Implied Powers? Clearly Implied Limitations!

Truth Based Logic ^ | April, 2013 | William Flax

[DariusBane]

I will vote for your proposal.

[itsahoot]

But tell me this. When has Liberty ever prevailed amongst humans?

"1Sa 8:5: And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations."

A condition as old as man. Then of course Paul queried as to what would restrain the desperately wicked man that he himself was.

[itsahoot]

Today if a civil war consumed 2% that would be in the order of 6.8 million Americans.

Chicken feed...Alinsky surmised they would have to kill off about 25 million and that was when the population was a little less...

April 1, 1960. Total U.S. Population, 179,323,175

[jeffc]

However, the act of unilateral secession was the subject of a SCOTUS ruling that currently stands as settled law.

Any liberal will tell you that a law is not settled if they disagree with it, why can't we?

I say if the Constitution does not specifically allow the Feds something, then it is illegal for them do to it, I don't care what convoluted reasoning or interpretation SCOTUS uses to justify their ruling. And, again I say, if it is not specifically prohibited in the Constitution through plain language, then the people and the states have the right to do what they want (Caveat: you can't plan for all future occurrences, so some things must be generalized and "interpreted" later. Interstate rules "Commerce Clause" come to mind).

We've all seen recently how the monkey judges jump through hoops to give the Feds more power through how they RE-interpret what the Founding Fathers intended.

I do agree that the Southerners went the wrong way in seceding in attacking Fort Sumter. They should have better prepared themselves for war before leaving and then dared the North to do something about it. Then pull a Palistinian on them and cry out for "justification" from the rest of the world. Hey, it works for them!

[Ohioan]

Gentlemen:

Granted that some remedies for the present malady--that is, a Government in Washington that is largely indifferent to the limitations on its own power;--that some remedies might lead to ugly consequences of their own The best way to avoid such consequences is to wake up as many people of good will in our midst, as possible: First to how totally illegal are many of the actions now being taken, Secondly--& concurrently--to the clear, experience based, reasons why the Constitutional framework of the founders, is indeed the best possible one.

When Reagan upped the ante by stepping up our arms race, Communism in Eastern Europe collapsed, not in a bloody uprising but because most intelligent people realized that it was a disaster, from the get-go.

Whatever may be coming, we need to persuade as many of our fellow countrymen, as possible, to the merits of our beliefs.

William Flax