"Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be just as the framers intended: few and explicitly enumerated in our founding document and its amendments. Search the Constitution as long as you like, and you will find no specific authority conveyed for the government to spend money on global-warming research, urban mass transit, food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, or countless other items in the stimulus package and, even without it, in the regular federal budget." --Independent Institute senior fellow Dr. Robert Higgs

1. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

2. To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

3. To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

Clause 1 allows laws for the general welfare

Clause 3 allows regulation of anything that crosses state lines or is imported

not saying I agree with that interpretation, but ...

Yeup...all because some deadbeat bidder didn't want to pay, I had to re-list this once proud and honorable document. Forged by the sweat, mind and souls of our Founding Fathers it stands as a living breathing document to all that live within her borders.

This is a No Reserve auction starting at $1.00 US.