On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:26:30 -0700, Doug Winterburn wrote:

It's very material unless you believe the Constitution is immaterial.
Again, read the 10th amendment.

I do believe the Civil War (among other things) more or less ignored the
10th amendment. The Constitution, or at least the literal interpretation
of it, was on life support even before that.

Do you really believe that health care even entered the founders minds,
considering its primitiveness at the time? See death of G. Washington.

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