The Heaven’s Gate Option: Congressional Democrats Beg Biden to Make Them Constitutional Nonentities

As a side not to this thread, please consider the following.

Most of the federal debt is based on unconstitutional, unaccountable federal taxing and spending by the very corrupt, constitutionally undefined, feuding political parties who have pirated control of Congress imo.

"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.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had emphasized that the drafters of the Constitution had left the care of the people uniquely to the states, not the federal government.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Democrats Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)

In fact, given that one of the very few powers that the states have actually expressly constitutionally given to the peacetime federal government to dictate domestic policy is to run the US Mail Service, the key question that all Constitution-savvy voters need to ask themselves regarding the debt is the following.

How many corrupt political parties and unconstitutional, unaccountable trillion dollar omnibus bills does it take to run the US Mali Service?

I say none, no political parties or massive omnibus spending bills needed to deliver the mail.

"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"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.

Note that the states can put a "permanent" stop to unconstitutional federal taxes when ALL the states effectively "secede" from the unconstitutionally big federal government by repealing the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A).

So the ultimate remedy for the unconstitutional debt is for Trump-supporting Democratic and Republican patriots to support their state lawmakers in repealing 16&17A imo.

If the repeal amendment was strictly limited to repealing those amendments, then relatively or ideally no discussion would be needed before ratification imo.

In fact, I challenge the states to "ram" the repeal amendment through the amendment process faster than Pelosi irresponsibly rammed the unconstitutional (imo) Obamacare bill through the House.

”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.
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)

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