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[Zaphod]

Fair enough. I would still contend that there are concerns only the federal government can be effective at addressing, and the necessary and proper clause provides the authority to do so. Just a respectful difference of opinion.

If you ask me, that's what the Constituion provides for....

... IF it's followed!

 

[pknguyen44]

Because the Air Force can't navigate for crap nor handle anything bigger than a small bomber, and because the Army isn't trained for expeditionary missions like the entire USMC is.

Besides, who wants to entrust the freedom and security of the entire planet to Woops and Zoomies?

So THERE.

lol gotta love it

 

[Zaphod]

The first spaceships would be AF, but the Navy would eventually take over.

We beat them to that, too. America's first astronaut was a USNA grad.

 

[js3486]

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/treasures_of_congress/Images/page_9/30a.html


This Andrew Jackson? What is he standing on there?

The Necessary and Proper clause .....a nice way of saying the "elastic clause".

I'm looking more at Amendment 10 of the U.S. Constitution: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The "general Welfare"....unless you earn a living of over $250,000 in your household, then you're SOL. Of course, because it's "We the People of the United States" means that "general Welfare" does not extend to illegal immigrants and undocumented workers, correct Bruno? Or are we just picking parts of the Consitution we like? That would beg the question as well, why would the protections of the Constitution extend to enemy combatants if they are not included in "We the People"?

Nicely Put LITS!

But we are now living in a time when the constitution is being looked at as living Document (shuddering to think about it) May God have mercy on us all. as for the line of succession:

# Office Current Officer
1 Vice President Joe Biden
2 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
3 President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd
4 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
5 Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner
6 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates[2]
7 Attorney General Eric Holder
8 Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
9 Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
10 Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke
11 Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis
12 Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
13 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan
14 Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood
15 Secretary of Energy Steven Chu
16 Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
17 Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki
18 Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano