"Leif Erikson" > wrote in message
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> Karen Winter flim-flammed and dissembled:
>
>> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> They decided to write a Constitution which listed those things which a
>>> central governing body would need to do for all of the country, and as
>>> they put it (paraphrased by me here) leave the remainder of activities
>>> to the individual states or the citizens of those states.
>>
>>
>> Glorfindel:
>
> No, Karen Winter. You are Karen Winter. Drop the charade, Karen.
>
>
>>
>> But it does not say that the citizens have to act only
>> at the state level. The citizens are also citizens of
>> the United States as a whole, and can act at a national
>> level in the persons of their congressional representatives.
>
> Congress may not pass laws that establish things not permitted to the
> federal government in the Constitution. It's that simple. Your error is
> that easy to establish.
Well Leif, I hope you will allow that Congress has done exactly that... and
thankfully things like that have been reversed (most of the time).
>
> You are not a constitutional scholar in any way, and it is obvious that
> you are pulling constitutional interpretations out your ass.