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The U.S. Constitution and how the government is exceeding the powers granted it by this document
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The purpose of this blog is to inform everyone that he Federal Government has far exceeded it powers as granted by our Constitution.
Although the average person has a rather hazy idea about our Constitution, it is one of the simplest and clearest documents ever written, and is far easire to understrand than 99% of tehlegal papers written today.
It is impossible to understand the history of the United States, or its government, without understanding our Constitution. It is very difficult, if not impossible, to grasp any phase of our social interaction with government, without a clear understanding of the principles which undrline the document upon which our political, economic, and social structure rests.
Although the study of the Constitution sounds very boring, it can be the most interesting partr of United States history. One important and interesting aspect is learning that many of the concepts we believe to be true, due to listening to our politicians and the news media's spin on the Constitution is totally false.
The Constitution was drawn up by as able a body of men as ever assembled for any given task. The Framers were students of history, and by profiting by the mistakes of others, they selected the great working principles of government from the beginning of history to their own time and incorporated them into this marvelously simple and concise document.
"The American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man" - Gladstone
Our Federal Government was established for the purpose of protecting the unalienable rights of the individual, and the Constitution was adopted to replace the failed Articles of Confederation and restrict the powers of the Federal Government.
The Tenth Amendment clearly states, “ The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, not prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The powers granted the Federal Government are in Article 1, Section 8, while the powers prohibited to the States are in Article 1, Section 10 of our Constitution.
James Madison, considered the Father of the Constitution, stated the following::
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce."
"The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security."
“The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.”
“With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.”
“It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government.”
“The Constitution supposes, what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of government most interested in war, and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature.”
“If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint
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