Doug Winterburn wrote in
eb.com:

On 12/26/2011 10:20 AM, Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:16:23 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote:

My advice to CONgress: Read the damned Constitution and try to
follow its guidelines. It says nothing about abortion, gays,
mandatory health insurance to private companies, or anything like
that.

Actually, it doesn't say much about anything other than the things
affecting an agrarian society ruled by landed white males.

And of course it doesn't say anything about health care. Back then
that consisted of folk remedies, bleeding, setting bones, and
amputating limbs.


The 10th amendment says quite a bit. Of course, FDR effectively
repealed the 10th amendment.

I am (now) not arguing one way or the other, but Wikipedia says
(referring a bit to the Articles of Confedderation):

After the Constitution was ratified, some wanted to add a similar
amendment limiting the federal government to powers "expressly"
delegated, which would have denied implied powers.[3] However, the word
"expressly" ultimately did not appear in the Tenth Amendment as ratified,
and therefore the Tenth Amendment did not reject the powers implied by
the Necessary and Proper Clause.

As a "living" document, and since the SCOTUS has ultimate interpretation
(and re-interpretation), the Constitution remains ope to discussion.

And that's my final answer ...
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Best regards
Han
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