The Conservative Constitutionalist

Okay, it’s official. I’m pissed and my head is about to explode!  Congress has once again said ” To hell with the Constitution.”

This article is yet another example of Congress exceeding their constitutional authority.

Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States of America reads:

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 Offences 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.

The 10th Amendment to the Constitution states:

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.

Could someone please point out to me exactly where there is anything in that about what kind of light bulb I can use? (I know, they didn’t have light bulbs in 1787) so where does it say that Congress can tell me how to light my home, or what kind of mileage my vehicle can get. (Yeah, it has a hemi and the mileage sucks thank you.) But you know what? It’s MY truck! It’s MY business and mine alone whether the mileage sucks or not. (Well, now that I’ve shared it with you, I guess it’s your business too.) But it still is not any of Congress’, or President Bush’s.

When are we, as a nation, going to stand up and yell, “HEY CONGRESS, THIS IS BULLSHIT!!” When are we going to quit rolling over like a bunch of candy-assed pansies and stand up for ourselves? I am so damned sick of this blatant disregard for our Constitution that I could puke.

Did I miss the amendment that says “Congress shall have the power to do anything it wants at any time”?

Wake up people! Congress OWNS you and as long as we keep electing the liberal Republicans and Democrats things will NEVER change.

It’s time to fight back!!

Filed under: General Political Issues, Congress, U.S. Constitution