Article 1 Section 8 - Excellent video commentary

[JoshuaLyons]

Here is an excellent video on Article 1 Section 8. This is something that every citizen should watch and share!

Find the link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF-pRo_Z2ME

As Madison stated in Federalist No. 45:

• Powers delegated to the Federal government are few and defined
• Powers remaining in the State governments are numerous and indefinite

Too many in representatives (and citizens) do not understand the authority granted unto congress; this authority is defined in the Constitution with the 18 enumerated powers (Article 1 Section 8).

Really starting at the beginning of the 1900s legislators, presidents, bureaucrats, and justices have bastardized the meaning, intent, and interpretation of these powers and our founding documents in general. Until this is stopped and reversed, we will continue to put band-aids on mortal wounds.

Some of the major violations to the pure constitution are around 3 clauses:

1. General Welfare clause
2. Necessary and Proper clause
3. Commerce clause

[JoshuaLyons]

Here is an excellent video on Article 1 Section 8. This is something that every citizen should watch and share!

Find the link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF-pRo_Z2ME

As Madison stated in Federalist No. 45:

• Powers delegated to the Federal government are few and defined
• Powers remaining in the State governments are numerous and indefinite

Too many in representatives (and citizens) do not understand the authority granted unto congress; this authority is defined in the Constitution with the 18 enumerated powers (Article 1 Section 8).

Really starting at the beginning of the 1900s legislators, presidents, bureaucrats, and justices have bastardized the meaning, intent, and interpretation of these powers and our founding documents in general. Until this is stopped and reversed, we will continue to put band-aids on mortal wounds.

Some of the major violations to the pure constitution are around 3 clauses:

1. General Welfare clause
2. Necessary and Proper clause
3. Commerce clause

[sourcery]

1. General Welfare clause: Grants no power to the government; simply serves to set the interpretive context of the powers that are granted by the text that follows (ref: Veto of federal public works bill (James Madison)
2. Necessary and Proper clause: Grants the government the power to do whatever may be required in order to exercise the powers it is explicitly granted, provided no one's rights are violated thereby (e.g., this does not grant the government the power to kill for the purpose of "building post roads—one of the explicitly granted powers)
3. Commerce clause: Grants the governement the power to regularize the rules governing commercial transactions among parties in two or more States (reference: The Original Meaning of the Commerce Clause

[FromLori]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkThvjA4r_U&videos=LKhwi_sS7Fs&playnext_from=TL&playnext=1

What is it we are transforming into?

Glen Beck

[Man50D]

It’s amazing how so many people are so focused on provisions within HR3200 that they fail to realize the bill on it’s face is Unconstitutional as Since Article 1 Section 8 does not grant Congress the power to regulate health care!

[dalebert]

great...

[rlmorel]

Very good. Thank you for posting. This is the kind of information that is easy for people to get, they simply don’t. Videos like this help, so good job.

[rlmorel]

That is an excellent point.

As Ann Coulter is fond of pointing out, if you cede one little bit of lie or disinformation to a liberal, they will build an enormous edifice on the foundation of that lie.

So you are absolutely correct.

[dalebert]

i think a lady got flamed today for posting a radio show about someone trying to take the government to court over this....

[dalebert]

thanks for post

[Elsiejay]

According to Glen Beck, that’s about the time the Progressive Movement really got going, courtesy of Teddy Roosevelt, followed closely by W. Wilson. Some of their speeches are really scary, vis-s-vis the U. S. Constitution.

[swheats]

Would the next step for states that are in the red/bankrupt shut down and/or cut costs for a time rather than sign over any further rights to the federal government for a bailout?

[Trillian]

Bump