"Wayne Harrison" wrote in message
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it is no exaggeration to say that the enactment of such legislation
would be the end of our system of government, as we have known it for the
last two hundred years. the supreme court would rule that the legislation
was unconstitutional, and if no one blinks, we have u.s. marshalls putting
the supreme court under arrest, for some damn something. contempt of
congress?


You are more than likely more versed in constitutional law than some bean
counter in the eastern mid-west but didn't Andrew Jackson openly disregard a
Supreme Court opinion? The point being I guess that something like this has
already happened once and we survived it. Like the bibical story that the
poor will always be with us, the crackpots on both ends of the political
spectrum will continue to offer up things which push the envelope,
eventually the envelope pushes back.