johnwk
10-06-2010, 02:25 PM
HERE IS A LIST (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2001-145)of Republican House members who voted for the No Child Left Behind Act. Shouldn’t these Republicans be prepared to explain what part of the federal Constitution grants power to Congress to tax for spend on and regulate public school systems created under State Constitutions? I would love to see a 10th Amendment rally and these Republicans who voted for the NCLBA called out during the rally and asked to explain themselves .
Please note that while DeMint voted against such tyranny, John Boehner and John Thune [leaders in the Republican Party] voted for the tyranny and the trashing of our Constitution’s Tenth Amendment!
But let us look at the facts.
The People of Maryland delegated the power for a state funded and regulated educational system to their state elected officials, and not to the Congress of the United States sitting in Washington --- the wording being as follows:
“The General Assembly, at its First Session after the adoption of this Constitution, shall by Law establish throughout the State a thorough and efficient System of Free Public Schools; and shall provide by taxation, or otherwise, for their maintenance.”
The Maryland Constitutional also states, in emphatic terms: “the People of this State have the sole and exclusive right of regulating the internal government and police thereof, as a free, sovereign and independent State.”
And under Art. 3 of Maryland’s Declaration of Rights the command is for local regulation and funding of education as opposed to a federally funded and regulated public school system.
The wording being : “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution thereof, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people thereof.”
This very provision of Maryland’s Declaration of Rights is also agreed to by the People of the United States by their ratification of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States!
So where does John Boehner and John Thune [leaders in the Republican Party] get the authority to tax the people of the various united States $120 BILLION to fund the federal Department of Education, which is then used by our progressive domestic enemies to control and brainwash the minds of our nation’s school aged children?
I believe a Tenth Amendment rally is in order to publicly call out those RINO’s in Congress who have infested the Republican Party and have them defend their trashing of our Constitution.
The simple truth is, after creating our federal Constitution which became effective in 1789, ten amendments were quickly adopted [1791] which were intentionally designed “to prevent misconstruction or abuse of “ the new government’s “powers“, and is so stated in the Resolution of the First Congress Submitting Twelve Amendments to the Constitution; March 4, 1789 (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/resolu02.asp)
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added .
And let us not forget that Madison specifically informs us that the adoption of the first ten amendments to our Constitution was in “ support to the cause of Federalism”:
“It cannot be a secret to the gentlemen in this House, that, notwithstanding the ratification of this system of Government by eleven of the thirteen United States, in some cases unanimously, in others by large majorities; yet still there is a great number of our constituents who are dissatisfied with it; among whom are many respectable for their talents and patriotism, and respectable for the jealousy they have for their liberty, which, though mistaken in its object, is laudable in its motive. There is a great body of the people falling under this description, who at present feel much inclined to join their support to the cause of Federalism” ___See :Madison, June 8th, 1789, Amendments to the Constitution (http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=001/llac001.db&recNum=226)
JWK
"The Constitution is the act of the people, speaking in their original character, and defining the permanent conditions of the social alliance; and there can be no doubt on the point with us, that every act of the legislative power contrary to the true intent and meaning of the Constitution, is absolutely null and void. ___ Chancellor James Kent, in his Commentaries on American Law (1858)
Please note that while DeMint voted against such tyranny, John Boehner and John Thune [leaders in the Republican Party] voted for the tyranny and the trashing of our Constitution’s Tenth Amendment!
But let us look at the facts.
The People of Maryland delegated the power for a state funded and regulated educational system to their state elected officials, and not to the Congress of the United States sitting in Washington --- the wording being as follows:
“The General Assembly, at its First Session after the adoption of this Constitution, shall by Law establish throughout the State a thorough and efficient System of Free Public Schools; and shall provide by taxation, or otherwise, for their maintenance.”
The Maryland Constitutional also states, in emphatic terms: “the People of this State have the sole and exclusive right of regulating the internal government and police thereof, as a free, sovereign and independent State.”
And under Art. 3 of Maryland’s Declaration of Rights the command is for local regulation and funding of education as opposed to a federally funded and regulated public school system.
The wording being : “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution thereof, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people thereof.”
This very provision of Maryland’s Declaration of Rights is also agreed to by the People of the United States by their ratification of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States!
So where does John Boehner and John Thune [leaders in the Republican Party] get the authority to tax the people of the various united States $120 BILLION to fund the federal Department of Education, which is then used by our progressive domestic enemies to control and brainwash the minds of our nation’s school aged children?
I believe a Tenth Amendment rally is in order to publicly call out those RINO’s in Congress who have infested the Republican Party and have them defend their trashing of our Constitution.
The simple truth is, after creating our federal Constitution which became effective in 1789, ten amendments were quickly adopted [1791] which were intentionally designed “to prevent misconstruction or abuse of “ the new government’s “powers“, and is so stated in the Resolution of the First Congress Submitting Twelve Amendments to the Constitution; March 4, 1789 (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/resolu02.asp)
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added .
And let us not forget that Madison specifically informs us that the adoption of the first ten amendments to our Constitution was in “ support to the cause of Federalism”:
“It cannot be a secret to the gentlemen in this House, that, notwithstanding the ratification of this system of Government by eleven of the thirteen United States, in some cases unanimously, in others by large majorities; yet still there is a great number of our constituents who are dissatisfied with it; among whom are many respectable for their talents and patriotism, and respectable for the jealousy they have for their liberty, which, though mistaken in its object, is laudable in its motive. There is a great body of the people falling under this description, who at present feel much inclined to join their support to the cause of Federalism” ___See :Madison, June 8th, 1789, Amendments to the Constitution (http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=001/llac001.db&recNum=226)
JWK
"The Constitution is the act of the people, speaking in their original character, and defining the permanent conditions of the social alliance; and there can be no doubt on the point with us, that every act of the legislative power contrary to the true intent and meaning of the Constitution, is absolutely null and void. ___ Chancellor James Kent, in his Commentaries on American Law (1858)