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To: Amendment10

Well, I think that’s VERY unfair to ask ME about Article 1 Section 8 without looking.

I can memorize anything, but I did not memorize the Constitution, as I carry it with me (I swore an oath—I still live by—to protect it against all enemies, foreign and domestic).

Having said that I’ll take a peek at the words and comment on them.

OK, having peeked, I believe these are the about the powers the Congress of the United States has—not the judiciary or the executive branches, to wit the Courts and the President.

Your point probably involves how those powers are not the powers of the President, but how the whole Congress, either and somehow, over the years, let the president and the judiciary take them or seceded them along.

And I do see your point, but I do not think Trump is illiterate or stupid as some people think, but good God, man! He can read, just like me!

It is LAWYERS who have made a travesty of the plain words of the Constitution. 200 years of slippery, slimey, byzantine-complex, lawyerly, Jesuit-level thinking has convoluted these plain words awfully.

In a world where umbras and woulda/coulda/shouldas actually rule, we’re a mess. YET-—We have now elected someone who could do something, yet he’s attacked by all sides.

I don’t have an answer, but Trump isn’t an ignorant oaf. And there yet remains thousands of famous and so-called minds, even Harvard Law Review editors-in-chiefs for goodness sakes, who look at the words of the Constitution, maybe even know them by heart, but understand them less than Trump.

We call those people democrats.


18 posted on 05/27/2017 1:56:11 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

...thousands of famous and so-called minds...

Read that as ...thousands of so-called famous minds...


19 posted on 05/27/2017 1:59:33 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Alas Babylon!; All
"And I do see your point, but I do not think Trump is illiterate or stupid as some people think, but good God, man! He can read, just like me!"

I agree. Trump is by no means stupid. He is blessed with uncommon common sense.

However …

Based on his not ever mentioning Congress’s Section 8-limited powers (corrections welcome), Trump, like most other US citizens, has probably never been taught about the fed’s Section 8 powers, at least not to the extent that he thought to ask his advisors and nominees if they respect those limited powers when he interviewed them imo.

What I see is that once low-information politicians, including constitutionally low-information, non-politician Trump, get elected to office, although they quickly get themselves up to speed with the pecking order in DC, they probably remain oblivious that the pecking order is based largely on stolen state powers where domestic issues are concerned.

So until Trump actually reads Section 8, Judge Andrew Napolitano easily reading Section 8 in under three minutes, I’m afraid that constitutionally low-information Trump will continue to be “assimilated” by the Borg (Star Trek) Congress.

“Wrong way Riegels,” is another good analogy imo.

Roy Riegels wrong way run in the Rose Bowl

Hopefully patriots will drain the congressional swamp for Trump with their voting power in ’18, something that one person cannot do alone regardless if president.

"It is LAWYERS who have made a travesty of the plain words of the Constitution. 200 years of slippery, slimey, byzantine-complex, lawyerly, Jesuit-level thinking has convoluted these plain words awfully."

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison warned patriots to be on their guard against the feds unconstitutionaly expanding their powers in subtle ways, patriots abysmally failing to do so after almost 241 years imo, evidenced by the size of the unconstitutionally big federal government.

In fact, note that Thomas Jefferson went from an “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence, to warning against apathy with respect to public affairs in the late 18th century.

“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)

The ill-conceived 17th Amendment, the state legislatures foolishly giving up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress when they ratified that amendment, has helped the wolves to devour the constitutional republic imo.

20 posted on 05/27/2017 3:59:37 PM PDT by Amendment10
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