Posted on 12/17/2014 3:49:35 AM PST by HomerBohn
If the federal government has not been specifically granted a particular power, then the federal government does not have that power; it is retained by the states, or by the people.
The right of a people to choose their own form of government is argued quite effectively and eloquently in the Declaration of Independence.
Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution grants the federal government the power to ADMIT additional states to the Union, but nowhere in that document is the federal government empowered to create new states.
Exactly how much power do you want to give the federal government, anyway?
Pardon me: “The Constitution does NOT need to grant the people that power”.
And the Federal government was granted the power to create new states in Article IV, Section 3.
The right of a people to choose their own form of government is argued quite effectively and eloquently in the Declaration of Independence.
And is limited to a republican form of government in Article IV as well. Section 4.
Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution grants the federal government the power to ADMIT additional states to the Union, but nowhere in that document is the federal government empowered to create new states.
And unless Congress admits them then how can they be states? The act of admitting is also the act of creating.
Exactly how much power do you want to give the federal government, anyway?
The amount provided for by the Constitution. No more, no less.
IIRC, military bases are one of the constitutionally allowable lands to be owned by the general government.
Apparently, you do not know the meaning of the word state.
Enlighten me.
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