Friday, November 13, 2009

U.S. Constitution - 28th Amendment

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28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
Congress shall honor and refrain from any legislation contrary to the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
10th Amendment - 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.
Examples of, but not limited to these, legislation contrary to the 10th and 28th Amendments would include:
  • Seizure of property, goods, and incarceration without due process or compensation including forced purchase of unwanted services or products or penalties and incarceration for failure to do so [House health care bill]
  • Declaration of a state of emergency and granting of extraordinary powers to the Federal government and its agencies based on theoretical and unproven possible harm caused by otherwise lawful activities [House climate bill]
Those who would argue that such actions are permissible do not do so on the basis of Constitutional powers, but a generic and amorphous application of the Interstate Commerce Clause. Somehow, a bit of legislation intended to ensure that consumers ... and states ... don't get shafted by predatory practices, gives the Federal government the authority to regulate what gets purchased, by whom, for how much, and what will be done to them if they don't pay for what they don't want.

Sounds like a good Mafia scheme or...
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
George Orwell, "1984", first sentence

The citizenry is getting angry and the Congress isn't listening.

2012 IS GETTING CLOSER

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