Amending American Constitution Day
Amending American Constitution Day
Today is Constitution Day in the United States.
It seems appropriate to remember especially this day the 10th Amendment to the Constitution:
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.
What a wonderful expression of federalism, a component feature of which is the concept of subsidiarity, or rather, coordinated and variegated sovereignty. Lord Acton said that federalism “is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.” He also noted that federalism is “is coordination instead of subordination; association instead of hierarchical order; independent forces curbing each other; balance, therefore, liberty.”
Members of Congress, regardless of the party in power, pass legislation that far exceeds its authorized role in Article I, Section 8, such as health care and passing stimulus legislation (which happened twice under Bush).
These are just examples of some of problems. I’m not even getting into our foreign policy and infringement on other personal liberties, like the Second Amendment and private property rights.
Grab a copy of the Constitution and read it. It’s short, much shorter than the legislation passed out of Congress these days, and easy to understand. It is not a “living document that can change with the times, it can be amended and the process for that is clearly laid out in Article V.
Their Constitution is in trouble. It is up to them to keep their elected officials accountable. Get informed.
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