…..because I am rather fond of it, particularly the parts about free speech and gun totin’, not to mention my absolute favorite section on the limits of Federal Government powers. Enumerated, I think is how it is usually put. Specifically absent from these enumerated powers is the ability to “coerce” whom must purchase health insurance, “control” insurance pricing, and “centralize” rate making authority, for to do so would create an economic activity by “government fiat.” (Now, no doubt apologists—of whom I emphatically do not suggest you are one— for greater government control, coercion, centralization and fiat can come up with gentler terms for them, I’m quite sure the Politburo did. But that doesn’t change what they are and the fact that they are outside of the enumerated powers granted to the Feds by the Constitution).
BTW, I’m not completely enthralled with the document. The 16th, 17th and 18th amendments really don’t float my boat.
PK
