johnwk
02-04-2009, 06:41 PM
SEE: Obama signs SCHIP bill (http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/02/04/Obama_signs_SCHIP_bill/UPI-15071233776032/)
Hey Obama, what provision in our federal Constitution grants power to Congress to lay and collect taxes in Idaho, to fund the health care needs of children living in New York?
Tell us Mr. Obama, did you miss what is written in Federalist No. 45?
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.
The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.
How about what is written in the Tenth Amendment? Did you miss that too, Mr. Obama?
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.
And when you were allegedly teaching constitutional law, Mr. Obama, did you teach your students the SC did not know what it was talking about when rendering its opinion in MARBURY v. MADISON, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)?
The government of the United States is of the latter description. The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing; if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts pro- [5 U.S. 137, 177] hibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act.
Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it.
If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law: if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.
Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void.
Come now Mr. Obama, why do you want to make millions of people more dependent upon government for their subsistence with SCHIP, and oppose the proposed WAGE TAX HOLIDAY (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-143) for working people, which would free them from a slavish tax upon the property they have in their labor?
JWK
If we can make 51 percent of America’s population dependent upon a federal government check, we can then bribe them for their vote, keep ourselves in power and keep the remaining portion of America’s working population [Joe the American plumber] enslaved to pay the bills ____ Obama’s Marxist game plan, a plan to establish a federal plantation and redistribute the wages earned by labor.
Hey Obama, what provision in our federal Constitution grants power to Congress to lay and collect taxes in Idaho, to fund the health care needs of children living in New York?
Tell us Mr. Obama, did you miss what is written in Federalist No. 45?
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.
The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.
How about what is written in the Tenth Amendment? Did you miss that too, Mr. Obama?
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.
And when you were allegedly teaching constitutional law, Mr. Obama, did you teach your students the SC did not know what it was talking about when rendering its opinion in MARBURY v. MADISON, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)?
The government of the United States is of the latter description. The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing; if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts pro- [5 U.S. 137, 177] hibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act.
Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it.
If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law: if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.
Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void.
Come now Mr. Obama, why do you want to make millions of people more dependent upon government for their subsistence with SCHIP, and oppose the proposed WAGE TAX HOLIDAY (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-143) for working people, which would free them from a slavish tax upon the property they have in their labor?
JWK
If we can make 51 percent of America’s population dependent upon a federal government check, we can then bribe them for their vote, keep ourselves in power and keep the remaining portion of America’s working population [Joe the American plumber] enslaved to pay the bills ____ Obama’s Marxist game plan, a plan to establish a federal plantation and redistribute the wages earned by labor.