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To: Cold Heat
Something I seem to be having difficulty explaining to you, or you simply don’t want to understand it.

Congress is you.

All power is given to congress by you.

Bullshit.

All the power that Congress has was given to it by the States and codified in the US Constitution. Unless and until it is modified by amendment, those powers remain as they were originally understood and intended by those who wrote and ratified it. None of us have to power to alter that except by the process of amendment.

181 posted on 11/12/2015 12:11:30 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

I really feel for ya.....

But you could not be more confused. Or you are simply reaching for things that are not there.

I think we are done with this....don’t you?


183 posted on 11/12/2015 12:14:18 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: tacticalogic
All the power that Congress has was given to it by the States and codified in the US Constitution.

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If the above words were true in practice (it's a distortion of federalism) then you would not have fed congressmen, but only State congressmen and State senators.

The federal government therefore would be overseen by the States. It would be something other than what it is today. It would have virtually no power of it's own as every minutia could be challenged by any one of the States.

That power exists today through the Congress and the other two branches.. It's how a representative Republic is designed.

You currently have that ability, in point of fact Colorado has the right to sue the fed. That case would be adjudicated in federal court but what would happen is that a judge would say at some point that the State lacks standing. It has to be a damaged individual to proceed.

All power resides in the people except for what they have ceded to the State and to the Fed Gov.

I don't think that premise can be changed unless you eliminate the Constitution and try something else. The State signed away some of it's own powers when it adopted the constitution. Those powers now reside with congress.

188 posted on 11/12/2015 12:27:41 PM PST by Cold Heat
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