Originally Posted by
ConHog
Rev, like I said in another thread, fond memories aside, the founding fathers weren't perfect. In fact the COTUS is pretty poorly written in areas and hard to know what they really meant. So yes, you are right, sometimes people jam stuff in and interpret the COTUS to make it fit; but on the other hand you have to admit that sometimes people like you use the ambiguity to claim that things that most people accept as constitutional are not constitutional.
Take the EPA , for example. It's pretty clear that the EPA didn't just spring out of thin air, rather it came about for a reason. That reason being that states were fighting about pollution that was crossing state lines.
You keep saying it is a local problem, but I would suggest that CA would have a legitimate beef that it is not a local problem if Washington is letting companies dump waste into the river water and that waste is migrating to CA drinking supply; just as an example. that makes it interstate commerce
I never said EPA came out of thin Air or that the constitution was perfect, however the FFs did make a provision for adding powers they did not include in the cotus. It's called adding amendments. So rather than shoe horning pollution control laws into "commerce" (ha!), an amendment should have been written to give congress power to make laws dealing with pollution. And we both know the EPA probably assumes that whether or not it crosses state lines significantly or has to do with biz it's still under their purview. so the interstate bit is really just a handle to try to make it look legit.
Last edited by revelarts; 06-20-2012 at 08:46 AM.
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