Re: Automatic fire sprinklers

["Stormin Mormon" <cayoung61**spamblock##@hotmail.com>]

Can you believe this?  I think Even actually thinks Congress
has, or ought to have the power to force us all to buy
safety stuff? Must be public school student.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
  www.lds.org
.


"Evan" <evan.news.reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jan 11, 10:26 am, "Stormin Mormon"
<cayoung61**spambloc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't remember reading in the Constitution. Where it
> gives
> any level of government power to force us to buy safety
> equipment.
>
> --
> Christopher A. Young
> Learn more about Jesus
> www.lds.org


Perhaps you do not know how to read the Constitution nor how
to
interpret what is written there and how the Supreme Court of
the
United States has interpreted and clarified the document in
the
ensuing 223 years since it was written by the founding
fathers
and architects of our country...

The fact that you can *buy* anything is at the discretion of
the US Congress which has the sole authority on the
regulation
of Commerce in the United States...

Article I, § 8:

-- "To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the
several states, and with the Indian tribes;"

(Commonly referred to as the "Commerce Clause")

-- "To make rules for the government and regulation of the
land
and naval forces;"

-- "To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for
carrying
into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers
vested by
this Constitution in the government of the United States, or
in any
department or officer thereof."

(Commonly referred to as the "Necessary and Proper Clause")

So it is written there, just not in the terms which you seem
to
need it to be so that you can clearly understand it I
guess...

Unless you are building a log cabin using only locally
available
materials (meaning you chopped down the logs yourself) you
are engaging in and benefiting from interstate commerce to
procure your supplies and materials which had to move across
state lines to arrive at the local store from which you
purchased
them...  THAT gives Congress the power to decide on how
those
materials should be sold and used...  Or to require any
safety
laws it feels are necessary...

It is my opinion that in the next few coming generations of
the National Building Code that automatic fire sprinklers
will
soon be a nationwide requirement...

~~ Evan