From: Randall Parker 

In , the sagacious richhong{at}hawksci.com
Richard Hong perspicated:
> The problem is simple: just because the Constitution mandates only the one
> question, it does not mean that Congress cannot authorize the asking of
> additional questions.  Just because the Constitution doesn't mandate the
> additional questions doesn't mean that the additional questions are
> unconstitutional.

Well, then what _is_ unconstitutional? The government seems to be able to
say that this or that has some value so lets do it and where are the brakes
on its activities?

> I don't see how asking the additional questions violates my Constitutional
> rights, given the nature of the questions.

Well, where did we give the US gov't the right to do such things in the first place?

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