[MD] The MoQ and Politics?

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[mary]
> there is one area the Constitution and Bill of
 > Rights does not address. One area of law we
 > were left to grapple with on our own. That area > is commerce and capitalism.

Actually, the U. S. Constitution says quite a bit about commerce.
For instance, states were not allowed to interfere with interstate
commerce, a view which it took 2 centuries for Europe to arrive at.
Also there were provisions for copyrights & patents to protect the
livelihood of authors, artists & inventors.
Of course, the worst fault of the Constitution was allowing slavery
& the slave trade. This problem preceded the Constitution by 100 yrs.
and wouldn't be solved for another "four score and seven years".
I suppose we could blame the Founding Fathers for not making
credit default swaps unconstitutional, but I think we should look
closer to home.
Craig