kattmanduu wrote:
How many know the American f**g has stars and stripes, not stars and bars?
How many know that US citizens are of all races and religions?
How many know that the government cannot support religion per the 1st amendment? That means it cannot mandate the beliefs of any religion on all. Or that it cannot define what is a deity or a belief, that choice is up to the individual.
How many know that the people are human beings, not corporations that exist only on paper, bought and sold or k**led off by their owners at will.
How many know that we have freedom of choice? Our own choices not those that others decide or pick for us to choose from.
How many know that their freedoms and liberties come with an equal amount of responsibilities?
You want everyone to take a test, so be it, let's test your knowledge of the Constitution and how it defines the rolls of the citizens and those of the government officials. The duties of each branch of government. The oath of office each official takes, and just how serious they take what it says in their oath. How the members of our military are punished for their violations of their oath of office, and our elected/appointed officials just laugh in our faces as they violate the most important parts of their oath.
A smaller government would be great for a smaller country, but when you are as big as we are and far reaching as we have become it requires more control and regulation to maintain such a vast and diverse nation with such a diverse population and multifaceted industry and society and vast amount of real estate to protect. A small government was fine for 13 states and less than a million people and less than a third of the land mass we have now. The city government of Dallas Tx is bigger than our original national government.
If people and or the corporations and business's would not pollute the environment we wouldn't need the EPA. If industry would always make safe products such as devices, food and medications we wouldn't need any product safety regulations. If everyone would respect the rights of others we wouldn't need any laws protecting certain groups or persons.
The bigger we become the more rules and regulations we need.
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The point is that we do not need a big government.
The federal government was given these enumerated powers, that's it. Though some of these were added after the original signing.
The founders gave the federal government right to
Many, but not all, powers of Congress are contained in Article I, Section 8. The full list, including the law-making powers follows:
*Levy Taxes
*Borrow money on the credit of the United States.
*Spend when authorized by an approriations bill
*Pay the Federal debt
*Constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court
*Declare War
*Raise armies, a navy, and provide for the common defense
*Introduce constitutional amendments and choose the mode of ratification
*Call a Constitutional Convention on the application of two-thirds of the States
*Regulate interstate and foreign commerce.
*Coin Money
*Standardize the value of currency
*Regulate copyrights and patents
*Establish federal courts lower than the Supreme Court.
*Limit the appellate jurisdiction of the Federal Courts including the Supreme Court.
*Standardize weights and measures.
*Establish uniform times for e******ns.
*Control the Postal System
*Establish laws governing citizenship
*Make its own rules and discipline its own members .
*Provide for the punishment of counterfeiting, piracy, treason and other Federal Crimes.
*Exercise exclusive jurisdiction over the District of Columbia
*Establish Bankruptcy laws
*Override p**********l vetoes.
*Oversee all Federal property and possesions
*Fill a vacancy in the presidency in cases of death or inability
* Receive and count e*******l v**es for the Presidency
*Keep and publish a journal of its proceedings
*Conduct a census every ten years.
*Approve treaties, cabinet level appointments, and appointments to the Supreme Court (Senate only).
*Impeach (House only) and try (Senate only) federal officers.
*Initiate all bills for raising revenue (House only).
All other responsibilities was retained for the state or the people themselves, as determined by each states constitution.
Constitution of Massachusetts, as written by John Adams 1780
PREAMBLE:
Art. V.
All power residing originally in the people, and being derived from them, the several magistrates and officers of government vested with authority, whether legislative, executive, or judicial, are the substitutes and agents, and are at all times accountable to them.
The federal government has the right to raise armies, a navy, and provide for the common defence. That would be done in proportion to the size of the country.
You assume that because the progressive socialist liberals have swollen the federal government, that it absolutely had to be done and that it can't be undone.
Or that swelling the government was the only option and that swelling the federal government has worked.
Your wrong on all counts.