Tanking the Thighs

So, I’m sitting here in my dorm room reading the Denver Post and watching The Office, and enjoying myself. I have been reading the letters to the editor and remembering the one time my classmates and I wrote a letter to the editor in response to another person’s letter. It was in my AP Government class and our teacher brought in the editorial section of our local newspaper and read aloud a letter to the editor.
The letter was by an unsatisfied citizen saying that in no clause in the constitution does it give congress the power to make any laws they want, especially about the laws affecting us in Oregon. However, since we were all in AP Government and we had learned the constitution very well and knew that it was under the “Necessary and Proper” clause which allows congress to make all laws necessary and proper to protect the good of the welfare and the safety of the union.
What our class did in return is composed a letter, together, in return to the editor, addressing the author of the letter and in a formal style, somewhat made a fool of him for saying that, “no where in the constitution does it say that congress can form laws about whatever they want”. Every day in class we read the newspaper to see if our letter was printed and in fact, two or three weeks later our letter was printed in the newspaper. Unluckily, it was about two weeks before school ended so we could not see if the man responded to our letter, and I forgot to look in the papers, but it was really fun to write a letter in response to another letter to the editor.