Posted on 11/19/2015 6:18:13 PM PST by rmlew
No. It is good election politics to have something.
Of course, the Kentucky Resolutions were used to keep the US government from stopping the importation of potentially dangerous foreigners.
Has it ever occurred to you that it would be even better election politics to have the RIGHT thing?
Yes, taking the time to amend the Constitution to grant the feds the power that they urgently need to address time-critical issues is a problem. And you would think that the states would have addressed such problems by now. But the states have been asleep at the wheel as evidenced by the unconstitutionally big federal government.
As a side-note about delays, I understand that the Allied invasion of Normandy was successful because Hitler was at a weekend birthday party for one of his generals, corrections welcome. The front-line German soldiers had to leave a message on Hitlers answering machine. /sarc
”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” - James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)
”The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all.” - Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.
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