Message to Politicians: It's The Constitution, Stupid!
It is crystal clear, from the writings of the founders and from the constitution itself, that the Federal Government is to be a limited government with specifically enumerated powers. Those powers not mentioned in the constitution are retained by the states and the people.
I tuned into the Rush Limbaugh Show last Thursday as I was running around getting some errands done. Walter E Williams, Economist of the People, was filling in, and as usual, he was on fire! Here is the gist of his argument:
Article 1, Section 8 lists the specific powers delegated to Congress by the people. Unfortunately, Congress has stretched the General Welfare clause so out of shape, general welfare now means whatever they want it to, to include picking your pocket for the welfare of those who choose not to work, or the electoral welfare of pork laden politicians.
Jefferson predicted this over 200 years ago
"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated."
He also said this:
"They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare.... [G]iving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless."
It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please."
An indefinite, unlimited government...
"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions." -- James Madison, "Letter to Edmund Pendleton,"
"[T]he powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction." -- James Madison, Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention [June 6, 1788]
Federal Government's Powers are Limited and Enumerated
When some lib ignoramus accuses you of cherry picking quotes, drop these bombs on them:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. --9th Amendment to the US Constitution
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. -- 10th Amendment to the US Constitution
Frederic Bastiat also had something to say about our venal, constitutionally ignorant politicians and their dirty intertwinings with businesses and special interests:
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." -- French economist, statesman and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
Our arrogant politicians think they know better than the men who wrote our constitution and formed our government. It's time to wrench their dirty, stinking hands off of the levers of power. They have led us to the brink of financial bankruptcy, but this was preceded by a moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
Register to vote. Get ten like-minded family, friends and co-workers to do the same. Then help them get to the voting booth. The ballot is the last non-violent means we have to restore sanity to our great nation. I have faith in God that we can do it.
For a quick guide to getting yourself up to speed on the constitution, see US Constitution Made Easy!
Senator Orrin Hatch has written a straightforward article explaining why the proposed health care legislation is unconstitutional. Read it Here.
6 comments:
I agree whole heartedly that EVERYONE gets the message on voting.
As to the Constitution, well they all (politicians) know they are subverting it. They have been doing it for years just not at super-sonic speed and so blatently as now.
If people truly want "to be the government" once again as is proscribed then it is IMPERATIVE they find, run and vote for CONSERVATIVE IDEALOGUES. Not career,wishy-washy, mealy-mouthed policos who are willing participants in ANY liberal/socialist agenda PERIOD!.
listening to Rush right now!..good one my friend!:)
Oh, to go back in time and rephrase the Commerce Clause!
Excellent post my friend. And I have done my best to persuade many of my friends to get off their keisters and vote. It's time to stand up for our freedom and get our nation and government back under the people's control.
Constiwhat?
Just kidding, Amen brother, you hit the nail on the head with that one.
And Innonimatus is partially correct, but it's not the writing of the commerce clause that is flawed, it is the interpretation of it... Wickard v. Filburn is one of the worst supreme court decisions ever.
When the court ruled, reversing 150 years of precedent, that the commerce clause applied to a farmer growing wheat on his own farm for his own consumption was regulated by the commerce clause.
Applying " To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes;" to produce grown on a farm for a farm with no intention of sale is one of the premier examples of government mental gymnastics...oooh, so flexible.
I don't think you can word it any plainer than it is, it's the twisted big-government statist mind that produces the oppressive results.
Finntann
If our elected officials refuse to adhere to the Constitution of the United States, to which they pledge their oath of office, then perhaps WE THE PEOPLE need to persuade them at the point of a gun.
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