The Fraudulent Commerce Clause
At some point in every freedom-loving law student’s academic career comes a two-week period of outrage and bewilderment coinciding with lectures on the interstate commerce clause.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the constitution reads as follows:
“The Congress shall have Power …To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.“
During the drafting of the constitution, the founders were worried that the various States would implement tariffs and trade embargoes against one another. To prevent interstate trade warring, they vested the power to regulate such commerce to the federal government. If the founders had realized how dangerous and perverted the words “regulate commerce” would become after 1936, they certainly would not have penned it.
Not So Fast, Monopolistic Legal System
Here’s a good law review article on the “missing,” aka. “not ratified” thirteenth amendment. The proposed thirteenth amendment would have read:
“If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.”
This may have been intended to prevent people holding titles of “esquire” from being citizens, thereby disenfranchising dastardly lawyers. If this were the intent, even in part, they probably had the right idea.
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Virginia Bar Review: Private Postings
I have decided to make my review of the VA bar private, please register if you want to view the postings.
ALERT: Gunfire on Clemson University Campus
Breaking news . . . shots heard on Clemson campus.
| —–Original Message—– From: NEWS SERVICES LIST: ALL STUDENTS [mailto:NEWS_STUDENTS-L@CLEMSON.EDU] On Behalf Of Inside Clemson Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 10:03 AM To: NEWS_STUDENTS-L@CLEMSON.EDU Subject: ALERT: REPORT OF GUN SHOT AT MARTIN HALL UNDER INVESTIGATION REPORT OF GUN SHOT AT MARTIN HALL UNDER INVESTIGATION Clemson University police have received reports of a gunshot in the vicinity of Martin Hall. An investigation is under way. So far, police have found no evidence of a gun being fired. If you have any information, contact at CUPD 656-2222 or on campus 911. More information will be disseminated as it becomes available. ===================== Issued by the Clemson University Department of News Services. If you have questions about e-mail content, contact the information source named in the e-mail above. |
UPDATE: Clemson University police keep students in the loop on the gunshot investigation:
| —–Original Message—– From: NEWS SERVICES LIST: ALL STUDENTS [mailto:NEWS_STUDENTS-L@CLEMSON.EDU] On Behalf Of Inside Clemson Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 10:24 AM To: NEWS_STUDENTS-L@CLEMSON.EDU Subject: CUPD INVESTIGATION UPDATE: NO GUNSHOT NO GUNSHOT; UTILITY CART BACKFIRE Clemson University police, investigating reports of a gunshot near Martin Hall this morning, have determined the sound actually was caused by a utility cart backfire. After interviewing witnesses, Police Chief Johnson Link and Facilities Director Bob Wells have confirmed a utility cart backfired in the area, causing the reported incident. ====================== Issued by the Clemson University Department of News Services. |
Luckily the Clemson police were able to swiftly resolve this issue so that they could turn their attention to another harrowing incident that occurred. Shortly afterward, Clemson University fell victim to an empty suitcase nuke.
Hillary for Czar
I had so much fun lampooning Mitt Romney with the USSR flag that I couldn’t help but modify Hillary Clinton’s campaign stickers. Link to original.