Posted on 06/29/2023 7:54:52 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
Section 8
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;–And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
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.
Is that thing even a thing any more?
You’re on the right track here.
Art. I, Sec. 8 is the main body of LIMITED and ENUMERATED powers DELEGATED to the feds by the states and the people as CONFIRMED by the 10A.
The American People, deliberately made ignorant by the Delusional Lying left, need to be re-educated about their God-given and constitutionally-protected rights and the degree to which the feds are now 80%+ unconstitutional.
THIS is the heart of the mess we’re in today, the “Deep State” and “The Swamp” defined simply as the $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal government which has now become totalitarian.
Imagine in this day and age, giving this power to liberal democrats...
It’s obsolete. Our founding fathers failed for foresee the need for a deepstate to manage modern affairs and didn’t allow for it. Yet here we are. It’s a force of nature and if natural law dictates it must be so, it must be constitutional, right? /s
if only to get SCOTUS to read it..
I missed the part about controlling education and the relations between the sexes.
They try to lump all the stolen power stuff under this part: “and general Welfare of the United States”
So does nearly every Democrat and Republican for over a century.
GEN’ERAL: Public; common; relating to or comprehending the whole community; as the general interest or safety of a nation.
WELFARE: Exemption from any unusual evil or calamity; the enjoyment of peace and prosperity, or the ordinary blessings of society and civil government; applied to states.
Websters 1828 Dictionary
So, general welfare, when applied to the states, means the exemption from unusual evil or calamity and the enjoyment of peace, prosperity, and blessings of society for the community as a whole. The next logical question should be, “What community?”
Notice the Constitution does not say the general welfare of the people of the United States, nor the general welfare of the States, but of the United States. Today, when we think of the United States, we usually think of a nation broken into 50 subdivisions we call states, but when the Constitution was ratified, we had 13 independent states who joined together and delegated some of their powers to a central government called the United States. This distinction may seem trivial, but it is actually quite important. If the United States is a single government subdivided into smaller units we call states, then Washington rules and your states are really colonies of Washington, not much different than their condition in 1776 under British rule. If, however, we are 50 sovereign states who have delegated some of their power to the union, and if the term United States refers to the union and its central government, then the meaning of the phrase, “The Congress shall have 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” means something different. It means that Congress can collect taxes to pay the debts of the federal government, not those of the states. It means Congress can collect taxes to pay for the defense of the nation as a whole, not the defense of individual states. And most importantly, it means Congress can collect taxes to pay for the general welfare of the United States, not the people or the individual states. Source: Constitution Study
I like this part of the Declaration of Independence:
“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government”
This part of the DoI is awesome as well:
“when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Man, keep reading down in the DoI and count the number of offenses of England apply to today’s U.S. government.
I remember when those little helicopter type drones were first coming out and manufactures were afraid to sell them en masse because they wanted to see what the regulations would be.
They didn’t even consider that, since it wasn’t regulated, they could do what they want.
At the time the constitution was written the word regulate was defined as ‘to make normal’.
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
The BIGGEST unconstitutional crime by the government and it is ongoing. We need to switch to a system where all 18 year old children, are required to serve 2 years and get military training. They can cycle out to reserve status and return to retrain in an orderly way. It is the best way to keep HS graduates out of College until they see reality first. Plus very few Richie Rich’s getting in as officers, let that happen after basic training, service and the in between years of education. When they return from both, they should be well on the way to adulthood.
/shameless plug for my website
As in "a well-regulated militia".
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