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Singapore, where the government owns most of the land and housing and a stake in most business is the American right's "capitalist ideal" Singapore, where the government owns most of the land and housing and a stake in most business is the American right's "capitalist ideal" The Heritage...

association fallacy that is not denmark

f by law you mean, according to the Blacks 9th definition, "the regime that orders human activities through systematic application of the force of politically organized society," the answer is a resounding no. However, the Supreme Court has used the Preamble as a tool for interpretive effect...

The Preamble contains no justiciable law; that is, no part of it establishes any legal grant or restriction that can be used to argue for or against the legality of any particular thing. That said, the Preamble is occasionally cited by courts in support of some contention or another. Perhaps...

lol you are so predicable all the more reason to scrap it and write a new one

Increasing Numbers of Americans Want Single Payer, But Is That What They Want? A Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation poll asked: “Do you support or oppose having a national health plan - or a single-payer plan - in which all Americans would get their insurance from a single government...

what about people who have no money, the purpose of government is to redistribute wealth

A general welfare clause is a section that appeared in many constitutions, as well as in some charters and statutes, which provides that the governing body empowered by the document may enact laws to promote the general welfare of the people, sometimes worded as the public welfare.

i'd burn it and write a new one, and i'd take down all those old statues of slave owners also. linco i'd leave up i admire lincoln he burned the south

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution...

big government is a good thing

it is everywhere else Abraham Lincoln > Quotes > Quotable Quote “The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.” ― Abraham Lincoln

but slavery was? who cares what the constitution said it is 200 years old written by slave owners?

After a couple of horrible mass shootings in Britain, handguns and automatic weapons have been effectively banned. It is possible to own shotguns, and rifles if you can demonstrate to the police that you have a good reason to own one, such as target shooting at a gun club, or deer stalking, say...