WHO CARES?

The 10th Amendment says: "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."

I have read this amendment hundreds of times looking for some ambiguity in it. There is none.

It is important to note that the Tenth Amendment was not part of the body of the Constitution, but was added to ensure that the power of the federal government did not impose on the rights of the citizens, under the theory that "the closer to home one gets, the more power over their own affairs they should have."

It was based on this from the Articles of Confederation: "Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled."

The Tenth Amendment was designed, as were all of the amendments, to change something, to add something or to clarify something in the body of the Constitution. A simple explanation of it can be found HERE.

Over the years, Congress, in their ever-growing thirst for control, have used Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution SEEN HERE, known as the Commerce Clause, which states that Congress has the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the states, and with the Indian tribes, to overcome the restrictions of the Tenth Amendment.

In each case, Congress was wrong to have done so, Supreme Court rulings otherwise notwithstanding.

(Note: The Supreme Court has been wrong on several occasions and its decisions have been subsequently reversed. Two examples of rulings that need to be revisited are: the Supreme Court upheld the Fair Labor Standards Act which regulated the production of goods shipped across state lines [1941] and Wickard v. Filburn, [1942] in which the Court upheld the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which sought to stabilize wide fluctuations in the market price for wheat by stabilizing supply through quotas. Others include: public housing, gun control, voter registration, education, and marriage)

The end result of power grasped by the federal government as they circumvent the Tenth Amendment, is legislation on a myriad of things that should NEVER have become federal issues.

My previous post (ANOTHER BITE OUT OF FREEDOM) is an example.

So is the health care legislation recently signed into law.

The overriding issue is the lack of respect for the original document that is the Constitution of the United States of America.

Although members of Congress and President BO swore an oath to defend and protect it, they clearly do not agree with it, nor do they respect it as a rule book for the federal government.

"Oh, Joe, you're so reactionary! Nobody in Congress has disdain for the Constitution! They all respect and care about it!"

Oh, yeah?

Check this out (h/t to Gateway Pundit):



So look, don't try to talk to me about Congress' respect for the Constitution.

In their minds, they control the Constitution and it says what they say it says, not what it actually says.

They don't care about it, liberals don't care about it and if they say they do, watch out for them...they'll lie to you about other things, too.

Apology: Sorry about the deletions. I thought I was deleting one comment and they all disappeared! Argh!!! I don't even know how to do a mass deletion...but I guess I do now, only I can't remember what I did.