Posted on 12/20/2009 1:51:33 AM PST by broken_arrow1
U.S. Constitution Enumerated Powers clause explicitly enumerates all the power the Federal Government should have - period!
Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
Amendment X
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.
Attn ... HERITAGE FOUNDATION... could I have 535 copies of your Declaration/Constitution Booklet... Please deliver to:
CONGRESS, Washington,DC
I’m an Uber-originalist.
But after enumerating authorities to build armies and navies, where is the authority for an AIR force? ;-)
James Madison observed: “Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks, no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.”
In 1776, Thomas Paine wrote: “Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance, and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing it’s true interests, and when they succeed to the government, are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.”
Clearly an old, outdated document that has 0 meaning in DC today.
dope
Just something else Congress signed off on without reading!
We can split straws or go back to refering to it as the Army Air Force.
IMO- this point obviously needs to be better regulated to protect us from abuse.
That’s what the Revolution and 2nd Amendment were supposed to do... at least until the Whiskey Rebellion (1792-1795)
Incidentally, Thomas Jefferson didn’t write the Constitution. He was in France. The post should be signed James Madison or George Washington.
Thank you for posting. I’ve been pointing for many months any federal version of health care is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 does not specifically grant Congress the power to regulate health care. The people are not bound by any unconstitutional act of Congress and must respond with civil disobedience should they try to ram this scam down the throats of the American people.
You are right!...My Bad. Date for ratification is a little sketchy too.
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Good to go. Say where and when.
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