My claim was not erroneous, it is an established fact that the Constitution is a document granting certain specific powers to the federal government. Again, you have used the fact that the federal government acts outside these powers as an argument that they should continue to do so.
Your claim is neither supported by law nor the courts. It's how you claim the government is supposed to be bound, which it never has been. Just because you want it to work that way doesn't make it so.
My theory of government is following the Constitution. Why don't you move to another country, there are plenty that seem to have views more in line with your own.
And again, your theory is erroneous. You have nothing with which to support it, you're focusing on a few specific lines out of context and ignoring the rest of the document thoroughly outlined in papers and legal rulings. So yes, this is how our world works and I'm grateful your minority opinion isn't creating the power vacuum easily predicted.
Sure, they'll have lots of barriers, like losing customers or supporters. Can't make a profit or a sermon if no one is buying your stuff.
Because captive markets are so good at finding competition.
My theory is not "erroneous", and it is very much supported by those whose wrote the Constitution. The federal government has simply chosen to rely on the judicial branch to "interpret" its way into more or less unlimited power. Again, your entire premise is an appeal to an authority that has ignored its charter and deigned to give itself whatever authority it sees fit. And again, this is why we have laws such as the Freedom Act.
So yes, this is how our world works and I'm grateful your minority opinion isn't creating the power vacuum easily predicted.
Sadly, you are right, that is how the world works, which is why hundreds of Americans are killed every year enforcing the War on Drugs, why hundreds of thousands of Americans are imprisoned for the same, why millions of people have been killed or maimed in our overseas conflicts, why banks are allowed to commit fraud and then be bailed out by the people they defrauded, why government agencies can spy without restraint on every American citizen, why American citizens can be assassinated without due process. You might find this concentration of unlimited power appealing, but I don't, and I will fight it.
Because captive markets are so good at finding competition.
A free market would discourage a captive market, unless that captive market was already efficiently servicing the market.
Your claim is neither supported by law nor the courts. It's how you claim the government is supposed to be bound, which it never has been. Just because you want it to work that way doesn't make it so.
And again, your theory is erroneous. You have nothing with which to support it, you're focusing on a few specific lines out of context and ignoring the rest of the document thoroughly outlined in papers and legal rulings. So yes, this is how our world works and I'm grateful your minority opinion isn't creating the power vacuum easily predicted.
Because captive markets are so good at finding competition.
My theory is not "erroneous", and it is very much supported by those whose wrote the Constitution. The federal government has simply chosen to rely on the judicial branch to "interpret" its way into more or less unlimited power. Again, your entire premise is an appeal to an authority that has ignored its charter and deigned to give itself whatever authority it sees fit. And again, this is why we have laws such as the Freedom Act.
Sadly, you are right, that is how the world works, which is why hundreds of Americans are killed every year enforcing the War on Drugs, why hundreds of thousands of Americans are imprisoned for the same, why millions of people have been killed or maimed in our overseas conflicts, why banks are allowed to commit fraud and then be bailed out by the people they defrauded, why government agencies can spy without restraint on every American citizen, why American citizens can be assassinated without due process. You might find this concentration of unlimited power appealing, but I don't, and I will fight it.
A free market would discourage a captive market, unless that captive market was already efficiently servicing the market.