Our Constitution is a simple document. Our Founders articulated and enumerated those things FedGov may do. This was ratified by the Legislatures and People in each of the Colonies.
Anything FedGov does beyond the listed tasks below is not merely "null and void'" but criminal. And acts performed beyond the scope of the enumerated powers are not mere petty crimes - they are tyrannical infringements upon the Natural Rights of our Countrymen - High Crimes.
Your State has many more powers than does the Federal Government. However, no State may infringe the Natural Rights of an American, either, without crossing into lawlessness.
If every Patriot reading this blog put as much energy into correcting the Evils being imposed by their State Governments, I dare say the Federal Government would whither on the vine - starved of its lifeblood.
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Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution is widely cited as
being an exhaustive list of Congressional power. But, in reality, there are a
total of thirty (up to 35, depending on how they’re counted) Congressional
powers that are listed throughout the document. Find them here:
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To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and
Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general
Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be
uniform throughout the United States;
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To borrow Money on the credit of the United
States;
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To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and
among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
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To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,
and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
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To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and
of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
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To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting
the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
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To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
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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;
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To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme
Court;
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To define and punish Piracies and Felonies
committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
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To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and
Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
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To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation
of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
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To provide and maintain a Navy;
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To make Rules for the Government and Regulation
of the land and naval Forces;
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To provide for calling forth the Militia to
execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
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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;
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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
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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.
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No State shall, without the Consent of the
Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be
absolutely necessary for executing it’s inspection Laws:and the net Produce of
all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for
the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be
subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
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The Congress may determine the Time of chusing
the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall
be the same throughout the United States.
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In Case of the Removal of the President from
Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and
Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and
the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or
Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer
shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the
Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
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The judicial Power of the United States, shall
be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may
from time to time ordain and establish.
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The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of
Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where
the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any
State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law
have directed.
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The Congress shall have Power to declare the
Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of
Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
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Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each
State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other
State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such
Acts, Records, and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
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New States may be admitted by the Congress into
this Union;
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The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and
make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other
Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall
be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any
particular State.
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The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses
shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on
the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall
call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be
valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified
by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions
in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be
proposed by the Congress
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The House of Representatives shall chuse their
Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment…
Kerodin
III
