Has the Federal Government O’erleaped Its Constitutional Limits and Grown Too Big?
By Robert Higgs • Tuesday December 21, 2010 7:33 PM PDT • 4 Comments
You be the judge. You may base your judgment in part on the information contained in the following e-mail message that I received this evening. I post it here in full.
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“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.”
- Tenth Amendment
Yeah, I’d say they’ve overdone it just a tad.
Steve Hogan | Dec 21, 2010 | Reply
“Congress can do whatever it wants.”
– Commerce Clause, modern interpretation
Rock Conner | Dec 23, 2010 | Reply
Mr. Higgs, the answer to the question you have posed, if answered by the zombie vampires that I call “Government People”, would be an emphatic NO. I predict that they will answer in the affirmative at the precise moment that their monster collapses like a cardboard coffin.
My answer would be YES, but my opinion is not valued by most people. In fact, my opinion along with 69.95 will buy you a lousy CD from us-grantsguide.info that apparently attempts to refute the maxim that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Tom Blanton | Dec 24, 2010 | Reply
No American male is eligible for any of these if he has not registered for the draft.
No such requirement applies to any female.
Read the book/CD, or my article in December’s Freeman.
N. Joseph Potts | Dec 27, 2010 | Reply