From: Jeremiah A Blatz <jer+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:00:25 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks-unedited@toad.com
Subject: Re: The Science Generations, II
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snow <snow@smoke.suba.com> writes:
> Mr. May wrote:
> > Some legal scholars are claiming that there is no provision in the
> > Constitution guaranteeing anonymity of purchases, and, indeed, a growing
> > number of purchases can no longer be anonymous--guns, explosives, chemicals
> > of various sorts, etc. How long before _all_ transactions must be recorded,
> > True Names revealed, etc.?
> 
>         This is where I often get a little confused.
> 
>         Correct me if I am wrong, but it was my understanding that the
> constitutuion was _not_ a document that explicitly spelled out what writes 
> _I_ had, but rather spelled out fairly precisely what the _government_ was 
> allowed to do.
> 
>         In otherwords, the Constitution does not restrict _me_ rather it 
> restricts the _feds_ (and the Feds alone).

You neglect things like the interstate commerce provision, which means
that if it crosses state lines, the feds can regualte it. In addition,
the court (in its infinite wisdom), decided that "the people" meant
the states, then the people. So, as long as it isn't meantioned in the
constitution, the states can do whatever they want.

Welcome to America, please stay in line.

Jer

"standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew
 why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole

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