The Constitution and the Magna Carta

[unixronin]

cipherpunk discusses the differences between the two, and how the government has turned a short and strictly enumerated list of only seventeen things it is allowed by the Constitution to do, all other things being forbidden to it, into "We can do whatever we want".

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[randwolf.livejournal.com]

As a very late thought on this: it occurs to me it is the banks and financial firms, with the connivance of the government, that have "taken it all away" for many people. Strikingly, "minimal government" arguments were used to justify this.

The regulation of commerce is one of the oldest functions of government. It seems that abandoning it, or corrupting it, is one way the government can take it all away.