What Constitution – It’s 233 Years Old
May 13, 2010
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter; so help me God.”
Article VI, paragraph 3, U.S. Constitution states that all executive and judicial officers of the United States are bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support the Constitution. Accordingly, the Legislative Branch of the government adopted the aforementioned oath. Hence forth the people assume that anyone taking this oath of office clearly understands that the U.S. Constitution is fundamentally a rulebook for government. Its guiding principle is the idea that the “government” is a source of corruptive power and ultimate tyranny. Therefore, the Framers made the U.S. Constitution the “supreme law of the land” (see Article VI, paragraph 2, U.S. Constitution) not Congress.
After failure of the first Constitution, Articles of Confederation, the Framers created a government and intentionally assigned specific duties and responsibilities to the three branches of government. Article I covers the Legislative (Congress), responsible for making the law; Article II covers the Executive (President), responsible for enforcing the law; and Article III covers the Judicial (Supreme Court), responsible for interpreting the law. Due to the Framers’ fear of big government and to make sure there was no misunderstanding, the Framers delineated the specific duties of Congress in Article I, Section 8, paragraphs 1 thru 18. To further strengthen this ideal, the Framers included additional guidance for governing the nation in Amendments IX and X of the Bill of Rights. These Amendments established the following three principles; (1) None of the rights enumerated in the Constitution can be construed to deny others retained by the People; (2) the Federal Government can do nothing under the Constitution unless it is affirmatively authorized by some provision of the Constitution; and (3) the states can do anything under the Constitution unless they are expressly prohibited by some provision of the Constitution. There is no evidence in the Constitution or the Federalist Papers that those who wrote, adopted, and ratified the Constitution thought congressional power would extend to a mandatory requirement that citizens purchase specific goods and services as a condition of lawful residence in the United States as legislated in the Health Care Act or that citizens would have to purchase a Federal license for their home and obtain Federal government approval before selling their home as required in the Cap & Trade Act currently working its way through Congress.
Specifically in 2012, the Federal government will have direct access to your bank account for electronic transfer of funds for your insurance premiums. Further, beginning in 2014 citizens are required to maintain minimum essential health coverage or they will be required to pay a penalty. Congress has assigned enforcement of this provision to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The Health Care Bill is unconstitutional as it violates Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. Congress does not have the authority to force citizens to purchase goods or services due to their very existence. The Cap & Trade Act is unconstitutional as it violates the privacy provisions guaranteed by Amendment IV, Bill of Rights, U.S. Constitution. These Congressional actions makes it clear, once Congress begins to stretch its power beyond the limits of the Constitution, there is no limit to it and no security for We the People.
Contrary to what the Federal Government believes, man is responsible for this nation not government. However, man cannot be responsible for the way he lives his life unless he is free. Liberty, therefore, is a necessary corollary to Life and the Pursuit of Happiness. Implicit in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution is an underlying principle that the final arbiter of power is “We the People”.
As Thomas Jefferson stated: “In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
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