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Uh, no. They get it better than you do, actually. The government works for the people, or at least, that's the way it was supposed to be. If you have the cash for it, you should be able to buy it. The government has no Constitutional right to do this, so their actions are ILLEGAL. Hopefully that word will have more of an effect on you than "unconstitutional."
Q' I highly doubt you have any idea of what I get and don't get.
As for it being illegal it isn't. It can also be debated that it is Constitutional. If it wasn't it wouldn't be law. If you actually look at everything that goes to court it is based on precedent or Constitutional law. Depending upon who the judge is and what their political leanings are the decision is made if it is Constitutional or not. So the Constitution is not black or white. Just because your interpretation of what those words mean is one way doesn't mean there is not another meaning for it. The world is not black and white. It is many shades of gray. So please lets drop the Constitutional stuff. It's not a winnable argument. It's a matter if who has the most valued opinion. Look at the Supreme Court. When it votes for something that the left likes. The right claims activist judges. When it votes for something the right wants it's activist judges.
You sound pretty smart. Just young and inexperienced. You should go in to law. It will give you a taste of what grey is all about.
"[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights." --Thomas Jefferson
"I consider the foundation of the [Federal] Constitution as laid on this ground: That "all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people." [10th Amendment] To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition." --Thomas Jefferson
"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government." --James Madison
The Constitution IS black-and-white. It's not MY interpretation, it's Thomas Jefferson's and James Madison's. Something tells me they have a better idea of what was meant than our lying Supreme Court justices do. Yes, I just insulted the mighty black-robed arbiters of right and wrong. They're human, and they're corrupt, and they're Constitutionally clueless. I'll stick with the Founders rather than the fox that guards the chicken coop.
Checks and balances my foot.
ETA: Your claim that it wouldn't be law if it were unconstitutional has to be one of the most naive things I've ever heard.
