I know there's a term for that phenomenon. What is it?
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Let's not forget the Commerce clause, by which the federal government can do anything it feels like.
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Not necessarily. The commerce clause lets you regulate interstate commerce, the abuse came when they later interpreted that to mean “anything that substantially impacts interstate commerce” which is just about any commerce thanks to the shit legal reasoning of Wickard v Filburn
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Sure. It's existence has been respected more than any other document intended to specify protection of human rights.
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“The Federal Reserve is a integral part of the Postal Service”
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I hope i get a chance to read "The Machiavellians."
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I suppose, my only point was that it seems like the necessary and proper clause is one of their chief methods of doing exactly that (finding implied powers tangentially related to an enumerated power) but I can’t deny their intent is to just do what they want and “reason” to it
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But then is that a bug in the constitution or does it say more about just how malicious the opposition is? You could craft the most perfect document and they’ll lecture you about how what you really meant to say is: (insert thing we want that you don’t like)
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There were tax rebellions almost immediately and the founders themselves crushed them violently. The founders themselves wipes their asses with the constitution. Alien and Sedition Act etc. What do you think paper can do against naked power?
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