Shocker! People still want the 10th Amendment!
By JR Hoeft | Monday, September 7th, 2009 | PolicyWhether it’s cap-and-tax, employee “free choice”, nationalizing healthcare, creating union ownership of GM, or conducting a money-grab of the banking industry, it is clear that our liberal Federal government is taking unprecedented steps at infringing upon the sovereignty of states and completely ignoring the 10th amendment.
According to our Constitution…yea, that thing that’s frequently ignored…Amendment X says:
“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.”
Irony of ironies, despite the actions of our noble leaders in Congress, a new poll things our Federal government should stuff it.
A majority of voters indicated that the federal government is overreaching – with 54 percent of voters saying the federal government is doing too much. This is a clear reversal in public opinion and in stark contrast to the 51 percent saying the government should do more in February of this year. By a substantial margin – 69 percent to 21 percent – voters would like their state government to take the lead in policy-making. On the issue of health care, 72 percent favored the health care reforms that are being implemented on the state level and prefer the state-level approaches over the proposed federal health care solutions by a substantial margin to the Obama health care proposal.
Read more about this poll concluded Sept. 1 at the Republican State Leadership Committee.
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3 Responses to "Shocker! People still want the 10th Amendment!"
I don’t believe they are ignore Article X. They are just following Article I Section 8 more than Article 10. In case you haven’t read it, I posted it below.
The United States Constitution:
Amendment 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; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;–And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
The public, as a whole, doesn’t give a (*#@ about the 10th Amendment. However, it’s invoked whenever the Federal gov’t is doing something the speaker doesn’t like, when he/she thinks there would be a result better to his/her liking coming from the statehouse. There’s the occasional genuine argument about it, but it’s pretty rare.
Gee, William. I really see health care, cap-and-tax, EFCA, etc. as falling under Article I Section 8.
Whatever. You missed my point completely.
And, despite the condescension seething from your comment, I will gladly attest to having read that Article many times.
By the way, it’s “ignoring”, not “ignore”. And Amendment X, not Article 10.
You may want to proof-read your comment or use our handy editing tool.
MB – as Virginians, we have a natural affinity for the 10th amendment.
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