Mr. May wrote:
Some legal scholars are claiming that there is no provision in the Constitution guaranteeing anonymity of purchases, and, indeed, a growing number of purchases can no longer be anonymous--guns, explosives, chemicals of various sorts, etc. How long before _all_ transactions must be recorded, True Names revealed, etc.?
This is where I often get a little confused. Correct me if I am wrong, but it was my understanding that the constitutuion was _not_ a document that explicitly spelled out what writes _I_ had, but rather spelled out fairly precisely what the _government_ was allowed to do. In otherwords, the Constitution does not restrict _me_ rather it restricts the _feds_ (and the Feds alone). My rights are WHATEVER ISN'T IN THE CONSTITUTION, and the government can only, ONLY do what the constitution says it can. ???