Few Americans realize that up until 1937 the Congress of the United States conducted its business within the boundaries of seventeen enumerated powers granted under Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution. The enumerated powers did not come under attack until Franklin Roosevelt's new deal. The court decided ten major cases or groups of cases involving new deal statutes. Eight were ruled unconstitional Roosevelt stated, -
"We have therefore, reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself." (March 9, 1937)
One of the members of that court, later said in effect: "We voted against the Constitution, on the two held Constitutional, to save the Court." This references Roosevelt's threat to pack the Court.
George Washington warned, -
"Let there be no change in the Constitution by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed."
If the framers of our Constitution intended the powers of Congress to have no boundaries, why did they bother to enumerate seventeen ? There exists a process in which the Constitution can be amended, It is unlikely that the framers intended changes to be made by the Congress or the Court, acting without the consent of the States or the People.
Joel
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4 comments:
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Joel -
Congress, being re-elected regularly, must be doing the business of the people. If they weren't, people would rise up and elect leaders that would conduct the peoples' business more to the majority's liking.
The fact is most people are not interested in living in an America where the government is the same as it was in 1789.
The framers were not gods, but men just as we are. They were not endowed with such omnipotence that they could forsee every challenge or situation that the US finds itself in...that's why they created a document that its brilliance is in its ability to keep up with modern sensibilities.
The framers of our Constitution did not realize that We The People would elect a bunch of morons to the Executive and Legislative branches of our government.
Watch out for more deception. Google, 1935 Social Security Act, it is not too long a read. See if you think, as I do, that Social Security was supposed to be administered by the States under their welfare programs.
It smells like the proposal for a State opt out public health system.
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