FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
While federal safety regulation of airlines is arguably a good idea, it remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the post-17th Amendment ratification, unconstitutionally big federal government the specific powers to do a whole lot of things that it is now doing, no power to dictate the qualifications of airline pilots for example.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, the only mention of safety in Constitution limits the federal government's power to police safety to cases associated with rebellion or insurrection.
"Article I, Section 9, Clause 2: The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it [emphasis added]."
In other words, it has long been impossible to reverse-engineer the actions of the very corrupt federal government to its actual, constitutionally enumerated powers.
Based on regular unconstitutional federal government interference in the affairs of the sovereign states, the Constitution should arguably be longer then the unconstitutional, unaccountable, 2,600+ page spending bills that desperate Democratic-controlled Congress infamously makes.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Next, patriots are reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.
Again, insights welcome.
I can agree that the federal government has usurped many powers that, under the constitution, belong to the states.
However, I believe that creating the FAA to establish rules and regulations for airlines is constitutional under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution (AKA Commerce clause).
Airlines carry passengers and cargo between states and foreign nations. Clearly, this is "commerce" as defined in the Commerce clause.
Unfortunately, the Commerce clause is often incorrectly cited as rationale for the federal government to usurp state power.
Above are my insights & thanks for giving me the opportunity to provide them.