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Re: Granting the power to giveth, also to taketh. Unfortunately I don't have time today to debate these points. You're still not correct on understanding the Constitution. The General Welfare clause is also misinterpreted - many great quotes and writings from the authors of the document support this, including Madison who points out that if the General Welfare clause were meant to allow the federal government to do anything, then why would they bother to go to such lengths immediately following the clause to explain the limitations on the powers of Congress?
To claim that because the document is abused means that the whole thing is rotten is a fallacy. The problem is with lack of respect for the rule of law. You stated that because there have been so many changes that the Constitution is no longer valid, which is also a fallacious argument. Built into the Constitution is the path to change it, as was done to abolish slavery, give women the right to vote, ban alcohol, unban alcohol, etc. Tearing down the rule of law is what is at the heart of the matter, not changes in technology.
As far as shareholders go, a fool and his money are soon departed. Not researching where money is going is no justification to violate the first amendment guarantee to peaceably gather and petition the government. The irony behind all of the claims to the evils of what corporations do with 'free speech' is that the case the Supreme Court used to 'return' these rights was one involving a grass-roots 'corporation'.
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| said by I Use Dial:if the General Welfare clause were meant to allow the federal government to do anything, then why would they bother to go to such lengths immediately following the clause to explain the limitations on the powers of Congress? I didn't say these clauses could justify "anything." Just that they were included for a reason, obviously in addition to the enumerated powers. Similar to your argument, the enumerated powers can't render these clauses meaningless either.
However, the most important thing to remember is that the founding generation moved to the new constitution as part of a desire for larger, more effective and centralized government. Not the other way around (as advocates of minimal government and states' rights imply).
said by I Use Dial:You stated that because there have been so many changes that the Constitution is no longer valid, which is also a fallacious argument. I didn't say the Constitution isn't valid. I said it may not be as rigid and defined the way you insist it is. Just as the founding generation desired more effective and powerful government, each generation since has desired the same thing. And, the founding generation put rather broad grants of power in the Constitution to allow for it to be a living, breathing document. Not requiring amendment for every unforeseen change (such as the department of energy, labor, education, etc.).
You may not like that. But, you can't wave a wand and make those broad clauses vanish.
said by I Use Dial:As far as shareholders go, a fool and his money are soon departed. Not researching where money is going is no justification to violate the first amendment guarantee to peaceably gather and petition the government. The issue is whether putting your 401k money in an index fund (of 500 or 1000 companies) is a "peaceable gathering" for the purpose of petitioning government.
I don't believe anyone who does so is intending to support the political views of any of those companies. Insisting that they are (in a quest for ideological purity) undermines our system of representation.
If corporations were prohibited from exercising "free speech" as a naturally-born person, it would not prevent anyone (employed by or invested in) from exercising their free speech on behalf of the corporation, nor joining together to leverage their effort.
That's hardly a coercive exercise of government power. It simply begs the question of whether a "person" created by the state, and treated as a natural "person" who comprises the state is itself an act of coercion against those natural "persons." | |
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