“Too bad we need an Amendment to support the existing 10th Amendment.”
It’s being ignored by Congress and the SCOTUS. Perhaps it needs to be restated. Anything that will limit the federal monster, I am for. This was the beauty and logic of our nation’s founding documents. Anything that will strengthen states relative to the feds, I’m for.
As to RightSide’s comment about the implication of this for CA and NY, it’s not the limiting of federal laws and power that’s the problem for those ‘insane’ majorities.
““Too bad we need an Amendment to support the existing 10th Amendment.”
It’s being ignored by Congress and the SCOTUS. Perhaps it needs to be restated. Anything that will limit the federal monster, I am for. This was the beauty and logic of our nation’s founding documents. Anything that will strengthen states relative to the feds, I’m for.
As to RightSide’s comment about the implication of this for CA and NY, it’s not the limiting of federal laws and power that’s the problem for those ‘insane’ majorities.”
The majority demanded by their proposal is regardlessly large, by the same measure the States could call a constitutional convention, and yet even that has not happens.
2/3rd is absolutely insane, who ever set that limit must intend it never to happen.
To preserve our INDIVIDUAL rights the Constitution’s prohibitions cannot be subject to the arbitrary enforcement of even a majority or we are no more then a constitution-less democracy.
The majority will as it currently does in the lawless realm of self-bounded(unboned) government rob the rights of the minority to benefit itself.
No amendment to our constitution, that either invest in government the the enforcement power of the same constitution, or provides to the majority which control government the discretion of its enforcement will render that constitution to be worth anymore then the paper it is written upon.
If we are to protect the rights of the minority with any constitution of limited government, then that constitution must be enforceable by that minority.