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Section 8, Clause 8: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their r
by handojin 9y ago
Section 8, Clause 8:
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Not much latitude there.
- naasking 9y agoThe latitude to decide what actually promotes the progress of science and the useful arts seems pretty broad to me.
- handojin 9y agoI think you've misunderstood. Do you think the federal government is actually competent to decide which inventions will actually promote the progress of science and the useful arts?
- dnautics 9y agoThe issuing of patents is contingent on Congress's belief that doing so promotes science and the useful arts. If hypothetically Congress did not believe that any longer, they would be free to stop the activities of the patents and copyrights offices.
- handojin 9y agoIn practice I don't expect Congress will cease to borrow money on the credit of the United States, though I suppose in theory they could.
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- nqzero 9y agoyou could have taught george washington a few things about picking cherries