Why Our Powers Are Usurped

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Source; https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/why-our-powers-are-usurped

The Constitution expressly defines the Federal, State, and the Peoples powers in government.

Article I, Section 8:

Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have the power

·        To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense 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 offenses 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.

Our education systems have not educated the majority of the population, so they do not understand the limited scope of federal authority.  This is opposite of the desires of the Democrat Party's objective, to advance full despotic authority over the people. 

 

Our Founders set the Federal Government's scope of power, as the weakest of the powers. Ultimate Power resides with the people. The people have the power to work together to enact necessary changes through Amendments. But, all such changes at the Federal Level must necessarily either fall within the limited powers established in our Constitution, or the 'interpretation' of the Constitution must be amended through article V, by Amendment. Those changes are endorsed by two-thirds of the States, two-thirds of Congress, and sent to all 50 States for Ratification, and finally ratified by three-quarters of the States to become law.

 

You will note Article 1, section 8, does not give the federal government any arbitrary powers designed to "rule over men".  It provides for separation of powers, in the federal government and among the levels of government (federal, state, local).  Article IV, Section 4, guarantees "to every state in this union a [constitutional] republican form of government".  The greatest powers of government are reserved to the States and the People.