1. Article 1, section 8
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States"
Amendment X: "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."
But it 'is' delegated to the United States by the Constitution.
[QUOTE="legal-dictionary-com"]United States v. Butler, 56 S. Ct. 312, 297 U.S. 1, 80 L. Ed. 477 (1936),
"The U.S. Supreme Court invalidated a federal agricultural spending program because a specific congressional power over agricultural production appeared nowhere in the Constitution. According to the Court in Butler, the spending program invaded a right reserved to the states by the Tenth Amendment.
Though the Court decided that Butler was consistent with Madison's philosophy of limited federal government, it adopted Hamilton's interpretation of the General Welfare Clause, which gave Congress broad powers to spend federal money.It also established that determination of the general welfare would be left to the discretion of Congress..."
Congress appropriates money for a seemingly endless number of national interests, ranging from federal courts, policing, imprisonment, and national security to social programs, environmental protection, and education. No federal court has struck down a spending program on the ground that it failed to promote the general welfare. However, federal spending programs have been struck down on other constitutional grounds. -http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/General+Welfare
Inconsistancy
2. The constitution was written some time ago, by fallible men, and some we'd consider immoral by a modern standard.
3. Any insinuation that we should 'not' have a public education system is pure idiocy.
4. When citing law, you should consider quoting it.Â
It doesn't give broad powers. It gives them power to spend collected taxes to pay for everyones welfare(.) Not just a certain type of people. How is it honest to determine that the word general means broad welfare when welfare is specifically enough not to die?
Also the enforcers of our law is the Judaical not Congress. Except it got messed up that way too. Congress can't determine what our law means (it doesn't have that power), Chief Justice John Marshall made sure that the Judiciary would with his decipher of Article 3 section 2. He argued that the Supreme Court can decipher what our law means. That's good for you and bad for me. Because how am I to cite law when the thought is the Supreme Court is the end all be all of authority?
No federal court has struck down a spendingprogram because of the Federalist John Marshall and of the obvious reason spending from collection of taxes. Isn't the time of your cite interesting? It was in the age of the progressive era. The depression was government's incentive to assume a lot of authority. Supreme Court rulings in general are entertaining.
2. Our Constitution was written for us to control our government, but our government uses it to control us, with the help of ignorance.Â
3. People aren't stupid they just don't know the reason of a constitution. Many of them say our country is a democracy or thinking that they are precise a democracy republic. First a democracy is a type of government and a republic is another. How do they come to this conclusion? The part of democracy in our republic is the election of officials. Their purpose is to follow our LAW. That part is politically left out. They dictate our freedom.
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