On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Colin Burnett <<a href="mailto:cmlburnett@gmail.com">cmlburnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I suggest, to whomever in general, reading Restoring the Lost<br>
Constitution by Randy Barnett:<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoring_the_Lost_Constitution" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoring_the_Lost_Constitution</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br>Either the constitution allows this spying crap and the other usurpations, or it has been powerless to stop them. In either case, I must question its usefulness; the Soviet Union "guaranteed" free speech in their constitution, too [1]. And that worked out famously. Paper tigers.<br>
<br>[1]: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Union">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Union</a><br><br>- Nathan<br><br>