Posted on 02/07/2009 10:01:39 PM PST by EternalVigilance
I'm pleased to see the growing movement in State legislatures around the country to remind Americans of the existence and import of the 10th amendment to the Constitution. It reads simply "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." These words first of all firmly and unequivocally establish that the U.S. government has only the powers delegated to it by the Constitution of the United States on the authority of the sovereign people of the United States by whom it is ordained and established. The State governments, established by sovereign decision of the people of the respective States, continue to enjoy the powers vested in them by their State constitutions, subject only to the specific prohibitions spelled out in the U.S. Constitution.
For many years I've stressed the importance of the 10th amendment as it guards against the establishment of consolidated, despotic power at the national level. For a while I was met by incomprehension, incredulity and some ridicule from people who insisted that the Courts have eliminated the 10th amendment from the Constitution through their refusal to respect and enforce it. (This is, by the way, the same argument some are using to excuse the palpable dereliction of Federal Judges and officials who refuse to demand proof that the Alleged Usurper in the White House satisfies the Constitution's eligibility requirement.) However as I have often said, a long string of cases in which the Courts have willfully ignore the Constitution is not a weighty line of precedents, but a long train of abuses.
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You hit the nail on the head. The states fold to bribes and *allow* federal control. “If you want money for X, you’ll agree to Y.”
Take the money to improve your college campus and you’re now bound to the rules which came with the money.
If the state balks at the rule or restriction, the Fed can simply say, “you agreed to Y by accepting the money.”
I can very much see a state being asked to pay back all the bribe money if they later reject the attached rule.
Greedy whores.
AMEN!
Now only if the GOP & its leadership could begin to take this Amendment seriously....fat chance, however, especially when they regain control of Congress!
America’s Independent Party, of which Dr. Keyes is a part, takes the Tenth Amendment, and the rest of the Constitution, very seriously.
From AIP’s Platform:
Restoring limited government
We seek to restore the intended balance between the three separate branches of our government, and to strictly limit government to the Enumerated Powers granted and expressed by the will of the people of the United States in our Constitution.
All existing functions of the Executive branch that are outside of those Enumerated Powers must be eliminated.
All spending and regulation by the Legislative branch that lies outside the Enumerated Powers must cease.
Judges who attempt to legislate from the bench, or who abandon the clear principles of our Constitution, must be checked if liberty and justice are to prevail in our society once again.
We demand a return to adherence to the provisions of the Tenth Amendment: “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.”
http://aipnews.com/mxPage.asp?ID=3
I respect the AIP & Dr. Keyes, the fact that he admires President Lincoln notwithstanding (hey, nobody’s perfect, not even our best & brightest!). I voted for Pastor Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party in the 2008 election.
“These guys need to STOP and we need to demand it.”
Absolutely. Insolvency needs to be followed by bankruptcy, whether it be a state, an auto company, or a bank.
The creation of zombie companies that are insolvent but still in business because of government support is the real problem - not that government tells these companies how much to pay the zombie company executives.
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