Question: “Where’s The Constitutional Authority?”
We do not have any, but “I won”.
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“Where’s The Constitutional Authority?”
Only Liberals are brilliant enough to see that it exists. All others are doomed, in their stupidity, to be restricted by some old piece of paper, written by a bunch of white men who are no longer alive. Doncha know?
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There is no Constitutional Authority. But that doesn’t bother the left. They do whatever they want as long as it forces America closer to their ideal of a marxist paradise.
If their response is in the “General Welfare” clause, ask “Why, then, did the authors of the Constitution set up an elaborate set of checks and balances, with carefully enumerated powers, when they could have just said ‘The Federal Government shall promote the General Welfare’ and saved themselves a long, hot summer in Philadelphia?”
Ruh roh . . . . . somebody just made the White House "enemies" list!!
The phrase "general welfare" occurs twice in the Consitution. The first time it appears is in the Preamable, which the courts have held to "convey no law." The second time it appears is in the taxation clause, about which James Madison (you know, the father or the Constitution) said:
Some, who have not denied the necessity of the power of taxation, have grounded a very fierce attack against the Constitution, on the language in which it is defined. It has been urged and echoed, that the power ``to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States,'' amounts to an unlimited commission to exercise every power which may be alleged to be necessary for the common defense or general welfare. No stronger proof could be given of the distress under which these writers labor for objections, than their stooping to such a misconstruction.ML/NJHad no other enumeration or definition of the powers of the Congress been found in the Constitution, than the general expressions just cited, the authors of the objection might have had some color for it; though it would have been difficult to find a reason for so awkward a form of describing an authority to legislate in all possible cases. A power to destroy the freedom of the press, the trial by jury, or even to regulate the course of descents, or the forms of conveyances, must be very singularly expressed by the terms ``to raise money for the general welfare. ''
But what color can the objection have, when a specification of the objects alluded to by these general terms immediately follows, and is not even separated by a longer pause than a semicolon? If the different parts of the same instrument ought to be so expounded, as to give meaning to every part which will bear it, shall one part of the same sentence be excluded altogether from a share in the meaning; and shall the more doubtful and indefinite terms be retained in their full extent, and the clear and precise expressions be denied any signification whatsoever? For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power? Nothing is more natural nor common than first to use a general phrase, and then to explain and qualify it by a recital of particulars. But the idea of an enumeration of particulars which neither explain nor qualify the general meaning, and can have no other effect than to confound and mislead, is an absurdity, which, as we are reduced to the dilemma of charging either on the authors of the objection or on the authors of the Constitution, we must take the liberty of supposing, had not its origin with the latter. [The Federalist No. 41 excerpt]
The Bible.
The US Constitution.
Two books that most elected officials are woefully ignorant of.
The RIGHT do to this doesn’t come from winning an election.
And, if this is such a monumental need for the American people and many liberals try to define health care as a right anyway, why not make it a legitimate amendment to the the US Constitution and go through that process? Huh?
We already know the answer to that.
Some of us are smarter than 1 of them.
I simply hope that these elected officials keep on this track. The American people will come to a crucible moment and I believe that we “get it” and throw these bassturds out. (misspelling on propose, cause its funnier that way).