-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <vpzpq8o2dw.fsf@sten.tivoli.com>, on 08/23/97 at 07:23 PM, Firebeard <stend+cypherpunks@sten.tivoli.com> said:
Mark M writes:
The U.S. Constitution explicitly states in Article I, Section 8, that the militia may be called forth (by the federal government) to enforce federal law. The army and other military forces, however, were not given this power
But they were not explicitly denied it, either.
Well there are two opposing camps on the Constitution. On one side you have the Libertarian view that the Constitution is a limiting document. The Federal government only has the power that is explicitly granted and no more. On the other side we have the view you have presented that unless explicitly denied the Federal Government can do anything it pleases. Anyone who has studied the writings of our Founding Fathers can clearly see that they intended for the Constitution to be a limiting document. The States had just finished fighting a long war against an oppressive, distant centralized government had had no intentions of creating another one in its place. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM/90nI9Co1n+aLhhAQFqPAP/dJLzpe2H5X7d1VEemxERLrduj+8/r8vd 5UUlNOTR2e3NxEzAPw5RY/L09HS5w5aKlrdhUNtyWtsDt+qzPs172NMXScXlw8BO BhEcZpT7XtyTs4yHnp9B7hISb3YdGADl4oL5xw/Ljw0Uq7ivKwF6iqBvAUnbMymn fZIFU0xMLSM= =dXM5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----