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From: tac@teldata.UUCP (Tom Condon)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.jokes
Subject: Re: give-aways
Message-ID: <294@teldata.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Apr-84 18:15:50 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  5 18:15:50 1984
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, (sop to the blank line eaters--consider it a religious sacrifice)

NO, NO, NO!!!!!!! 

Imprimus, that is the preamble, not the Constitution itself.

Secundus, the *EXACT* quote is:
	    "...provide for the common defence,
		promote the general welfare..."

This section of the preamble (while carrying NO weight of law) has been
used to foist upon us the "general welfare" by a supreme court decision
some years back which has sucked many a taxpayer dry.  There is nothing
in the Constitution which grants the power to the government to take money
from one person and give it to another.  It is one of the powers which
WE, THE PEOPLE have given away through the negligence of not denying to
our government a power which they do not have!  

Lord deliver us from Philistines who misquote our sacred documents with
the purport of giving us truth!


	    From the Soapbox of
	    Tom Condon     {...!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac}

	    A Radical A Day Keeps The Government At Bay.