Posted on 06/29/2015 10:12:21 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Trashing the Tenth Amendment.
Let’s refresh our memories about exactly what the Tenth Amendment says:
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.
That is not ambiguous. If the Constitution doesn’t expressly grant the federal government a power or expressly prohibit the states from exercising that same power, then the states and not the federal government have that power. But in both the ObamaCare ruling and the gay marriage ruling last week, the Supreme Court ruled as if the Tenth Amendment did not exist. In essence, by ruling as it did in both cases, it essentially established the federal government as the 51st state - and let there be no doubt, as a more-equal-than-all-others 51st state.
First let’s consider the ObamaCare ruling. Even though the statute says subsidies are only available to those who bought their policies on exchanges “established by the State,” the majority ruled that the federal government can still subsidize those who bought on the federal exchange - because ObamaCare doesn’t work if they can’t. (In other words, the Democrats wrote a law that doesn’t work so the Supremes once again rewrote it in an attempt to make it work.) What they decided, in essence, is that the federal government is a state. That is the only way to square the statutory language with the Court’s ruling.
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Et tu, Roberts?
Not 51st state.
LotR: 50 rings created, then The One State to rule them all.
No, there’s just one state. And one government. States are just for tourist ads. The rest of us are closer to serfs than to citizens.
It all started w the war of northern aggression. Slavery was legal just like abortion is today and the union was split over states rights. The rest is history
51st state?
Clearly, some states are more equal than others.
”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.
No. Others have stated it and so I won’t belabor the point, but this isn’t one among equals, this is One State To Rule Them All.
Note that as a consequnece of the ill-conceived 17th Amendment that the corrupt Senate is approving pro-unconstitutionally big federal government activist justices to the Supreme Court instead of state sovereignty-respecting justices.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear and corrupt senators and anti-state sovereignty activist justices along with it.
Disagree. The U.S. is now one socialist state.
Union of American Socialist Republics
Senators were intended to represent their states. When they do not, they are no longer relevant.
I wouldn’t phrase it that way. They have made the federal government the super-state. Individual states are just an obstacle to the super-state. They just waste time and money.
The superior portions of the super-state are:
1. The Judiciary
2. The Executive.
The federal legislature is just a farce to give the people of the states some sense that they can affect outcomes. They can’t. But it forestalls a revolution of the people.
The idea that the reach of the federal government would be restricted to a few enumerated powers is articulated by Madison in Federalist No. 45:
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”
Once again, the tenth Amendment is ignored. The Bill of Rights is ignored. The Constitution is ignored. Ours is a lawless Federal Government. At what point do we conclude that our national government is illegitimate?
And they just made Mexico the 52nd, Guatemala the 53rd, etc etc.
Fork. Stuck. Done.
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