This weeks blog is a response to a question that came up over at Blargen Blog. I made a comment to the effect that silver is truly the only Constitutional form of money. In order to keep this blog somewhat short, I ask that the readers to allow some assumptions: 1) strictly speaking, I believe, if the Constitution doesn’t authorize a power, then our government cannot do it. 2) The Constitution through articles and amendments trump statutes – in other words even if Congress passes a law, if the Constitution does not authorize it, it cannot be done. I’ll go into more detail on these later.

 After finally sitting down to write the blog post below, I get an e-mail stating that this blog has been named as one of The Top 100 Civil Liberties Advocacy Blogs. The list is comprised of several different subjects dealing with civil liberties and Brad’s Weekly Constitutional Blog is the first one under the category Constitutional Issues and Supreme Court.

 The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay should have access to the American civil court system and have guaranteed civil liberties under the U. S. Constitution. While in Rome, President Bush responded to the ruling stating “We’ll abide by the court’s decision, that doesn’t mean I have to agree with it.” Also citing national security needs, President Bush suggested that more legislation may be needed to close this security gap.