perhaps. Let every prisoner serve out the full term. That'd make government smaller, right?
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5/ And then we've got pesky laws that stop teachers and police from campaigning for candidates from office. More laws that we can strike down! Smaller government, yeah!
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6/ Or, perhaps, we have built up a terrible edifice where beam leans against beam, somewhat counter balancing each other, even as they make something grotesque and evil. ...and the ORDER in which we remove the components matter.
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7/ Public defenders should be among the last to go (as you yourself agree, I think,
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The constitution only specifically outlines a few things that are the responsibility of the federal government, but surely “guard the shores” is one of them.
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It also suggested that the Post Office and fiat currency were awesome, is the constitution still your best friend?
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Replying to @LucyStag @BevevinoJohn
USPS and fiat currency are non ideal (I prefer an ancap marketplace), but they're hardly the kill shot for "hey, the constitution - as written - is a decent miniarchist document"
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No, but think about what the Post Office has been used for. It sounds benign, but beyond booting Spooner out of the way, it was a lovely in-road for censorship and surveillance. What might border control be?
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Replying to @LucyStag @BevevinoJohn
ok, this leads into another really big complicated discussion of "the const is pretty small, and yet it had vulnerabilities that allowed statists to exploit it into a big gov; how do we architect against that for next time?"
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Replying to @MorlockP @BevevinoJohn
Not small enough. Even if it has stayed the size it claimed to be. I still want to use that sexy Ninth Amendment, though. Why are we all pretending it's not there again?
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agreed there; I read the Constitution in college, read the 9th and 10th, and "woke up". HOLY CRAP; 95% of what the USG does is illegitimate...by its own rules!!!
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As far as I know, there's almost no precedent re the Ninth Amendment, so there's nothing to work off? And Scalia called it an ink blot (which kind of undermines his "ORIGINALISM GUYZ" rep). But it's THERE!
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