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Originally Posted by Glitch
That very well may be true, but that does not make it constitutional. Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution, and some of the subsequent ratified amendments, is the scope of Congress' power. The power to fund exploration of any kind resides with the States and/or the people according to the Tenth Amendment.
The framers did not always abide by the document they created. The Alien & Sedition Act of 1796, for example, was enacted into law a mere six years after the First Amendment was ratified.
If this country had been less foresighted and always gone "by the book", y'all would probably be a Canuck now... or speaking Russian!
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