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2011-09-19 Home Front: Politix

Tenth Amendment - too Much of a Mediocre Thing

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Posted by Bobby 2011-09-19 13:31|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The idea of a "living" Constitution is fundamentally inconsistent with the idea of having a *written* Constitution. Pick one, but don't pretend they can be the same thing.

Posted by Iblis 2011-09-19 14:05|| 2011-09-19 14:05|| Front Page Top

#2 A Living Constitution wouldn't really need a way to add Amendments. There is a basic contradiction in the living constutition position.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-09-19 14:45|| 2011-09-19 14:45|| Front Page Top

#3 The Commerce Clause, giving the federal government the authority to regulate commerce among the states, would be drastically diminished.

Particularly since judges and the bureaucracy have extended it to include intrastate commerce that doesn't go beyond state lines. See how they interpret things that existed in the 19th Century into new things in the 20th Century vis a vis water flow and air flow across state borders. How does a commerce clause force me to buy health care insurance if I never leave my state?

It's just not the 10th Amendment but Article V which describes the amending process. The 'progressives' know they can't make it happen. All the interpretation is because they know they don't have the numbers necessary to alter the written constitution.

The danger for the progressives is that they have reduced the paper down to a simple relic that who ever has it can declare their power legitimate. That's why they go apes**t when the other side gets the power they created. It's also one of the principles they destroyed in their process - don't consolidate power that you wouldn't want your opponent to ever have over you.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-09-19 14:48|| 2011-09-19 14:48|| Front Page Top

#4 The Commerce Clause, giving the federal government the authority to regulate commerce among the states, would be drastically diminished.

Diminished? Tell me why this is a bad thing?

The progressives version of government has gotten us into the current morass.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-09-19 17:43|| 2011-09-19 17:43|| Front Page Top

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