U.S. Senate Leader Calls For Israeli Prime Minister To Resign
every vague policy, unless sealed in meaning by legal documents themselves, allows a certain amount…
Nothing could be farther from the truth. The States ratified the Constitution on the explicit condition that the federal government would only have those powers explicitly spelled out in the contract they made among themselves. The government is the agent of the States, created by the States for the benefit of the States, and that agent was created in the contract on the explicit understanding that if it went beyond those powers the ratifying States gave to it, the States had every right to withdraw from the contract by secession, or, if deemed a favorable alternative, interpose their sovereignty against its schemes via nullification. In legal theory, you may have been unaware, the understanding of those who ratified any contract or agreement is what matters, and the States, as individual parties ratifying a compact, explicitly spelled out precisely those limitations you claim should not bind us today. As the State governments have never surrendered those rights, you'd need a whole new Constitution in order for the government to be able to do whatever the h–ll it pleases, as you apparently want it to do. There is no room for any elastic interpretation. I know the "elastic clauses" by heart that you claim allow the federal government to commit all manner of mischief – the "General Welfare" "Necessary and Proper" "Commerce" and "Post Roads" clauses, but I have looked into – in great depth – those clauses and could only conclude that they were not meant as a vast grant of authority to the federal government. If desired, I can prove this assertion in depth & handle each alleged "elastic clause" individually to debunk your entire position (which I've done before with the "General Welfare" to your embarrassment). I can provide hundreds of quotations from the ratifiers about this and explain it all to you. What would you like to know?
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