Thanks for replying.
The Constitution’s Article I, Section 8 is a list of Congress’s limited powers, delegated to Congress by the states. Let’s say it’s a little over a page long.
In fact, if you have three minutes, Judge Napolitano will read Section 8 for you.
Judge Andrew Napolitano
Note that Section 8 shows that one of the few powers to decide domestic policy that the states have actually given to Congress is to run the US Mail Service (1.8.7).
In other words, whenever you hear of a federal domestic spending program that is not related to the mail service, then you can bet that the program is unconstitutional, based on stolen state powers, and be right most of the time imo.
A previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court Justices had this to say concerning Congress’s Section 8-limited powers.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Im guessing the last few SCs didnt agree with that interpretation...
No, these powers are delegated by The People. Read the Preamble:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
We all need to recognize that it is the people who can establish government, not government.
Trump gets it. He pointed out this phrase "We the People" to the thugs and tyrants assembled at the UN just yesterday.