“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.” – Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Greetings my fellow Americans!
With the rightful undoing of the “law” which was purported to require individual United States to allow people to kill their own babies, a great national human (and American) injustice has been made right. There is certainly much to be celebrated in the notion that our national government no longer appears to have the legal power to compel us to support these actions regardless of whether or not we agree, and we have reason to believe that religious freedom is gaining renewed recognition in a country premised on the principles of government Of, By and For the People.
I’d like to take a broader view of this decision by SCOTUS, not to diminish the importance of recognizing such freedom nor the sacredness of human life, but rather to further explore the implications of it on the current structure of our government—at all levels—as well as on We the People, and why such a decision has been so feared by those who have spent their lives and careers working to central planning, power and control in Washington, D.C. By exposing this opinion of an earlier Supreme Court for what it was—an OPINION—this latest collection of Justices has stirred of a wind aimed squarely at the house of cards upon which a majority of the national agencies which have been created to “solve national problems.” It also calls into serious question the enforceability of virtually any national mandate which has been instituted via means other than the legislative due process explicated in our Constitution.
As a so-called constitutional conservative, I have bemoaned the notions of legislating “from the bench” and via Executive Order, neither of which is stipulated in the Constitution, and is, rather, prohibited by virtue of Article I, Section I: “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” Legal and judicial gymnastics performed since ratification notwithstanding, this seems to be very a straightforward statement of who is responsible for making law in the United States of America. Regardless of emotions on either side of the specific issue of abortion, the SCOTUS of 1973 had no business deciding whether the Constitution provided a legally protected right to it, nor did the U.S. Congress have the authority to abdicate responsibility for legislating this to any other branch. Congress, conversely, has both the sworn duty and responsibility to act whenever either of the other two branches has usurped their sole authority and responsibility, as direct representatives of the People, to legislate, and to be held accountable to the People for such legislation.
Regarding national agencies and bureaucracies, the unwinding of Roe v. Wade by today’s SCOTUS also reminds and reinforces that we have a Tenth Amendment to the Bill of Rights, which makes clear that anything not explicitly in the Constitution is reserved to the States. Insofar as this clarifying addition to the core founding document has been virtually ignored for as long as I can remember, that the effect of undoing Roe has renewed interest in, and acknowledged the existence of, it is not insignificant, and should cast suspicion on any and all functions of our current national government which are not spelled out in the Constitution. Further, it returns control, responsibility and accountability to the States for determining for themselves how and whether to enact and enforce such a mandate; likewise, it returns responsibility to the People to ensure they are electing people for their State and local governments who will properly represent and/or govern them as regards this issue, and should open a Pandora’s box of scrutiny of other such mandates.
What we have the real potential of witnessing with this decision is a reawakening to, and revival of, the republican system of government upon which our great nation was originally based. And while I have no delusions that resolution of this issue alone will be the panacea for what ails our deeply divided modern culture, it, at the very least, has reignited the discussions of the proper roles of government at the respective federated levels originally conceived of by our founders, and shifts the recognition of responsibilities for a civilization Of, By and For the People back to where it belongs—which is the real reason why it is, and has been, so greatly feared by those who have so greatly benefitted from our general ignorance of it.
This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it
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Tenth Amendment has been regarded as ambiguous by some and by others as what it is – truth to the power of the People over the document itself. Now, . . . . the balance is always to maintain itself. This means the system of the federal government must be balanced internally AND with the States. This also indicates the States will survive without a federal government by their very nature as individual countries. This truth has been lost over time or at least not brought up enough to refresh itself as to what the USA is.
As it was created, our Federal Government was the first “globalistic” entity. We see the dangers associated with such a structure when it proceeds to be more than it’s allowed to be and goes past its mandate. While the truth of our federal structure has been debated from the beginning, see the Federalist Papers, and history continues this debate, citizens must not forget, nor shirk their lost duty, to know and exercise their inherent Rights in this on going debate to the heart and nature of our American System – Self-Government – a balance – a compromise – a union.
Thus, the Bigger Picture, to me, is the collection of fragments, the jigsaw puzzle, the neighborhoods which chose to be brought together for some sort of common good, but one which does not forget who it’s for, who created it, and above all else who sustains it – the People.
However, the even bigger picture is life itself. Sustaining life is obvious. Sustaining a culture likewise so too. And, cultures change over time, and while peoples from many cultures have come here, a common culture is to be the stability required to sustain this country. This we debate.
And, the debate is more than is realized today. My culture here goes back 400 years and it’s been taken over by the new people as was the culture before mine. These can not be resolved anymore than other areas of the world where people’s have migrated, wared, and such. Some in Washington DC voice views of oppression. They are false voices since they fail to address the truth of what was here before this hemisphere was “discovered”. Thus, those voices are false and wrong and destructive. Thus, if one group is to be blamed, then all are equally to blame for any ills transpiring by their being here and must now leave the hemisphere too.
Such is human nature. Fighting and loving and never ceasing to be still and go far at the same time. After I die I no longer have a say in the eternal debate of people wanting to live as they think they should. The living decide, of course, and they alone will chose their path.
Truth guides. Wisdom sustains.