Posted on 03/02/2013 5:56:17 AM PST by Jacquerie
The nature of government is control and the nature of control is to ever increasingly improve its ability to maintain and exercise itself. Left unchecked, any power will expand to every breadth, width and niche in which it is not opposed.
Undermining the wisdom of the Founders began quickly with one of their peers. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall, appointed by John Adams, laid the foundation of current constitutional law. He also set the precedence whereby judges can overrule the people under broad powers not actually granted the judiciary under the Constitution. In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), the issue at hand, and the first death-blow to our republic, was the meaning of the "necessary and proper" clause,
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. [Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 18]
In his ruling, Marshall either through calculated federalism or a serious error in logic, defined the meaning of "necessary" as,
[t]o employ the means necessary to an end, is generally understood as employing any means calculated to produce the end, and not as being confined to those single means, without which the end would be entirely unattainable. ~ McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Still, court decisions have been overturned, and his redefinition of "necessary and proper" should have been one of them.
hold for later
In your lifetime and maybe even mine we will see the overprinting of our currency into denominations of thousands and maybe million dollar values as the dollar itself will be debased as was the currency in Zimbabwe. It has happened in history many times. We are not immune. Ref: Germany, Italy, etc. etc.
Iraq is a prime example...geez....everyone was running around with a millions of dinar - worth $100...
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