aquapub
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There is no power of Congress to sell health insurance to the people of the United States, nor is there a power to dictate to the people of the United States that they must have health insurance. HR3200 does both of these things. Selling health insurance is neither necessary nor proper for the carrying into execution any of the enumerated powers. The Tenth Amendment reserves all other powers to the states and to the people; because the power of the Congress to sell health insurance is not found within the body of the Constitution, the Tenth Amendment operates to preclude that activity by the Congress.The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Ummm....no.All powers not directly given to the Federal goverment shall be given to the States and people. Hence the people are represented by the Congress thus they have a right to act outside the limited authority they were given.
All powers not directly given to the Federal goverment shall be given to the States and people. Hence the people are represented by the Congress thus they have a right to act outside the limited authority they were given.
If that were true why have a constitution at all?
I mean it would be self contradicting if that's what it means.
Nothing about the constitution is holy, thats the way the founders made it. Amendments can basically change the constitution at will.
The constitution created a starting point a frame, by which we build and are improving our house. It is not a document that is above being changed. Thus all powers not directly given to the Federal goverment must go through the agreement of the majority of the Peoples and State representative, and the Executive Branch.
The Constitution can be changed--by the process of Amendment.Nothing about the constitution is holy, thats the way the founders made it. Amendments can basically change the constitution at will.
The constitution created a starting point a frame, by which we build and are improving our house. It is not a document that is above being changed. Thus all powers not directly given to the Federal goverment must go through the agreement of the majority of the Peoples and State representative, and the Executive Branch.
The Constitution can be changed--by the process of Amendment.
Absent a change via an Amendment, the Constitution is as it is written--neither more nor less.
Everything does not violate the 10th Amendment.Everything violates the 10th amendment, so there is no point in complaining too much about the newest violation...
Article linked in OP said:Opponents of the Constitution (liberals)...
Nothing about the constitution is holy, thats the way the founders made it. Amendments can basically change the constitution at will.
Everything violates the 10th amendment, so there is no point in complaining too much about the newest violation...
Appears? There's no doubt he's a partisan hack.I'd say the author appears to be a partisan hack.
Nothing about the constitution is holy, thats the way the founders made it. Amendments can basically change the constitution at will.
The constitution created a starting point a frame, by which we build and are improving our house. It is not a document that is above being changed. Thus all powers not directly given to the Federal goverment must go through the agreement of the majority of the Peoples and State representative, and the Executive Branch.