Posted on 03/12/2014 9:31:29 AM PDT by VetoTheFed
GIVE STATES VETO OVER ABUSIVE FEDERAL POWERS
PETITION CONGRESS TO PROPOSE THIS AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. IT WILL GIVE THE STATES A VETO ON OVERREACHING FEDERAL POWERS.
http://tinyurl.com/VetoTheFed
PETITION CONGRESS TO PROPOSE THIS AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. IT WILL GIVE THE STATES A VETO ON OVERREACHING FEDERAL POWERS.
http://tinyurl.com/VetoTheFed
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Enjoy he ride.
The states already have that. Its called the 10th ammendment.
" 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. "
That is what the Senate was for-— before it was given to the people.
So . . . you just signed up today and your screen name is "VetoTheFed." AND YOU TYPE IN ALL CAPS. You one of those Paulestinian "Jewish international bankers rule ze vorld" types?
Now, go ahead and join up with the Convention of States [fyi, already in-progress], and move the idea into reality.
That’s what the Senate was supposed to be for. Let’s just repeal the 17th Amendment.
Tenth Amendment:
“The powers not granted to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”
It’s time for states to assert their rights.
The 10th Amendment should suffice, what we NEED to do is impeach judges that overstep their judicial bounds in rulings..
Asking fed gov nicely to relenquish their ill gotten power and to get it back will not work....
We will have to Article V the thing down their throats from a state level...
In other words, the corrupt federal government has been able to get away with making laws that it has no constitutional authority to make because voters are clueless that the states have never delegated to the feds, via the Constitution the specific power to make such laws.
Amendments to the Constitution that I would support are a repeal of the 16th and 17th Amendments. I also strongly recommend adding new amendments based on the following.
As opposed to the PC idea of a balanced budget amendment, I would like to see an amendment which enumerates Justice John Marshall's official clarification of Congress's limited power to lay taxes.
“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.
The bottom line concerning such an amendment is this. If voters put an end to the tsunami of constitutionally indefensible federal taxes going to DC, then crook politicians would lose interest in getting themselves elected to Congress and the Oval Office in the first place.
I would also like to see an amendment which enumerates proposals for the long-proposed, long-ignored Enumerated Powers Act amended to the Constitution. Conservative congressmen have pushed this act to force Congress to police itself (yeah right) with respect to complying with its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
Such an amendment would require Congress to reference specific constitutional clauses in all laws that they make to prove constitutional authority to make the law in the first place.
In a perfect world, sure. The framers knew differently and designed a government that accounts for man's disposition to accumulate power.
That alone is enough to toss Obamacare into the trash if it were to be upheld.
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