Sorry, Bill---I was only peeking at the Constitution. I first peeked at it on this issue in 1974.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 6:03 PM Subject: [USMA:25953] RE: point #4 > You must have been peeking at the Political Action section of SI Navigator > (http://metric1.org/action.htm). <g> > > Bill Potts, CMS > Roseville, CA > http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > > Couldn't resist the plug. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Paul Trusten, R.Ph. > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 15:12 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:25952] point #4 > > > 4.National. > > Article I, Section 8, of the United States Constitution provides, in part, > that the Congress "shall have power...To coin money, regulate the value > thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and > measures;..." > > As part of the same concept as that of coining money (a truly national > arrangement), the US Constitution empowers the US Congress to establish a > standard of measurement for the United States. That the US Congress has ever > fulfilled its responsibility under this article is debatable. But the > jurisdiction is clearly theirs, even though a few states, left to dangle > without the federal metric mandate promised but not delivered under the 1998 > US Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), have > nevertheless forged ahead to design highways using wholly metric standards > (some of thes states abandoned the effort because they were not part of a > national measurement change). Attempts at metrication in the US shall > never survive such a metrological Civil War, with non-metric states > bordering metric states. It must be a process as national as the > Constitution conceived it to be. > > Paul Trusten, R.Ph. > 3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122 > Midland TX 79707-2872 USA > 432-694-6208 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "There are two cardinal sins, from > which all the others spring: impatience > and laziness." > ---Franz Kafka > >
