
- TOPICS
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- Tentherism
- http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=rally_round_the_true_constitution
- "Tenthers divine all this from the brief language of the 10th Amendment, which provides that '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.' In layman's terms, this simply means that the Constitution contains an itemized list of federal powers -- such as the power to regulate interstate commerce or establish post offices or make war on foreign nations -- and anything not contained in that list is beyond Congress' authority."
- Why do conservatives have a problem with the Federal government?
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- LINKS
- ‘Tenther’ Activists Add The Federal Highway System To List Of Programs To Kill
- http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/27/tenther-highway/
- “All of those issues belong to the states and the people. Healthcare is not a federal issue. It is a state and people issue — the same with transportation. The Constitution does say that the federal government can take care of what are called the post roads — those on which the mail travels — but outside of that, states are responsible for their own highways, their own roads, their own county, local, state roads,” he notes. “And her comment about, ‘Well, the Constitution doesn’t cover drug use and drug abuse’ — yes it does, and that is under the criminal justice issues that belong to the states.”
- New Hampshire Dem discredits U.S. Constitution
- http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=659584
- ""All of those issues belong to the states and the people. Healthcare is not a federal issue. It is a state and people issue -- the same with transportation.'"
- Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
September 03, 2009 9:00 - 10:00 P.M.