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		<title>By: NAHALKIDES</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/walter-williams/the-constitution-or-good-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-5406722</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Certainly that is the opening wedge of statism, as the Federal District Judge who struck down Obamacare realized.  Unfortunately, 5 Supreme Court Justices can&#039;t see that.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Certainly that is the opening wedge of statism, as the Federal District Judge who struck down Obamacare realized.  Unfortunately, 5 Supreme Court Justices can&#8217;t see that.</p>
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		<title>By: Bob in Florida</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bob in Florida]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to the author&#039;s &#039;bottom line&#039; question, &quot;My bottom line question is: Should we be ruled by what are seen as good ideas or by what’s permissible by the U.S. Constitution?&quot;, I would respond that: &quot;We should be ruled by what are seen as good ideas AND what&#039;s permissible by the U.S. Constitution.&quot;   

There are many good ideas that should rule how we live our lives: however, there are many of those same good ideas that do NOT NEED TO BE LAWS and are NOT ALLOWED TO BE LAWS to rule our lives.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In response to the author&#8217;s &#8216;bottom line&#8217; question, &#8220;My bottom line question is: Should we be ruled by what are seen as good ideas or by what’s permissible by the U.S. Constitution?&#8221;, I would respond that: &#8220;We should be ruled by what are seen as good ideas AND what&#8217;s permissible by the U.S. Constitution.&#8221;   </p>
<p>There are many good ideas that should rule how we live our lives: however, there are many of those same good ideas that do NOT NEED TO BE LAWS and are NOT ALLOWED TO BE LAWS to rule our lives.</p>
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		<title>By: Lightbringer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day that government started to provide medical care for members of its civilian population is the day that it took upon itself the right to determine what we may eat, how often and how we must exercise, whether or not we may smoke, and so forth.  Which is why this civilian does not like government-paid medical care for anyone, other than the captive populations of the military and the penal system.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The day that government started to provide medical care for members of its civilian population is the day that it took upon itself the right to determine what we may eat, how often and how we must exercise, whether or not we may smoke, and so forth.  Which is why this civilian does not like government-paid medical care for anyone, other than the captive populations of the military and the penal system.</p>
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		<title>By: seewithyourowneyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 20:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best way to promote good ideas is to allow those people who adopt bad ideas to suffer the consequences of their ill-advised actions.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The best way to promote good ideas is to allow those people who adopt bad ideas to suffer the consequences of their ill-advised actions.</p>
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		<title>By: NAHALKIDES</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/walter-williams/the-constitution-or-good-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-5406625</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Williams did not go on to explain is that the proper purpose of government is to maintain individual rights, not compel behavior that those who govern decree to be beneficial.  He also did not point out, probably due to shortness of space, how deadly is the principle that government may use force to compel the citizen to engage in activities the state finds &quot;beneficial&quot; because such power must always be arbitrary.  Today exercise, tomorrow gun confiscation, the day after compulsory demonstrations in support of our Dear Leader.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What Williams did not go on to explain is that the proper purpose of government is to maintain individual rights, not compel behavior that those who govern decree to be beneficial.  He also did not point out, probably due to shortness of space, how deadly is the principle that government may use force to compel the citizen to engage in activities the state finds &#8220;beneficial&#8221; because such power must always be arbitrary.  Today exercise, tomorrow gun confiscation, the day after compulsory demonstrations in support of our Dear Leader.</p>
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		<title>By: NAHALKIDES</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/walter-williams/the-constitution-or-good-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-5406624</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NAHALKIDES]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;We&quot; may know it, but there are obviously 4 or 5 Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court who don&#039;t.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;We&#8221; may know it, but there are obviously 4 or 5 Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court who don&#8217;t.</p>
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		<title>By: Johnny</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately the so called good ideas are most frequently only selling points used to push constituency driven partisan politics. The Constitution is being trashed not for improvement, but for the sake of political gain by those who are trashing it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unfortunately the so called good ideas are most frequently only selling points used to push constituency driven partisan politics. The Constitution is being trashed not for improvement, but for the sake of political gain by those who are trashing it.</p>
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		<title>By: adamjw2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, we should not be ruled by good ideas alone. The ideas established in the Constitution are time tested, unlike most of these ideas some bureaucrat came up with while sitting on the john.


Will and Ariel Durant explain it better than I could: 
&quot;Out of every 100 new ideas, 99 or more will probably be inferior to the
traditional responses which they propose to replace.  No one man however brilliant or well informed can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of society.  For these are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, we should not be ruled by good ideas alone. The ideas established in the Constitution are time tested, unlike most of these ideas some bureaucrat came up with while sitting on the john.</p>
<p>Will and Ariel Durant explain it better than I could:<br />
&#8220;Out of every 100 new ideas, 99 or more will probably be inferior to the<br />
traditional responses which they propose to replace.  No one man however brilliant or well informed can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of society.  For these are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Paul Marks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Williams is being ironic, but some people may not understand this so I will formally explain.... Out of context (and with edits) - actually the text of Article One, Section Eight says &quot;the common defence and general welfare&quot; - this being the PURPOSE of the specific spending powers then listed (under this preamble) granting the Congress the power (if it wishes) to spend money of various specific things.
If there were such a thing as a &quot;catch-all&quot; &quot;general welfare spending power&quot; (rather than the &quot;common defence and general welfare&quot; being the PURPOSE of the specific spending powers) then the list of specific spending powers is pointless, and the Tenth Amendment (limiting the Federal government) is meaningless.
As for &quot;regulate interstate commerce&quot; this clearly means (in context) establish free trade over State lines (it gives the Federal government the power to strike down State restrictions on trade) it is NOT about the Federal government controlling people&#039;s lives.
&quot;We know all this Paul&quot; - yes, but in these degenerate days such things have to be made very plain.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Professor Williams is being ironic, but some people may not understand this so I will formally explain&#8230;. Out of context (and with edits) &#8211; actually the text of Article One, Section Eight says &#8220;the common defence and general welfare&#8221; &#8211; this being the PURPOSE of the specific spending powers then listed (under this preamble) granting the Congress the power (if it wishes) to spend money of various specific things.<br />
If there were such a thing as a &#8220;catch-all&#8221; &#8220;general welfare spending power&#8221; (rather than the &#8220;common defence and general welfare&#8221; being the PURPOSE of the specific spending powers) then the list of specific spending powers is pointless, and the Tenth Amendment (limiting the Federal government) is meaningless.<br />
As for &#8220;regulate interstate commerce&#8221; this clearly means (in context) establish free trade over State lines (it gives the Federal government the power to strike down State restrictions on trade) it is NOT about the Federal government controlling people&#8217;s lives.<br />
&#8220;We know all this Paul&#8221; &#8211; yes, but in these degenerate days such things have to be made very plain.</p>
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