“To provide and maintain a Navy”

Anything there about a two year limit, GG?

No, the POS in question is a soft noodled neo-marxist who was able to play at being a Constitutional lawyer.

And Quartermaster does have a point about the federal gov. It has grown into a behemoth in exactly the way the US Constitution was designed to keep it from growing.

I’m usually not at all in favor of new laws being made, we’ve got so many now that are unenforceable and/or ignored. But, a law that demands the forfeiture of life and property of any federal elected or appointed official, including SCOTUS that refuse to honor the Constitution as it is written and amended, rather than how they’d prefer it to read would be a welcome addition.

One amendment to the Constitution that I believe needs to be made is one that reworks the idea of a standing, professional army. We simply can not survive in this hostile world with the traditional use of ad-hoc forces raised up to meet specific emergencies. That was, more or less, our practice prior to the Cold War standoff with the USSR. We’ve long since abandoned the two year limit as a practice. I think it’s time the Constitution was updated to reflect that.

No,putz. The POTUS is ALWAYS the commander of the Army and Navy. The Army and Navy are permanent bodies, and are always under the command of the POTUS. He’s the commander of the militia only when it is called into the actual service of the United States.

And, this nimrod was a constitutional lawyer? No wonder this country is so screwed up.

Right out of Article 2. Greenwald needs to take a couple of aspirin and go lie down.

The FedGov has wildly overstepped its constitutional authority, and the overwhelming majority of the problem can be laid at the feet of Lincoln. We can complain about calling the POTUS CiC, but Lincoln laid the foundation and was the titular head of the first leftwing party. Hamilton laid that foundation, but his party didn’t succeed until 1865.

Alas, both McCain and Obama are within that mainstream. We may not like what’s happening now, but it ain’t gonna end until the American people wake up and actually read the constitution and work to enforce it. Chances of that happening are somewhere between slim and none.