That would come in handy against the zombies too! 

So... who's honest? 

Closed-No thread bumping

> Mister Spock wrote:

> The law should have been amended to deal with his actions and anything similar that might happen in the future.

Good men can choose what's best for the nation in extraordinary circumstances, so long as they're held accountable afterwards. Obviously nobody today thinks the Louisiana Purchase had negative results for the nation.

That was an extraordinary circumstance. The everyday ignoring of the law today is as ordinary as anything. Jefferson was acting under extraordinary circumstances. The legislature should have made it legal via a treaty or some such legality, or otherwise approved/rejected his executive decision. In the absence of Congress's authority making it clearly legal/illegal, we have the mess of illegality discussed here.

And there are far less "good men" in politics today than at this nation's founding. I think we need to err far more on the side of the law today than ever before, especially when there's no extraordinary circumstances at all.

No more questions.

*goes back to whatever he was doing*

Jefferson was never exactly the type that unabashedly adhered to the Constitution anyway.  Remember, during the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson initially asked Congress for a Constitutional Amendment to grant the power to buy land (no, there is no power to do that), but when Napolean informed him that the "massive tract of land for pennies on the dollar" deal was a limited time offer, he threw the Constitution out the window and bought the property anyway.  Not saying it was wrong by any means.  But Jefferson, one of our founding fathers, had no problem outright ignoring the Constitution when there was a choice between adherence to the Constitution and getting a strong national benefit.  Translation: If the US always strictly adhered to the US Constitution, The Yell would probably be a Spanish citizen.

I stopped at the first paragraph.  Worst way to begin a politics thread... ever!

So... there's no advantages... except for the advantages that are there. 

*writes it in the diary under his pillow*

> Einstein wrote:

> The communist of 1910 couldn't point to a single real-world instance of his utopia;

That.  Might not be a good example... but it's there.

Not to mention, the tea is 9 months old!

You're REALLY old!

Do you REALLY want tea that's been sitting out since April?  I mean... it's not wine.  It doesn't get better with age.