Florida Tenth Amendment Center
Rob Natelson
Written by Rob Natelson
Did the Constitution cause our present “fiscal chaos?” Quite the contrary. The crisis has arisen not because we followed the Constitution, but because we have allowed federal officials to ignore it. In the 1930s, the Supreme Court announced that it would stop enforcing the Constitution’s limits on federal spending programs. Without meaningful spending restraint, Congress became an auction house where lobbyists could acquire new money streams for almost anything—a redundant health care program; a subsidy for an uneconomic product; or a modern art museum in Indiana.
It is hard to believe there would be a fiscal crisis today if federal spending had remained within the Constitution’s generous but limited boundaries.
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Great Read!! the comments are great too! Sadly we are so grossly undereducated regarding our true history. The folks who were alive when forming their state constitutions and the federal constitution knew they were not going to be perfect but that they have tried, admitting embarrassments from their past. That’s something that we all have to take into consideration when reading the constitution, however, we must not take things too lightly. If you read enough of this stuff you will find the intent of the framers, founders of the colonies and nation did intend for the constitution to acknowledge our natural right to possess firearms, our disdain for titles, — the removal of anyone from office who accepts acknowledgments from people who have titles (Obama got that gold medal from the Saudi king for example and i’m sure Hilary Clinton, George W Bush, et al others since post-1860s have done the same unconstitutionally. I think this is something that is taken too lightly by the people. Reading these old writings you will be able to see that the right to bear arms, the disdain for nobility and titles, etc. are some of the basic foundations on which this Nation rests. A lot of this stuff in there that they intended to be the pillars, well like pillars, they can’t be removed or else the whole thing will fall down.
Having said that, some of the ownership of weaponry is regulated by Congress, but IF AND ONLY IF the weaponry is used by the individual in his capacity as a member of the militia formed by a State AT THE REQUEST FROM CONGRESS that a militia needs to be formed. One can see that Congress needed to call the states to form militias early on in our history, from agitations from indians, often provoked by barbaric acts from scottish settlers unfortunately, to the Spanish, British again, etc.