[rockrr]

Congress does not have the ability to amend the constitution on its own by simple legislation and neither do the courts.

Roe v. Wade and Øbamacare would suggest otherwise...

[Rurudyne]

Ah, but arrogation and abrogation are two entirely separate things.

Arrogation, or acting apart from lawful Authority, is what the modern progressives have wrought.

They do, therefore they can, is essentially all they know about governance by constitutional means. They are creatures of Arbitrary government, everything we became a nation to avoid in the first place.

The federal government was not to be a Sovereign able to decide for itself by the ordinary means at its disposal what its powers are. It is a creature of the Law that authorizes it and nothing more. Or at least it should be nothing more.