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Depends on whether or not "abiding by the Constitution" means including what anyone who had anything at all to do with the Constitution and everything each one of them wrote is to be included. If so, then it would be next to impossible to come up with a definitive statement of what the...

Not unlike the tactic you follow.

Actually it's been a subject of discussion almost since the document was ratified. Hence all the amendments and the volumes of Supreme Court decisions.

If you believe that abiding by the Constitution means to follow it and that's all there is to it, then good luck to you.

Pleased to have lightened your day.

Because it has yet to be defined. Anyone of intelligence will not support what has not been defined.

That's your interpretation. One could also argue that the first sentence is equivalent to all the rest and they are not subsumed to it.

That's just a tautology. If those who urge "abiding" by it or "following" it can't agree on what it says, how is one to abide by it?

Those enumerated powers including "provid[ing] for the . . . general Welfare . . .." Whether it is limited to defense and highways and so forth is a matter of interpretation.

And what exactly does "promoting civil [sic] responsibility" mean? Ditto "abiding by the Constitution"? There seems to be considerable disagreement over these nowadays, particularly with regard to the Constitution.

I'm sure I'm not the only inquiring person who wants to know.

And it says this where?

Or, as you suggested, define them. They are so amorphous -- with the possible exceptions of 2 and 3 -- that agreeing with them requires a certain degree of brain death.

Depends on how it's constructed and funded. Sucking up to the insurance companies and the drug companies was a non-starter. That was clear to just about everybody except those who were responsible for implementing the ACA. Poor Teddy must be turning in his grave.

Like I said, go to single-payer like we should have done in the first place.

Then perhaps we can ditch the whole thing and go to single-payer like we should have done in the first place.

I think we would be totally in the right to do it...Ignoring as a nation that things are worthy of death is very remiss. -- Oklahoma state congressional Tea Party candidate Scott Esk, on stoning-to-death for homosexuals

Prevailing neoliberal ideology, which perverts capitalism as an economic system into capitalism as an unyielding political ideology, lurks in the shadows of almost every major issue in America, though nowhere is its influence more obvious or profound than in the spiraling rise of income and...

Didn't you know? Water condenses and collects in heat and evaporates in cold. That's why Lake Mead is so low. :)

I for one am so grateful that this CO2 blanket cools the earth: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/19/lake-mead-drops-lowest-levels-ever_n_5601332.html