A Constitutional Amendment Guaranteed To Rein In The Federal Loviathan

Discussion in 'Politics' started by AAAintheBeltway, Feb 10, 2010.

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    By Walter E. Williams in The American Spectator

    In Federalist Paper 45, James Madison, the father of our Constitution, explains, “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.” Other founders gave similar assurances about the limitations that the constitution set on the federal government. If our founders could see today’s federal government, it would be unrecognizable to their vision. In fact, their vision has been turned upon its head, so that the powers of the state governments are “few and defined” and those of the federal government “are numerous and indefinite........

    .....What can be done? To recover our liberty requires at the minimum putting Washington back to where it was from 1787 to 1920, when it spent only 3 percent of the GDP, except during times of war, as opposed to today’s more than 30 percent of GDP. A constitutional amendment limiting federal spending to, say, 10 percent of the GDP would be a good start.”
     
    #21     Feb 13, 2010
  2. Actually that problem of how you divvy up the assets was the reason that the North found the Civil War.

    No way were the northern bankers and industrialists who had invested millions in southern infrastructure, railroads, ports, mining operations were going to just let that go.

    Plus the Government needed the money. Cotton exports from the south generated a lot of money for the Feds.

    "I can't let them [the South] go. Who would pay for the government?" - Abraham Lincoln, 1861
     
    #22     Feb 13, 2010
  3. +1
     
    #23     Feb 13, 2010
  4. WE simply must bring back nullification: in cases where the imperial federal govt violates the Constitution.

    It's the only way to get our country back.
     
    #24     Feb 13, 2010