Is the Tenth Amendment about to Save America?
The tenth amendment to the American Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, could well be the most elegant and powerful sentence ever written and published. Even though this brief sentence is so elegant and powerful, it can be read in in all of acouple seconds. Here it comes: "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."
Why are Obama and all of his starry eyed zombies so scared of the tenth amendment - and strong supporters of the tenth amendment like Rick Perry? How can an incredibly straight forward sentence strike jolts of apprehension into national political figures, bureaucrats plus the armies of government personnel that do their bidding? Might there be a buried significance in that rather simple sentence drafted over 200 years ago?
To appreciate the strength of the tenth amendment it's a must to appreciate the central ideas of America's founders. Their principal purpose in founding America was to create a totally free modern society that could not be put under the thumb of a threatening central government. A contemporary society that could in no way suffer the tyranny and haphazard dictates over personal liberties which were suffered by the colonists beneath the rule of the British king an ocean away.
Second, the tenth amendment elegantly sums up the founder's overall purpose in producing the American system of government. They tailored America's framework of constraints to properly commit power among many different branches of government, so no one element could become a gigantic crushing busybody creature, exerting unwarranted influence over individual liberties. Over again, the whole American system was designed to prevent what the English monarchs had done to the colonists by interfering in their daily lives from afar.
Finally, and maybe most significantly, the tenth amendment, in one phrase, obviously signifies that the founding fathers meant for almost all of government power to be at the state level, as close to the people as possible.
Why did the founding fathers set much of the power as close to the people as possible? Simple. The founders learned from hard experience that far-away rulers that are managing immense chunks of the citizenry, all with numerous desires and needs, are not likely to take an interest in representing any one individual. As a result the founders wanted to ensure that almost all of the policies and decisions taken by government were performed at the local level - where you have a chance of affecting things. Local political figures, being beholden to you for his or her careers, tend to be more prone to be sensitive than that far off national politician or bureaucrat.
Sorry to say, in the last few decades, the courts have hacked away at the defenses the tenth amendment expressly afforded you and me safeguards against expanding central government. All of us now have a government in DC which has become so huge, costly and invasive it threatens to topple the entire nation.
Don't give up hope, though. There are solid indicators that America may well be turning back in the direction of its Constitutional origins, acknowledging that the federal government has expanded to the point where it's unmanageable and reinstating the liberties and prosperity our founding fathers wished us to have. November, 2012 is definitely the most critical election since the founding of America!
Why are Obama and all of his starry eyed zombies so scared of the tenth amendment - and strong supporters of the tenth amendment like Rick Perry? How can an incredibly straight forward sentence strike jolts of apprehension into national political figures, bureaucrats plus the armies of government personnel that do their bidding? Might there be a buried significance in that rather simple sentence drafted over 200 years ago?
To appreciate the strength of the tenth amendment it's a must to appreciate the central ideas of America's founders. Their principal purpose in founding America was to create a totally free modern society that could not be put under the thumb of a threatening central government. A contemporary society that could in no way suffer the tyranny and haphazard dictates over personal liberties which were suffered by the colonists beneath the rule of the British king an ocean away.
Second, the tenth amendment elegantly sums up the founder's overall purpose in producing the American system of government. They tailored America's framework of constraints to properly commit power among many different branches of government, so no one element could become a gigantic crushing busybody creature, exerting unwarranted influence over individual liberties. Over again, the whole American system was designed to prevent what the English monarchs had done to the colonists by interfering in their daily lives from afar.
Finally, and maybe most significantly, the tenth amendment, in one phrase, obviously signifies that the founding fathers meant for almost all of government power to be at the state level, as close to the people as possible.
Why did the founding fathers set much of the power as close to the people as possible? Simple. The founders learned from hard experience that far-away rulers that are managing immense chunks of the citizenry, all with numerous desires and needs, are not likely to take an interest in representing any one individual. As a result the founders wanted to ensure that almost all of the policies and decisions taken by government were performed at the local level - where you have a chance of affecting things. Local political figures, being beholden to you for his or her careers, tend to be more prone to be sensitive than that far off national politician or bureaucrat.
Sorry to say, in the last few decades, the courts have hacked away at the defenses the tenth amendment expressly afforded you and me safeguards against expanding central government. All of us now have a government in DC which has become so huge, costly and invasive it threatens to topple the entire nation.
Don't give up hope, though. There are solid indicators that America may well be turning back in the direction of its Constitutional origins, acknowledging that the federal government has expanded to the point where it's unmanageable and reinstating the liberties and prosperity our founding fathers wished us to have. November, 2012 is definitely the most critical election since the founding of America!
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Barack Obama can't run on his record, and his zombies cower in fear when they hear the name Rick Perry so they spew their made-up talking points about this supporter of the tenth amendment. Learn the truth about Rick Perry and help save America in 2012.