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To: Lunatic Fringe

"I want a smaller government, but I want one that provides sensible and efficient services."

In other words, you want a federal government that blatantly and openly violates and ignores the Constitution which established it. The Founders explicitly stated which powers it could exercise and that anything that was not SPECIFIED as a power of the federal government was specifically NOT a power of the federal government. Well, guess what? Your dream come true in all its nightmarish glory. FedGov is providing all the unconstitutional and extraconstitutional services your little heart could desire.

Please point out to me the SPECIFIC areas of the constitution which authorize FedGov to have the Education Department, the Labor Department, the FAA, the Transportation and Energy departments, the FBI, even. You must show the exact location in the Constitution where these things are mentioned, because if you don't, then the Tenth Amendment applies and these become illegitimate power grabs on the part of FedGov and must be done away with if ever we are to have a Constitutional Republic once again.


107 posted on 12/21/2006 10:06:05 AM PST by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: dcwusmc
Please point out to me the SPECIFIC areas of the constitution which authorize FedGov to have the Education Department, the Labor Department, the FAA, the Transportation and Energy departments, the FBI, even. You must show the exact location in the Constitution where these things are mentioned, because if you don't, then the Tenth Amendment applies and these become illegitimate power grabs on the part of FedGov and must be done away with if ever we are to have a Constitutional Republic once again.

"The Congress shall have power …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."

119 posted on 12/21/2006 10:59:12 AM PST by Lunatic Fringe (Say "NO" to the Trans-Texas Corridor)
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