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Do We Live in a Free Country?

Do we live in a free country?

  • Yes

    Votes: 36 42.4%
  • Nope

    Votes: 32 37.6%
  • Other

    Votes: 17 20.0%

  • Total voters
    85
Who says Congress can't extend presidential authority? The 10th Amendment clearly gives all powers not inherently given to the federal government, to the states and the people. The Senate represents the states and the House represents the people. if the states and people decide, through their representatives, to extend presidential authority, there's nothing in the Constitution that prevents it.

Just like there's nothing preventing Congress from legislating the CDC, FDA, FCC, BLM, FBI, or any of the other dozens or hundreds of federal agencies that have been created since the formation of the country.

An example of this is federal land.
During the whole Bundy fiasco you had a lot of people demanding that the federal government give Nevada all that land that's under federal control. What they seemed not to realize is that Nevada didn't want that to maintain that land. They had the right to it when the land was purchased from Mexico and the state borders were drawn, but the state chose to yield that claim to the federal government. And it thus fell under the jurisdiction of the branches of the federal government.


"The Senate represents the states and the House represents the people." are part of the federal government. They can't give power to themselves beyond what the Constitution delegates.
THAT is what the 10th amendment says.
And the senate hasn't represented the state governments since 1913. From the beginning, senators were elected by state legislatures to represent state government.
"With a campaign for a state-led constitutional amendment gaining strength, and a fear that this could result in a "runaway convention", the proposal to mandate direct elections for the Senate was finally introduced in the Congress. It was passed by the Congress and, on May 13, 1912, was submitted to the states for ratification. By April 8, 1913, three-fourths of the states had ratified the proposed amendment, making it the Seventeenth Amendment. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan formally declared the amendment's adoption on May 31, 1913."
And a big chunk of our liberty went down the toilet. Ever after senators don't serve their legislatures. They do what they please. They went from servant to status of princes over us.
 
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