STUNNER! TRUMP
CITES 10TH AMENDMENT IN AGENDA, 'Many areas of governance are left to the people and the
states', by Bob Unruh, 11/10/16
Nothing about Donald
Trump’s candidacy for the presidency was normal. After all, he defeated more
than a dozen recognized names in the Republican Party – even after he
refused to promise he would support Nor was his stunning-to-many election
victory over Hillary Clinton, an icon of one of the most powerful political
families in the nation, routine. He won states that Republicans
had not won in decades. Now, it appears his tenure in the Oval Office will
venture from the mainstream, but probably in a good way. A constitutional
way.
On a new
website his transition team has created, he’s advocating for the 10th Amendment, the provision in
the U.S. Constitution cited often by conservatives who believe the
federal government has usurped rights the Founders meant for the states.
Under his
plan to “make America great again,” he addresses constitutional
rights.
“Donald Trump
understands the solemn duty that comes from the oath of office – swearing to
‘preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.’ He
embraces the fact that the reason the Founders of this nation decided to adopt
a written Constitution as the supreme law of the land for the first time in
world history was to create a democratic form of government in which ordinary
people would know the powers of government and the rights of the people. That
is why the Constitution’s 4,400 words were written in a way that ordinary
Americans would read and understand them, and use a standard to hold public
officials accountable.”
The statement continues:
“As President, Donald Trump will fulfill that sworn duty, vetoing legislation
that exceeds congressional authority, taking actions as chief executive and
commander-in-chief that are consistent with his constitutional role, and
nominating judges and Supreme Court justices who are committed to interpreting
the Constitution and laws according to their original public meaning.
“He will defend
Americans’ fundamental rights to free speech, religious liberty, keeping and
bearing arms, and all other rights guaranteed to them in the Bill of Rights and
other constitutional provisions. This includes the Tenth Amendment guarantee
that many areas of governance are left to the people and the states, and are
not the role of the federal government to fulfill. The Constitution declares
that as Americans we have the right to speak freely, share and live out our
beliefs, raise and protect our families, be free from undue governmental abuse,
and participate in the public square. ”
The amendment states,
“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.”
The
Tenth Amendment Center lists about
30 specific powers granted to the federal government
in the Constitution, although the number may change depending on how they’re
counted:
·
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.
·
No State shall, without
the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports,
except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it’s inspection Laws: and
the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or
Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all
such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
·
The Congress may
determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall
give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
·
In Case of the Removal
of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to
discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on
the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of
Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice
President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer
shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be
elected.
·
The judicial Power of
the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior
Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
·
The Trial of all Crimes,
except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held
in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not
committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the
Congress may by Law have directed.
·
The Congress shall have
Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall
work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person
attainted.
·
Full Faith and Credit
shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial
Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws
prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records, and Proceedings shall be
proved, and the Effect thereof.
·
New States may be
admitted by the Congress into this Union;
·
The Congress shall have
Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the
Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this
Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United
States, or of any particular State.
·
The Congress, whenever
two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to
this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of
the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in
either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this
Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several
States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other
Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress
·
The House of
Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have
the sole Power of Impeachment…
·
The Senate shall have
the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they
shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is
tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted
without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
·
The Times, Places and
Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be
prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at
any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of
chusing Senators.
Those who read the
language plainly point out that there’s no federal authority for an
Environmental Protection Agency, a Department of Education and many other agencies through
which Washington exercises authority over the states.
The argument was used
against Obamacare, with critics protesting that the federal government doesn’t
have the authority to force all citizens to buy a consumer product.
The 10th Amendment,
however, has been discussed little by federal politicians. Those most likely to
cite it routinely are classified as “protesters,” “patriots” or “sovereign
citizens,” by the federal government.
The TAC’s Michael Boldin
wrote: “When it comes to limits of federal power under the Constitution, the
view of many Founding Fathers fits under the same theme. That is, federal acts
outside of the Constitution are null and void. Oliver Ellsworth, the Supreme
Court’s third chief justice, put it this way during the ratification debates:
‘If the United States go beyond their powers, if they make a law which the
Constitution does not authorize, it is void.'”
Boldin noted that in
1798, Thomas Jefferson “wrote that ‘whensoever the General Government
assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no
force.'”
“It’s my opinion that no
one in their right mind should expect the federal government to limit itself.
This also includes the federal courts, a branch of the federal government. And,
as I noted in my July 2013 column at Personal Liberty, ‘voting the bums out’
hasn’t been a good strategy either. In other words, if you have a problem with
the federal government, you need something outside the federal government to
stop it. That would be the states and the people,” he wrote.
Trump also outlined on
his site his plans for defense, national security, immigration, a border
wall, energy independence, tax reform, regulatory reform, trade reform,
education, transportation and infrastructure, financial services reform and
health-care reform.
http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/stunner-trump-cites-10th-amendment-in-agenda/
Comments
I saw
this coming. Trump hinted at this during the campaign. The media missed it.
Liberals will go nuts.
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