Posted on 04/27/2020 2:28:50 AM PDT by Jacquerie
The police power, aka internal police, is the capacity of the states to regulate behavior and enforce order for the betterment of the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of their citizens. As for public emergencies, statutes define the extent of police/executive authority and the public purposes they serve. While “police” isn’t found in the US Constitution, this power is natural to state sovereignty and predates the Constitution.
As is happening all across the country, we can and should publicly debate, argue and demonstrate at state capitols over the many excessive, counter-productive and Pyrrhic measures against the CCP virus. In my state, Florida, the legislature can shut down the governor’s emergency powers through a simple joint resolution. Since the law provides a check, a political solution to a political situation, it is best to keep the matter out of courtrooms.1
At the 1787 Federal Convention, many delegates were uneasy with the starting point of debate, Madison's Virginia Plan of government. Such was the national disgust with the states under the Articles of Confederation, the Virginia delegation, led by its governor, proposed a republican yet national form of government that potentially did away with state authority. Not only did the states not yet have their own institution (senate), Madison proposed congressional authority to veto any state law it disapproved.
North Carolina delegate Hugh Williamson did not dispute the need to reorient the forms of a new government to replace the Articles, but immediately inquired if Madison envisioned leaving any power at all, such as the police power, with the states. On this early day in the proceedings (June 8th), Williamson’s question was overwhelmed and tabled by the larger debate over the negative of state laws.
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top 3 concerns for 95 out of 100 cops:
-their own safety (perfectly reasonable)
-their pension
-other cops
your rights aren’t even on their radar
The 13th Amendment banned involuntary servitude.
What is your opinion on the military draft?
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