That is what I am worried about, Rohn. They vote their feelings all to often. It has nothing to do with their opinion. Is their job not to define what is constitutional and what is not?
I have never heard of anything that should have to be decided on the opinion or current feelings of a justice. If the Constitution doesn't say in the Articles in the Constitution that they have that power, they don't.
The powers of congress.
"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 Defence 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 an 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 Offences 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, dock-Yards, 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."
In my opinion, anything else other than this should be ruled unconstitutional. Nowhere here does it say they have the power to regulate arms, or the power to regulate the media. They don't have either of those powers, yet they exercise them both habitually.
My mom home-schooled me, and I appreciate it immensely. Many of the people in today's schools are unbelievably unprepared to teach. And the subject matter is no good. Is it not possible to teach something better than endless cycles of sports? How about you teach something that will help much more in life. Teach them the constitution. The bill of rights. Political history of the world. I will bet you not a single textbook teaches about the things that happened in Cambodia in 1971-74. You won't hear about that. It doesn't do any good for their agenda. And we need to fix that fact. This is an example now. Congress does not have the power to prescribe for the education of the population. That power is reserved to the states in the tenth amendment. But they still do it.
Sorry to steal your thread Sid. I can't help myself I guess
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