When asked last fall where the Constitution authorizes Congress to require citizens to buy health insurance, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was temporarily caught off guard, finally sputtering, “Are you serious? Are you serious?” She then quickly turned to another reporter without further comment.
Another Democrat, Rep. Phil Hare of Illinois, reacted similarly when recently posed that question by one of his constituents: “I don’t really worry about the Constitution on this, to be honest.”
While the thought that the Constitution actually limits the power of Congress to enact legislation may be foreign to some Democrats, the framers of the Constitution intended for the federal government to be limited to the powers that are specifically enumerated, or listed, in the text of the document.
In the Federalist Papers, James Madison wrote: “[T]he proposed Government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to the several States a residuary and inviolable sovereignty over all other objects.”
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April 28, 2010 at 6:20 am
mrje
They have no intentions of following our Constitution.
I predict they will take bold actions in coming months, to cultivate a voter base, who have no idea what a Constitution means.
We can blame BO & CO for the future upheavals in the west and southwest.
They are promising illegal aliens, that if they join a union, they will receive the full rights as an American. There is going to be a gigantic mad, dash to reach our border’s, like we have never seen before.
All BO & CO will need is to get them to sign up for card check to change the face of private enterprise.
Then boom, we all know who they will support in elections.
We are being taken over from the inside out.
April 28, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Interested Bystander
mrje,
I agree with you.
Obama said that a man couldn’t take his kid for ice cream without the threat of being pulled over and asked for papers.
A BIG LIE.
The law clearly states they ahve to have probable cause to ask for proof of citizenship, so unless the person isn’t breaking another law, the police can NOT ask for “papers”.
And wasn’t it Stothes who was commenting about how one was more patriotic than the other? Well Stothes, this past week is a PERFECT example of the difference between “right wing” rallys, and “left wing” rallys.
Did YOU notice a difference?
April 29, 2010 at 5:53 am
mrje
Left winger’s have only one way of protesting and commenting on blogs.
It is always obvious when one of them enter either arena.