Recent content by macrovol

Knoxville is number 1. I can give some credence to those who rank Nashville ahead of Knoxville, but not much.

Depends on where they are regulating. They have the authority to regulate on state property. Not anywhere else.

All I'm doing is quoting the Constitution.

Article II Section 1. The powers of the government shall be divided into three distinct departments: legislative, executive, and judicial. Section 2. No person or persons belonging to one of these departments shall exercise any of the powers properly belonging to either of the others, except...

It would be if the Department of Corrections tried to make law.

Bingo.

There are already a number of people who the Red Cross will have to respond to with heat stroke at every early September game. Masks will just make that number go up.

Perfect example. The commerce clause has nothing to do with the interstate highway system. Article 1 Section 8 gives Congress the authority to build post roads. The idea that the authority to manage elections somehow gives the authority to delegate responsibility to the executive is just wishful...

Article 7, Sec 4 does no such thing, and the rest of your argument hinges on that. You seem to be a practicing attorney. If so, I'm not surprised you read into something that simply isn't there. It's your nature.

All of it. The legislature can only do what it is authorized to do. It doesn't have the authority to do anything it wants just because the constitution doesn't prohibit it.

I already said, there is no constitutional authorization for the statute.

Bernard King wasn't rated #1, but he was clearly the best player of the class.

"Section 4. The election of officers, and the filling of all vacancies not other- wise directed or provided by this Constitution, shall be made in such manner as the Legislature shall direct." Nice try, but no.

And I'll ask you to think a bit. Where does the TN Constitution authorize the legislature to delegate its authority? Please cite the actual Constitution, not some court case that derived it out of thin air.

What you are saying is true, but it is a fact that alcoholism and domestic assault have increased during the lock down.