LICENSING OF VARIOUS ‘PROFESSIONS’ IS JUST A STATE MONEYMAKING SCHEME...........
But the people who have the power to pass idiotic legislation, waste taxpayer funds, declare war, tell us what we can/cannot put in our own bodies, and regulate every aspect of our lives, don’t even have to be literate.
(And judging by some of the laws they pass, that may very well be the case.)
The underlying principle highlighted by this little story is, however, that America's Founders and Framers of its Constitution for self-government never intended legislators to possess such powers as they profess nowadays.
“...the natural tendency of things is for government to gain ground and for liberty to yield...let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Thomas Jefferson
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>> “We’re not even talking about doctors and dentists here.” <<
We can easily avoid doctors, I do completely, but what about structural engineers?
Would you want to drive over an un-engineered bridge? (like say, the one in Minnesota that fell into the river with a full load of cars and trucks?)
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FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Following in the footsteps of federal constitutional lawmakers, state constitutional lawmakers modeled state constitutions on the federal Constitution.
From federal constitution:
Article. I. Section 1: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Ӥ1. Legislative Power; Composition; Continuous BodySection 1.(A) Legislative Power of State. The legislative power of the state is vested in a legislature, consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives [emphasis added]. The Senate shall be composed of one senator elected from each senatorial district. The House of Representatives shall be composed of one representative elected from each representative district."
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Federal and state lawmakers now exercise legislative powers in ways that ignore their respective constitutions imo as if they either don't understand the intentions of constitutional lawmakers, or just don't care, evidenced by constitutionally undefined, non-elected regulatory agencies of both fed and state governments.
More specifically, although lawmakers in both federal and state governments have full constitutional responsibility for how they exercise legislative powers, regardless whether they want that responsibility or not, career lawmakers instead seemingly protect their voting records by establishing constitutionally undefined government agencies run by non-elected bureaucrats who unconstitutionally exercise those legislative powers on behalf of career lawmakers.
So effectively nobody in federal or state governments is taking responsibility for how legislative powers are used.
In other words, federal and state government are being run by non-elected bureaucrats, this politically correct situation effectively nullify voting power imo.
But note that the Founding States gave the feds the specific power to protect citizens from states that ignore legal voters.
"Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [emphasis added], and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
But since feds are as corrupt as the states imo, patriots need to do the following before working with federal lawmakers to “reset” the states.
Patriots need to finish the job that they started when they elected Trump president.
More specifically, patriots now need to be making sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the 2018 primary federal ballots, candidates who will commit to doing their constitutional duty to guarantee each state a republican form of government, and pink-slip career lawmakers by sending patriot candidate lawmakers to DC on election day.
And until the states wise up and repeal 17A, evidenced by concerns about the integrity of the outcome of Alabama's and Pennsylvania's special elections, patriot candidates need to win elections by a large enough margin to compensate for the following concerns.
Intel Chair: FBI, DOJ Obstructing Trump Probe in Hope of Dem Takeover in Congress
Keep Pelosi from becoming Speaker again.
Obama: Pelosi will be speaker again after November midterms
Keep Democrats from impeaching Trump.
Democratic Rep. Al Green says he will force House impeachment vote
Young, misguided, newly registered pro-gun control voters who are likely clueless about the fed's constitutionally limited powers.
Possible deep state ballot box fraud and associated MSM scare tactics.
Interference from people like Soros.
Hacking Democracy: