John Adams also promoted and signed into law the Alien and Sedition Acts. This allowed Adams to imprison anyone who criticized him. When Jefferson became president, he pardoned and released everyone convicted under this law (although the scumbag didn't release all the people he imprisoned as his slaves).
I would hardly hold the actions of John Adams to be precedent-setting with regards to the constitution.
"Should a hospital let someone bleeding to death die in their Emergency Room if they have no insurance?"
This is the most ridiculous argument put forth in favor of this corporatist monstrosity. Would you, if you had the means to help someone, let them die at your feet because that person did not have the money to pay you for your help? How many people do you know who would do that?
If the goals listed in the preamble were to be fulfilled by any means that any person considered appropriate, then why didn't the founders just stop there? Why did they continue on for seven more articles containing the particulars about what the federal government is permitted to do? Do you think they just didn't have anything better to do with their time?
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John Adams also promoted and signed into law the Alien and Sedition Acts. This allowed Adams to imprison anyone who criticized him. When Jefferson became president, he pardoned and released everyone convicted under this law (although the scumbag didn't release all the people he imprisoned as his slaves). I would hardly hold the actions of John Adams to be precedent-setting with regards to the constitution.
"Should a hospital let someone bleeding to death die in their Emergency Room if they have no insurance?" This is the most ridiculous argument put forth in favor of this corporatist monstrosity. Would you, if you had the means to help someone, let them die at your feet because that person did not have the money to pay you for your help? How many people do you know who would do that?
If the goals listed in the preamble were to be fulfilled by any means that any person considered appropriate, then why didn't the founders just stop there? Why did they continue on for seven more articles containing the particulars about what the federal government is permitted to do? Do you think they just didn't have anything better to do with their time?