Comments on: Congressman Jim Marshall (D-GA) promises Medicare cuts “won’t happen,” gets called out by voters http://theconstitutionalalamo.com/2009/10/04/congressman-jim-marshall-d-ga-promises-medicare-cuts-wont-happen-gets-called-out-by-voters/ Holding out to defend the Republic... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:48:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: publius772000 http://theconstitutionalalamo.com/2009/10/04/congressman-jim-marshall-d-ga-promises-medicare-cuts-wont-happen-gets-called-out-by-voters/#comment-817 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:38:41 +0000 http://theconstitutionalalamo.com/?p=872#comment-817 Speak for yourself… it is my job to teach U.S. history and government to high school students. They learn of the intents of the Constitution, the depletion of state sovereignty through mechanisms such as the 17th Amendment, and the mess they are inheriting from their predecessors. My charge to them on a yearly basis is to take the reins of government, to become active, and to be the catalyst in a return to a true constitutional government as the Founding Fathers envisioned. The word is getting out, and conservatives cannot be blamed to the extent you propose for the culture of liberalism in the schools that we have received. All we can do is reach those we can and do everything in our power to stem the tide.

]]> By: B. Johnson http://theconstitutionalalamo.com/2009/10/04/congressman-jim-marshall-d-ga-promises-medicare-cuts-wont-happen-gets-called-out-by-voters/#comment-815 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:52:05 +0000 http://theconstitutionalalamo.com/?p=872#comment-815 Although Constitution-ignoring Jim Marshall is a part of the problem in DC, conservative voters have unthinkingly contributed to the federal government mess too. Please consider the following.

The main problem with constitutionally unauthorized Obamacare, for example, is actually not the Oval Office and Congress, IMO, but the people. More specifically, US citizens, including conservatives, have evidently not been teaching the Constitution and its history to their children for many generations, particularly the constitutionally enumerated principle of state sovereignty. Consequently, the people do not understand that since the federal Constitution is silent about programs like Obamacare and the Stimulus Package, the 10th A. automatically reserves government power to regulate and lay taxes for such things to the states, not the Oval Office and Congress.

In fact, Chief Justice Marshall had established the following case precedent, now wrongly ignored, which appropriately limits the power of the feds to lay taxes.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” –Chief Justice Marshall, GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824) http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html

So not only is misguided Obama’s proposed healthcare constitutionally unauthorized, but based on Justice Marshall’s official words, the corrupt Congress never had the power to lay taxes to fund such programs in the first place.

What’s going on, IMO, is that state sovereignty-ignorant voters have been electing lawmakers to both the state legislatures and the federal senate who are as state sovereignty-impaired as the voters are. Consequently, these lawmakers have not been doing their jobs to protect state sovereignty by protecting citizens from illegal federal taxes and unconstitutional federal government interference in their lives as evidenced by Obamacare.

Finally, the following link should help give people an idea how state sovereignty-ignorant voters have shot themselves in the foot with big, corrupt federal government as a consequence of the ill-conceived, anti-state sovereignty 16th and 17th Amendments.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=199792

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