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Federal spending authority
Letter to the editor;
(An open letter to your Congresscritter)
Do you get your authority by way of the Constitution?
(YES.)
Do you get just a little extra authority some other way?
(NO.)
The Constitution tells you how you may spend money
.Army.
Navy.
Post offices and Post roads.
Patent office.
Courts.
Piracy-punishment.
Counterfeiting-punishment.
Treason-punishment.
Naturalization laws.
Bankruptcy laws.
There's some stuff about the militia, too. No doubt that authorizes you to spend money on it.
Did I miss anything?
(YOU SURE DID.)
But the list is short.
Is your authority open-ended? Is it limitless?
(NOT REALLY.)
Is there a clause in the Constitution that if Congress REALLY wants something, or if the political situation REALLY requires it, that over-rides the whole rest of the Constitution?
(OH, DON'T I WISH!)
The chances are that we could pay off the national debt in a single generation if you would obey the Constitution and limit your spending to those items it authorizes.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Showing posts with label Constitution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Constitution. Show all posts
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Deliberately killing human beings
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Killing men and babies
Letter to the editor;
You probably think this is going to be a flaming polemical against abortion.
Actually, I am very much in favor of a certain variety of abortion.
Some men are so awfully evil that the only reasonable way to deal with them is to “cancel their birth certificates” and RETROACTIVELY abort them.
(Wow! Even from way back here, I can see the hackles rising on the politically-correct. There seems to be a correlation coefficient of about zero-point-nine between those who favor abortion and those who oppose capital punishment.)
Well, I also oppose capital punishment -- of two varieties: When the guilt of the defendant is not actually, truly, “proven beyond a reasonable doubt” – and when the “defendant” is too young to have done the crime, or even too young to be born, and is sentenced to death merely for being inconvenient.
We don’t need a Constitutional Amendment to take care of this. We already have the Fourteenth Amendment, which says that no State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. That is, we are all to be protected by law from being murdered – including those who are not yet born.
As for capital punishment, the same Amendment says no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. That indicates that States may deprive murderers of life, but only after due process of law. See? Retroactive abortion.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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Killing men and babies
Letter to the editor;
You probably think this is going to be a flaming polemical against abortion.
Actually, I am very much in favor of a certain variety of abortion.
Some men are so awfully evil that the only reasonable way to deal with them is to “cancel their birth certificates” and RETROACTIVELY abort them.
(Wow! Even from way back here, I can see the hackles rising on the politically-correct. There seems to be a correlation coefficient of about zero-point-nine between those who favor abortion and those who oppose capital punishment.)
Well, I also oppose capital punishment -- of two varieties: When the guilt of the defendant is not actually, truly, “proven beyond a reasonable doubt” – and when the “defendant” is too young to have done the crime, or even too young to be born, and is sentenced to death merely for being inconvenient.
We don’t need a Constitutional Amendment to take care of this. We already have the Fourteenth Amendment, which says that no State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. That is, we are all to be protected by law from being murdered – including those who are not yet born.
As for capital punishment, the same Amendment says no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. That indicates that States may deprive murderers of life, but only after due process of law. See? Retroactive abortion.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Are governments above the law?
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The that government must obey
Letter to the editor;
Every level of government passes laws -- and forces people to obey them.
What law do governments have to obey?
Municipalities have to operate within the bounds of their charters.
States – and the national government – have to obey their constitutions.
They don’t obey. But they still have to. The fact that they daily violate their charters and constitutions does not nullify them. Those documents remain the law -- and the violations remain crimes. Only, nobody punishes crimes that are committed by governments.
Government agencies commit crimes against people they are supposed to protect.
Politicians foment wars against countries that never did us any harm.
Our Beloved Leaders make secret deals with foreign leaders in violation of the Constitution.
Judges get so friendly with prosecutors that defendants are utterly ignored in their courtrooms.
Municipal land-use bureaus get so interested in making their cities beautiful that they deliberately grind the faces of the poor to force them to move out of town.
Close decisions are decided by giving nice jobs (that do not involve showing up at work) to worthless, do-nothing relatives.
Judges decree that nobody has standing to challenge acts of government. Worse; they invented “judicial immunity” to protect themselves from accountability.
I don’t know how to hold government to account for disobeying the law. Does anyone? I want to know. Answer me at glenn3@frontiernet.net.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
Permission is granted to edit, print and/or broadcast these weekly polemical essays.
(To subscribe -- for yourself or a friend – or to unsubscribe – send the e-address.)
The that government must obey
Letter to the editor;
Every level of government passes laws -- and forces people to obey them.
What law do governments have to obey?
Municipalities have to operate within the bounds of their charters.
States – and the national government – have to obey their constitutions.
They don’t obey. But they still have to. The fact that they daily violate their charters and constitutions does not nullify them. Those documents remain the law -- and the violations remain crimes. Only, nobody punishes crimes that are committed by governments.
Government agencies commit crimes against people they are supposed to protect.
Politicians foment wars against countries that never did us any harm.
Our Beloved Leaders make secret deals with foreign leaders in violation of the Constitution.
Judges get so friendly with prosecutors that defendants are utterly ignored in their courtrooms.
Municipal land-use bureaus get so interested in making their cities beautiful that they deliberately grind the faces of the poor to force them to move out of town.
Close decisions are decided by giving nice jobs (that do not involve showing up at work) to worthless, do-nothing relatives.
Judges decree that nobody has standing to challenge acts of government. Worse; they invented “judicial immunity” to protect themselves from accountability.
I don’t know how to hold government to account for disobeying the law. Does anyone? I want to know. Answer me at glenn3@frontiernet.net.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
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