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The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Umm 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: o/t, debtors and creditors,
Date: 07/09/24 3:50 PM
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"No, it wouldn't. That's why I said "Ha!"

It would be a previously invisible & unknown part of the Constitution, found in the shadows of a penumbra. Like Wickard v. Filburn "Congress can regulate any activity that has a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce."
Or the previously unknown rights of abortion and gay marriage. It was there all along, it's just that nobody noticed it.

A D- average first year law student could do it in his sleep.

Anybody who reads history knows how it all eventually ends."


I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the Constitution was written and intended to work by the founders.
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This community has written 21,448 posts about Berkshire Hathaway. The article-length ones it recommended most:
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