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To: Amendment10

WTF does that mean?


6 posted on 04/30/2013 2:43:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
WTF does that mean?

Thank you for your concern 2ndDivisionVet. But frankly, I'm not sure where to start.

Military issues aside, basically the only reason that many patriots regard the Oval Office as the most powerful office in the land is because they have never gotten themselves up to speed on the federal government's constitutionally limited powers.

For example, for "government" services like Social Security and healthcare, it means that many patriots don't seem to understand that the states have never delegated to Congress via the Constitution the specific powers to tax and spend for such services. This is why I've been posting, ad nauseum, Justice John Marshall's official clarification that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially issues which Congress cannot justify under its Section 8, Article I limited powers.

“"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

In fact, where federal domestic policy is concerned, practically the only power that the president has to regulate what can arguably be regarded as intrastate commerce is to sign bills from Congress which affect postal services (Clause 7 of Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution). Otherwise, regardless what FDR's activist justices wanted everybody to believe about Congress's Commerce Clause powers, Congress has no power to regulate intrastate commerce.

Again, neither the Oval Office, or the rest of the federal government for that matter, should be regarded as the most powerful offices in the land where domestic policy is concerned.

32 posted on 04/30/2013 3:14:13 PM PDT by Amendment10
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