Attack On Our Constitution
Today I’m using exerpts from the Patriot Post newsletter dated October 29, authored by Mark Alexander, Publisher. He says things so well:
*Beginning of quote: The protagonist of this Leftist regime is, of course, Barack Hussein Obama, who promised his constituents, “This is our moment, this is our time to turn the page on the policies of the past, to offer a new direction. We are fundamentally transforming the United States of America. And generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was our time” [emphasis added].
However, if we are a nation of laws with a national government limited by our Constitution, and, indeed, we are, then Obama has no legal authority to “transform” our government.
Concerning the legislature’s authority, Thomas Jefferson asserted: “[G]iving [Congress] a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole [Constitution] to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. Certainly, no such universal power was meant to be given them. [The Constitution] was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect.”
Madison added, “If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.”
In every successive Congress since 1995, conservative Arizona Republican Rep. John Shadegg has sponsored the Enumerated Powers Act (HR 1359), which requires that “Each Act of Congress shall contain a concise and definite statement of the constitutional authority relied upon for the enactment of each portion of that Act.”
The measure continues to fail, however, because of a dirty little secret: There is no legitimate constitutional authority for almost 70 percent of current federal government programs, and, thus, no authority for the collection of taxes to fund such activities.
Put simply, there is no authority for a “constitutional rewrite” by Barack Hussein Obama, nor Nancy Pelosi, nor Steny Hoyer, nor any like-minded revisionists. Such contempt for our Constitution, such willful violation of their sacred oaths is a disgrace to the selfless dignity of generations of Patriots before them. *End of quote
May God save us all … and may we each take up the “save the constitution” banner.
On this day in history: 1918 – Ottoman Empire signs treaty with Allies; 1938 – Orson Welles frightens the nation with the broadcast of “War of the Worlds”
On a positive note: Abby Miller, 12-years-old, sat in front of Union Station in Washington, D.C. this past Columbus Day holiday with a couple of her friends, singing songs and strumming a guitar, to benefit her 4-year-old friend, Taylor Love, who has neuromablastoma cancer. Passers-by seemed to notice the girl’s singing talent, stopping to listen in the chilly weather, with a few putting money in a bucket at Abby’s feet. If you’re there and you see them, put a whole lot o’ buckeroos in the guitar box. Good on you, Abby! For more, go here: http://news.aol.com/philanthropy/article/abby-miller-fights-friends-cancer/715995
Blessings.