While I agree with the mission of the FAA in principle, patriots need to learn to question all actions of the corrupt federal government by first checking the Constitution to see if the states have expressly delegated to the feds the specific power to justify an action.
And in the case of the FAA, not only have the states never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution the specific power to regulate drones, but neither have the states delegated to the feds the specific power to establish the FAA.
In other words, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson had warned patriots about the corrupt federal government wrongly expanding its powers, little by little, outside the framework of the Constitution.
”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)
”To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791
”The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all.” —Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.
In the case of the FAA, it is a good example of expansion of federal powers without the required consent of the Constitution’s Article V state majority imo.
Note that it has long been impossible to reverse-engineer what the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers are based on its actions.
Wake up patriots !
The clock is ticking.
“Wake up patriots ! The clock is ticking.”
Airliners flying across the US should have to deal with 15 different FAA’s as they do so? Clearly you aren’t in the aviation business. Also, you might not be a constitutional scholar. Southwest airlines based in Dallas, taking off for Denver for commercial purposes, is very clearly engaging in interstate commerce. There is a constitutional clause about that that kind of thing you might find interesting.
The FAA, cant believe I would ever go to bat for _them_. But yeah, they aren’t unconstitutional as a concept, and no, the existence of an FAA is not exactly a “patriots arise” moment.
FAA falls nicely under the Commerce Clause.
Post Roads may actually be better. (The original air routes were actually air mail routes, and a lot of mail still goes by plane.)
http://sometimes-interesting.com/2013/12/04/concrete-arrows-and-the-u-s-airmail-beacon-system/. (The original air routes were actually air mail routes, and a lot of mail still goes by plane.)