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To: DoodleDawg
What are you talking about? The Constitution does need to grant the people that power. In fact, the Constitution does not GRANT anything to the people. The Constitution is an agreement by which certain powers already held by individual states, and by the people therein, are relinquished to a federal government.

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?

41 posted on 12/17/2014 11:19:35 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: WayneS; DoodleDawg

Pardon me: “The Constitution does NOT need to grant the people that power”.


42 posted on 12/17/2014 11:20:43 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: WayneS
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.

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.

43 posted on 12/17/2014 11:54:04 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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