Posted on 01/07/2016 1:49:08 PM PST by detective
Better read the First Amendment again. It begins, “Congress shall make no law...”
The first ten amendments were ratified because the anti-federalists were afraid more of the new constitutional central government than they were of the weak continental government. These amendments, as is almost all of the Constitution, are pointed directly at the feds, not the states. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments confirm this.
There are certain restrictions on the states spelled out in Article I, Section 10, like not coining money or making foreign treaties, and there is a requirement that all states have a republican-type government (Art IV, Section 4) to assuage the fears you spoke about.
But it was then and is now the feds who are the greatest threat to our God-given individual freedoms. Read post#58. The unconstitutional feds, not the states, are by far the greatest threat to our country, our way of life and our freedoms.
The incorporation doctrine is a fraud and not to be followed.
Please read post #’s 48, 58, 60, & 61.
The regime-imposed starvation, summary executions, and other hardships are a-ok with the same people.
The exception, even in a literal reading, is the strongest statement in the Bill of Rights: "A well regulated militia being necessary to a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
This is clearly an absolute that goes beyond restricting Congress or even the entire federal government. Regardless of how you read the incorporation clause, this clearly restricts all branches of government at all levels.
An accurate reading of the Constitution, just like reading any law, requires a good-faith effort to interpret it as written and originally understood and intended. When it comes to the Constitution our own personal opinions, aside from that good-faith effort, don’t really count for much.
It is clearly documented and long settled that the original intent of the first ten amendments were aimed at the feds. The crisis of state ratification of the Constitution in 1787 hung in the balance and came down to anti-federalists demanding a list of rights that the feds were prohibited from violating. Madison, who wrote the amendments, writes extensively about this. The amendments were simply NEVER intended to be aimed at the states, but at the feds. Else why the need for the subsequent perversity called “the Incorporation Doctrine” related to the 14th Amendment?
BTW, the first ten amendments are not really a “Bill of Rights”. They are a sampling of rights the anti-federalists wanted written down because they were worried that individual rights and freedoms presumed in the Constitution would not be honored by the new potentially powerful central government. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments confirm this. The anti-federalists were certainly not wrong about their concerns.
So my state’s slavery laws are still ok, then...good.
Nope, state slavery is expressly unconstitutional (13A). So are states coining money and making foreign treaties (Art I, Sec 9). So is a non-republican form of state government (Art III, Sec 4). There are certain, limited constrains on the states. But by-and-large, the Constitution creates and constrains the feds.
GET TO KNOW YOUR CONSTITUTION. It is YOUR ticket to political freedom that the feds have stolen from you.
You should know your supreme court decisions. Besides, it doesn’t matter what I think.
SCOTUS is SUBJECT to the Constitution. Unlike what so many think, the Constitution did NOT set up SCOTUS as an unelected oligarchy to unilaterally pass national law.
The Constitution BELONGS to you. If you don’t want it, then Ben Franklin was talking to you when he answered the question “Well, Doctor, what have we got-a Republic or a Monarchy?” coming out of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 with, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
The Ninth and Tenth Amendments make it very clear that the states and the people have EVERYTHING to say outside the Constitution. So knowing and understanding the Constitution is of course in the best interests of the states and the people and they have every right to find for themselves whether a federal act is constitutional and act accordingly.
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