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From: glass@elaine50.stanford.edu (Brett Glass)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Privacy of personal data (was Re: Personal Privacy Violations)
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.232855.29325@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 28 Jan 91 23:28:55 GMT
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In article <6846@hsv3.UUCP> mvp@hsv3.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:

> It would be interesting to see how much of the
> federal government would remain if the Supreme Court suddenly started
> to take this ammendment seriously...
>-- 
>The powers not  delegated to the United States by the | Mike Van Pelt
>Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are | Headland Technology
>reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.| (was: Video Seven)
>U. S. Constitution, Ammendment 10.  (Bill of Rights)  | ..ames!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp

Simple. They'd just invoke the good ol' fantastic elastic clause.... Which
gives Congress the power to make any law they think proper. (When 
did you ever hear of any of those CongressCritters admitting that they
did something IMproper, except after they've been subpoenaed?)

<BG>


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