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From: black@pundit.DEC (DON BLACK DTN 261-2739 MS: NIO/N13 LOC: POLE C6)
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Subject: Keeping government in its place
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Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 13:02:09 EDT
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>Mike Sykora, can I take your silence on the subject of financing
>national defense a la Koenig's suggestion, as a sign that you agree
>with me?  I agree with you that "limiting the scope of democratic
>control" makes sense -- if it is done as follows.  I think that some
>things (e.g. the things prohibited by the 1st amendment) should be 
>outside the power of the legislature (Congress), but that the
>Constitution itself should be open to change by democratic procedures
>(requiring more than a simple majority) -- much as it is now.
>
>Now, you haven't answered my question:  HOW do YOU propose that
>government should be "limited" to "its proper role"?  By a non-
>amendable constitution, or what?


     I gotta great revolutionary idea about "limiting government to its
proper role."  It's so simple it almost hurts.

     Instead of coming up with a brand new, non-amendable constitution,
why not just strictly enforce the one we have, as our Founding Fathers
intended it to be?

--Don Black

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