Thursday, December 18, 2008:
One of the misguided ideas of the multitude presently afoot in the US is that whatever is permitted constitutionally is good for the federal government to pursue. The interstate commerce clause has been interpreted as permitting the Congress wide latitude in its various plenitude of diarrhea of laws. However, simply the fact that a law is not forbidden constitutionally does not mean that the law is in congruence with the interests of the nation. And as it harms the nation, so it ultimately harms the Constitution that is dependent for its existence on the nation; the People, acting in their political capacity.
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