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Though the Court has ruled that the Biden Administration's "partnership" with social media to censor freedom of speech is unconstitutional, New York Attorney General Letitia James, along with the attorneys general of 20 other states, is asking the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to overrule this decision and allow the Biden administration to continue to instruct social media companies on impermissible content. "The risk to health and welfare from allowing erroneous ideas to poison the minds of the people is of sufficient magnitude to outweigh a misguided belief that a so-called individual right to freedom should prevent...

Rights and responsibilities EDITOR: I’m so tired of people who don’t have their children vaccinated because they claim they have the right not to have their children vaccinated. I suggest they read the preamble to the Constitution, from which our rights are derived. The preamble clearly states that one of the purposes of the Constitution is “to promote the general welfare.” It seems to me that means that the general welfare is more important than individuals. I believe it was the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who said, “The right to swing my fist ends where the other...

Do The "General Welfare" And The "Necessary And Proper" Clauses Grant Congress Powers And Authorities That Are In Addition To The Other Enumerated Powers? "It cannot be presumed that any clause in the Constitution is intended to be without effect, and therefore such construction is inadmissible unless the words require it." ~ Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 The interpretation of the General Welfare clause as a general grant of power separate from any of the others would cause most of Article I, section 8 to be "without effect." That alone destroys the argument that the General Welfare clause grants...

There are two distinct methods the Democrats have used to write unconstitutional laws. The first is through malice. This method has been employed since FDR by the continuous chipping away with the uncontested usurping of the document by a political sect that harbors a stalwart disdain and insolent disposition regarding the Constitution, its limited constraints on the federal government, and by proxy, the Founding Fathers.