This is a Tea Partier:
Go with the Tea Partier.
Posted on 11/11/2009 10:22:40 PM PST by Jim Robinson
The Tea Party Express successfully completes its second cross-country bus tour, tonight, in Orlando, Florida. This second Tea Party Express tour in 2009 included 41 Tea Party rallies in 41 cities covering 17 states in 19 days! Woo hoo! My ears are still ringing and heart still pounding!
Thousands of patriotic citizens turned out all across this great land to help us tell Obama & Co that we're fed up and we're not going to take it any longer! We're determined to take our country back from the Marxist usurpers! No more taxes! No more socialism! No more bailouts! No more takeovers! No more big government spending! No more government intrusion! No to government healthcare! Stop the madness and roll it all back!!
We are delivering notices and pink slips to all constitution ignoring usurpers regardless of party affiliation! We demand our constitution back! We demand our state sovereignty back! We demand our individual sovereignty back! The out of control, unconstitutional federal behemoth must be tamed and its constitutional limits restored! We demand our God-given unalienable rights back!!
When the people fear the government, we have tyranny. When the government fears the people, we have freedom!
USURPERS BEWARE!
The Founders rebelled over much less tyranny than we're experiencing today!
DON'T TREAD ON ME!
Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God!
Floridians please join us in Orlando if you can!
Please join and welcome Deborah Johns, Mark Williams, The Rivoli Revue, Lloyd Marcus, Diana Nagy, Amy Kremer, William and Selena Owens, Kenneth Gladney and other Tea Party Express speakers and entertainers to Orlando!
I'll be there along with FReepers Syncro (as Dr. Zoo), Impeach98, Seekthetruth and many others from the Florida chapter!! Look for the Florida Chapter's Free Republic booth!
Thursday, November 12th at 6:00 pm
Rally Location: Lake Eola Park, 195 N Rosalind Ave, Orlando, FL 32801
See you there!!
Wish I could be there!
Ping your lists. Ping, er, call your friends, neighbors, co-workers and relatives. There’s a tea party going on!!
Good Job, Fearless Leader!
Give them a kick in the keester for me, will ya? “This one’s for Grammie”! WHAM!
This is a Tea Partier:
Go with the Tea Partier.
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ToY.....tea and Florida....bump
Hoping we can keep up the anger with both the Democrats and the RINOs! Let them know we have had enough! I really hope this keeps going!
Amen!
See you there Jim.... :-)
Damn this globull warming. Not a single storm this season, and one comes up in November. :)
Give DC hell.
Will see you there! I bow to you, sir!
I’ll be there! Whoo Hoo!! bttt
Veto of federal public works bill
March 3, 1817
"To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and consistent rules of interpretation, as rendering the special and careful enumeration of powers which follow the clause nugatory and improper. Such a view of the Constitution would have the effect of giving to Congress a general power of legislation instead of the defined and limited one hitherto understood to belong to them, the terms "common defense and general welfare" embracing every object and act within the purview of a legislative trust. It would have the effect of subjecting both the Constitution and laws of the several States in all cases not specifically exempted to be superseded by laws of Congress, it being expressly declared "that the Constitution of the United States and laws made in pursuance thereof shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges of every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding." Such a view of the Constitution, finally, would have the effect of excluding the judicial authority of the United States from its participation in guarding the boundary between the legislative powers of the General and the State Governments, inasmuch as questions relating to the general welfare, being questions of policy and expediency, are unsusceptible of judicial cognizance and decision."
James Madison
President of the United States
“What defines the “general welfare”?
As James Madison explained, the general welfare is defined by the list of enumerated powers in the seventeen clauses that follow. These include the power to borrow money, to establish post offices, to define and punish piracy, to raise and support armies.
The fundamental point was that the federal government did not possess a general grant of power, but was limited to enumerated or delegated powers. The rest of the general reservoir of governmental power (known as the “police power”) was left to the states. The Tenth Amendment reiterated the point.
The language of the Constitution was quite explicit about this precise to the point of punctuation. A draft of the document at the Constitutional Convention contained a semicolon between the taxing phrase and the general welfare phrase. As an independent clause, the taxing power could have been used for any purpose under the sun. Instead, the sharp-eyed founders substituted a comma for the semicolon, thus tethering the taxing power to the general welfare clause and the enumerated powers.
It is notable that the enumerated powers all involve subjects that are of genuinely national significance many concern foreign affairs, the territories, and the federal district. Hardly anyone would deny that the army and navy could be left to states or individuals. The enumerated powers are also notably specific. Why write that Congress has the power to “provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States” if Congress could punish all sorts of other crimes?
Of course, the list includes the power “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.” But this simply meant that Congress enjoyed a choice of means by which it could achieve the foregoing ends.
It is true that, contra Madison, Alexander Hamilton regarded the general welfare clause as a grant of power beyond those enumerated. But even Hamilton agreed that the end had to be general. ...”
Read it all: http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/24/the-education-of-congressman-hoyer/
Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist 22 writes : The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.
That’s us. That’s we, the people.
In Federalist 23, he writes of the “principal purposes” of a union of the states: “...the common defence of the members; the preservation of the public peace, as well against internal convulsion as external attacks; the regulation of commerce with other nations and between the States; the superintendence of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries. “
Those are the principal purposes of our United States government. Not taking over private corporations like banks and auto companies and insurance companies. Or, the entire health care system. Not determining and confiscating the pay of private individuals. Those, my friends are the principal purposes of Socialist regimes.
Consent of the People http://www.wiseandfrugalgovernment.blogspot.com/
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