That's O.K. I knew you got it from the source. As I said, I couldn't resist the opportunity to plug SI Navigator.
Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Paul Trusten, R.Ph. >Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 18:30 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:25954] RE: point #4 > > >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 >> >> >
