First, thank you for your service to the country Alas Babylon!.
Next, with all due respect, and without looking, can you tell me why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I? Note that these days the only people that I wouldn’t challenge about Seciton 8 are Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Judge Andrew Napolitano.
From related threads …
Noting that I gladly voted for Pres. Trump and do not regret doing so, please consider the following regarding Section 8.
The reason that I question Trump’s knowledge of Congress’s Section 8-limited powers (There! I answered the question about Section 8 for you.) is because, regardless of Trump’s good intentions for the country, the states have arguably never given Congress the express Section 8 authority which Trump requires in order to fulfill some of his campaign promises.
Regardless that Trump wants to repeal and replace Obamacare for example, it remains that the states have never expressly constitutitonally delegated to the corrupt feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes.
This is evidenced by the following excerpts from the writings of Thomas Jefferson and previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices.
"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons [emphasis added], our property, our reputation and religious freedom.” —Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”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.
The excerpts above indicate that lawless Obama’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wrongly ignored not only Congress’s Section 8-limited powers, but also clarifications of those limited powers by previous generations of state sovererignty-respecting Supreme Court justices, when Obama’s puppet justices declared Obamacare to be constitutional.
In other words, in order to implement Trumpcare, Trump needs to either work with corrupt Congress to get all healthcare-related regulations that the feds cannot justify under the Gibbons interpretation of the Commerce Clause (1.8.3) above out of the books, such regulations arguably helping to raise the cost of healthcare …
Or if Trumpcare needs new constitutional powers, then Trump needs to work with the Congress and the states to ratify a Trumpcare amendment to the Constituton.
But we’ve heard little if anything about Congress’s Section 8-limited powers from Pres. Trump.
And patriots are warned that if they do not get Trump up to speed with the fed’s constitutionally limited powers, and support Trump in peacefully “forcing” the feds to surrender state powers that the feds have stolen from the states back to the states, then it’s only a matter of time before another lawless POTUS works in cahoots with corrupt Congress to use stolen state powers to once again oppress the states and their citizens.
Well, I think that’s VERY unfair to ask ME about Article 1 Section 8 without looking.
I can memorize anything, but I did not memorize the Constitution, as I carry it with me (I swore an oath—I still live by—to protect it against all enemies, foreign and domestic).
Having said that I’ll take a peek at the words and comment on them.
OK, having peeked, I believe these are the about the powers the Congress of the United States has—not the judiciary or the executive branches, to wit the Courts and the President.
Your point probably involves how those powers are not the powers of the President, but how the whole Congress, either and somehow, over the years, let the president and the judiciary take them or seceded them along.
And I do see your point, but I do not think Trump is illiterate or stupid as some people think, but good God, man! He can read, just like me!
It is LAWYERS who have made a travesty of the plain words of the Constitution. 200 years of slippery, slimey, byzantine-complex, lawyerly, Jesuit-level thinking has convoluted these plain words awfully.
In a world where umbras and woulda/coulda/shouldas actually rule, we’re a mess. YET-—We have now elected someone who could do something, yet he’s attacked by all sides.
I don’t have an answer, but Trump isn’t an ignorant oaf. And there yet remains thousands of famous and so-called minds, even Harvard Law Review editors-in-chiefs for goodness sakes, who look at the words of the Constitution, maybe even know them by heart, but understand them less than Trump.
We call those people democrats.