Today's excerpt begins on page 28.
The United States Constitution is a Contract between the Federal government and the States of the Union.
Its fundamental and guiding principle is the idea that the State is always a potential source of corruptive power and ultimate tyranny.
Originally the Federal government’s responsibilities were confined to a few enumerated powers, involving mainly national security and public safety.
In the realm of domestic affairs, the Founders sought to guarantee that federal interference in the daily lives of citizens would be strictly limited.
They also wanted to make sure government would have a minimal role in the domestic economy and that it would be financed and delivered at the state and local levels, not by an evil and pestilential Central Banking System, as is the Federal Reserve Bank, Inc.
In Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, the enumerated powers of the federal government to spend money are defined.
These powers include the right to “establish Post Offices and post roads; raise and support Armies; provide and maintain a Navy; declare War...” and to conduct a few other activities related mostly to national defense.
No matter how long one may search, it is impossible to find in the Constitution any language that authorizes at least ninety percent of the civilian programs that Congress crams into the federal budget everyday.
The federal government has no authority to pay money to farmers, run the health care industry; impose wage and price controls, give welfare to the poor and unemployed.
They have no authority to provide job training, subsidize electricity and telephone service, lend money to businesses and foreign governments, or build parking garages, tennis courts, and swimming pools.
But they do.
The Founders did not create a Department of Commerce, a Department of Education, or a Department of Housing and Urban Development.
This was no oversight: they did not believe that government was authorized to establish such agencies.
They were correct; Congress is forbidden by the Constitution to establish any such agencies.
The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution states clearly and unambiguously:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution ... are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
In other words, if the Constitution doesn’t specifically permit the federal government to do something, then it doesn’t have the right to do it.
May God have mercy on your soul for bankrupting and enslaving our people.
This series of posts will insure that these free thinkers' works live on in living memory.
If only a few.
There is a reason these books are not taught in the modern skools.
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