Ok, Let’s Play!

J.J. Jackson* | April 28, 2006

Democrats MAY be opening a can of worms here they DO NOT want to open. That can of worms? The debate over what the Constitution actually says!

WASHINGTON ? Eleven House Democrats said Thursday they would sue the Bush administration, alleging the $39 billion deficit-reducing legislation signed by the president is unconstitutional because the House and Senate failed to approve identical versions.

The lawsuit, led by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, was to be filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Detroit. Similar lawsuits have been filed in other states by an Alabama attorney and a Florida-based student loan consulting firm.

“Once again the administration is playing fast and loose with the Constitution,” Conyers said. “Anyone who has passed the sixth grade knows that before a bill can become law, both Houses of Congress must approve it.” - Fox News

And, Mr. Conyers, anyone who has passed the 6th grade knows that there is only ONE valid function of laws and “earmarks” passed by Congress which is spelled out in Article I, Section 8 “Section. 8.
The Congress shall have 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” and it is bound by 17 very strict qualifiers. If you doubt this, please click on the link I provided to Federalist #41 in which Madison explains all this.

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 Marquee 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.

So let’s “talk” about the Constitutionality of much of what you and your fellow liberals along with the RINOs actually put in the budget each year shall we?

I doubt very much you actually want to have THAT conversation though. After all purposefully violating the Constitution, like you do each year by voting for unconstitutional spending is a high crime which is grounds for impeachment.

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Update: Added to Stop the ACLU’s Saturday Linkfest

The Constitution in Exile : How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land

(Book)

Authors:Andrew P. Napolitano
Manufacturer:Nelson Current
Released:18 April, 2006

Constitutional Chaos : What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws

(Book)

Authors:Andrew P. Napolitano
Manufacturer:Nelson Current
Released:11 November, 2004

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