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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (125137)	2/26/2004 5:02:18 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) of 281500

I do not consider Jefferson to be the sole authority on what the Founding Fathers may have intended. Alexander Hamilton liked the idea that the president could conduct foreign affairs with "secrecy and dispatch" as Commander in Chief. The fact is that the Supreme Court has chosen not to curtail presidential powers on this score, nor has the Congress made more than modest attempts to assert itself. It is not new, although examples have multiplied since World War II. You may not like it, but then, conservatives do not like the practical abrogation of the 10 amendment, using the commerce clause as a rationale for the extension of federal power, and are not likely to gwet their way anytime soon. It is part of the "evolving Constitution", I guess<g>. I am sorry if I lost patience with the other citations. We live in a country much freer and much more sensitive to civil liberties than it was even 50 years ago, so I find it hard to take seriously taking scraps of things one objects to in order to build a case that we are descending into fascism. This was not even a fascist country when segregation was widespread, or prior to Miranda, much less after........

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