Don't let anyone tell you that ObamaCare isn't a blatantly illegal assault on the Constitution.
The 10th Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Opponents of the Constitution (liberals) try to excuse their open disregard for the rule of law by deliberately misinterpreting the things like the Commerce Clause or the General Welfare Clause to mean that Congress can do anything it feels like, as long as it can be construed to be "promoting the general welfare of the country," for example.
This is a bald-faced lie that can be debunked beyond question. James Madison, Architect of the Constitution, was confronted with this exact attempt to illegally expand federal powers in 1817, and he responded by emphatically denying that this was ever the intent of the Founders, or that they would have ever even ratified the Constitution in the first place if anyone involved had mistaken it to mean something so broad.
He clarified that the powers of the federal government are "few and defined, and that the rights of the states and of the people were "numerous and indefinite." He went on to explain that such a bastardization of what was created by the Founders would render "the special and careful enumeration of powers which follow the clause nugatory and improper. Such a view of the Constitution would give the Congress a general power of legislation instead of the defined and limited one hitherto understood to belong to them."
Case closed. Obama is at war with the Constitution.
And for those who visionlessly insist that we couldn't function if we have fifty independent states running their own affairs, I direct your attention to Europe, where the individual members of the European Union have yet to spiral into a chaos and anarchy from the EU not having the power to govern over them all, as opposed to being merely a coalition between them, as the federal government was intended to be here.
Control the borders, settle interstate disputes, deal with foreign governments. That is pretty much the extent of the federal government's actual legal authority. Why does this matter? Because 90% of the problems we have right now wouldn't exist if we were following the Constitution and keeping nearly all the power at the state and local level, where the individual has maximum control over his own community and affairs.
But instead, we continue to illegally nationalize all the power and control away from the individual and the rightful sovereign states, and into the hands of a tiny handful of unaccountable extremists in Washington. This is the problem. This is our struggle.
If you would like to know more about the 10th Amendment or to the fight to restore it, just click here.
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That's awesome Cyndi! Thanks.
It's not only the 10th ammendment but the first also. Our freedom of speach is being challenged in congress as we speak. C-span earlier this evening showed Rep.John Carter, Rep. Ted Poe, and others spoke out about what they can and cannot say to the public about this HR3200 Bill. Wake up Americans or you'll soon be led like cattle to the slaughter. The poor cattle are treated horrifically before they die. May this an exaggeration but our right to liberty, justice and the pursuit of happiness are on the line.
I saw this on CSPAN too.
It really is appalling how many people have been stripped of basic rights under this fascist axis of incompetence (Pelosi, Reid, Obama).
The very first thing this "most open, most honest, most ethical Congress in history," as Pelosi hilariously puts it, did when it took over was to strip their opponents of basic minority rights that have existed almost as long as the republic itself.
Did you hear about them lying about a vote they lost, erasing the record, and changing the result?
These people are reprehensibly corrupt control freaks.
To say Obama is at war with the constitution because he's pushing forward a public health care plan is completely disingenuous. The ability for the government to set up such programs has been long established, the existence of Medicare, Medicade and Social Security prove it. If you are concerned about the constitution it's the supreme court you should be rallying against. 5/9 conservatives on the court and those programs are still active.
Disengenuous? Everything he's doing blatantly violates the Constitution and everything it stands for. It isn't just health care that tramples it.
Long established? So if one Democrat decades ago decided to trample the Constitution, that makes it fine for another one to do it today? Nice logic.
Supreme Court? I DO oppose the Supreme Court...when it butchers the Constitution the way Obama does. The difference is that the Supreme Court takes breaks.
Obama is, like I said, AT WAR, with the Constitution.
Pointing out that others have also trampled it or accepted their collegues trampling it is beyond weak. Either establish that this violation of the 10th Amendment is somehow constitutional or stop making Obama-apologist excuses.
A general restoration of our Constitutional system of government is in order. It is regrettable that we have drifted so far from the Constitution over the last 100+ years that any such restoration at this point would amount to such a dramatic change in so short a time, as to qualify as nothing short of revolutionary.
But such is the distant we are from those constitutionally limited powers of government, and our existing servitude to a government which has all but totally disregarded them.
You're right, Ken. Now that we've allowed them to nationalize so much of our rights and powers away, the question is, what will it take to get them to give it all back up?
One way or another, it has to happen. This anti-Constitution tyranny is ripping our country apart and bankrupting future generations. The Founders would have already been up in arms, literally...but there are other ways...for now:
1) A constitutional Federalism Amendment manually, forcibly stripping the federal government's powers back down to what they were originally designed to encompass.
Then, if that doesn't work...
2) Secession. Several states are already talking about it. The first one to do it will get all the people who want to work, succeed, and be free. Let the rest of the country have Obama's worthless welfare recipient-slugs.
It all comes down to where you draw the line. I'm already there.
"Defiance to Tyranny is Obedience to God."
-Thomas Jefferson
I explain why provisions of ObamaCare are unconstitutional in the commentary, "Legal experts and Civil Rights Commission attack Obama health-care plan as unconstitutional." (I am a lawyer, by the way).
That August 18 commentary can be found both at the Examiner's DC SCOTUS Examiner, and at the Openmarket blog.
The Latest Lie
Well the President in name only admitted what I have been saying for a month when he said this bill will cut the deficit in half?
I said a month ago looking at what was going on with this bill, needing to be passed by the end of the calendar year, was about taxing and collecting as of the 1st of January 2010. The bill, not taking effect until 2014 now, is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme to collect money and in two years Obama can stand up and say he cut the deficit in half.
The deals that went into getting this bill to this point are beyond absurd and warrant a criminal investigation. How can you possibly exempt a state from the Medicare increases “forever” what is that coming from a bunch of lawyers who are supposed to be so much smarter than us? Is this how you instigate an uprising?
The states need to say no, and also send a message to the Senate; Sorry we are opting out?
Why do people need to explore the constitutionality of this?
It is simple, it is not in the enumerated powers, done!
Second; who is going to pay for this?
When will we get it, America is broke, we are in hock to the moon. The money they are promising comes from us. Those that want all these free stuff, wake up its not free. Look at the tax rates of nations that have so called free health care?
All I can say is that if this is your criteria, every President since Abraham Lincoln has been at war with the Constitution.
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