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Consitutional Plunder

Florentina writes:

Good Evening!!!!!

I just wanna ask if plunder is constitutional or not? Hope that you could help.

Dear Florentina,

When you think about it, isn't the U.S. Constitution really just a charter that institutionalizes plunder?

Seriously, compare the Constitution with the Articles of Confederation, and pay special notice to the compulsory obligations to the states which were not present in the Articles.

As far as private, non-governmental plunder, I would say it is "non-constitutional," rather than unconstitutional. By which I mean that the Constitution guarantees non-interference with private contracts, and lists very few federal crimes, so plunder is simply not covered. Anything which goes against a particular provision is unconstitutional, but things which are not covered don't apply.

People often talk about "Constitutional rights," and so forth. Hogwash. Read the Constitution, and see if you can find one place in the entire document where the "People" are granted a single right.

The Constitution is a rulebook for government. It gives government certain powers, and places on it certain limitations. Even the Bill of Rights doesn't really grant rights to the People. Instead it limits government so that it will not infringe rights which the People are recognized to already have.

It may seem like semantics, but it is an important distinction. A constitution which grants rights can be amended to take those rights away. If we recognize that our natural rights supercede government powers, then we are perhaps less likely to abandon them due to fraud and deceit.


(Isaiah 33:22) For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.

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