How we lost our Democratic Republic and shredded the Constitution

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We have already lost our country to the elements of Socialist takeover artists on the left, in the Media and the Democratic Party. We pretend that the Constitution still means something. But given the size of the Federal bureaucracy today and Executive Departments formed to control us, it is long gone.

The Constitution is very clear. It defines the power of the Federal Government as limited to administrating of our laws and defending our borders. ALL other power is invested in the States and people of this Republic of States.

But all this was lost during the Socialist regime of Theodore Roosevelt. The ONLY President to be elected to four terms.

Federal Departments before Roosevelts Socialist takeover:

WAR, Post Office, Navy, Army and AirForce. FIVE departments.

Today we have FIFTEEN. This is how the left has slowly eroded our liberties and States rights as defined by the Constitution.

These are the departments we should disband:

The Interior. The Interior is none of the Federal Governments business and should be managed by individual States as they see fit.

Agriculture. Agriculture is none of the Federal Governments business and should be managed by individual States as they see fit.

Commerce. Commerce is another department that is none of the Federal Governments business and should be managed by individual States as they see fit.

Labor. Labor is another department that is none of the Federal Governments business and should be managed by individual States and free markets as they see fit.

Health and Human Services. This is the dumbest of the Executive Departments. Health is an individual decision and States are more than capable of managing without Federal intervention.

Housing and Urban Development. See above. The same applies.

Energy. See above. The same applies.

Education. Why should the Federal Government force itself on the States for education? Another useless bureaucracy costing us billions and making STUPID centralized decisions.

Eliminating these will bring us closer to the intent within the Constitution that States regulate themselves without Federal interference.

Lastly, the IRS and the Tax Code. This is a massive 10,000 page legislative nightmare full of favoritism, conflicting language and an attempt to control the citizens of this once great nation. It is an abomination. It is VOLUNTARY using the MASS of the power of the State to destroy you in order to force compliance.

It is also the source of much of the stupid legislating we see from the morons in the Nations legislature.

Abolishing the tax code would be the single greatest way to restore constitutional liberty. Supplanted by a FAIR consumption tax, it would require a far smaller bureaucracy to manage and actually bring in MORE revenue, be FAIRER and also bring in revenue from underground actors who currently pay nothing.

If Americans truly want to get back to the Constitutional basis of what made our nation great in the first place, we must undo the Mass Socialism that the Democratic Party has been engaging in for decades.

Trump's Presidency was evidence that Americans can get there. Perhaps the Fascist policies of the Biden Presidency will wake them up.
 
Before any discussion on the validity of governmental powers and taxation, discussion time must be given to the “official’ role of our Federal Government. There is a difference between Federal limits of power and State limits. These notes 1 are intended to help discuss Federal powers. When we omit the constitutionality question, we allow groups to establish the terms of the debate to the “isms,” liberalism, socialism, communism, totalitarianism, etc. Just because a majority of people want something (or even a vocal minority of people, it does not make it constitutional. Our Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. When we define and reduce Government in line with the limits imposed by the Constitution, the government will be small, and our federal budget would be balanced.

The Constitution’s Preamble says the federal government was established (and the Constitution was adopted) to “form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” The Constitution’s articles, and the subsequent Amendments, specify the powers of our government. They are listed in Article I, Sec. 8; Articles II-V; Amendments XIII-XVI, XIX-XX, XXIII-XXVI. These powers derived from one of the following categories:

Defense, war prosecution, peace, foreign relations, foreign commerce, and interstate commerce;

The protection of citizens’ constitutional rights (e.g. the right to vote) and ensuring that slavery remains illegal;

Establishing federal courts inferior to the Supreme Court of the United States;

Copyright protection;

Coining (and printing) money;

Establishing post offices and post roads, a road designated for the transportation of postal mail;

Establishing a national set of universal weights and measures;

Taxation needed to raise revenue to perform these essential functions.
https://www.lostpine.com/home/passi...stitution/the-role-of-the-federal-government/
 
Article I
Section 8
The Congress shall have Power 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;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

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;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

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;

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 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

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.

Section 9
The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.

No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.

No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.

No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Section 10
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

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.

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

Article II
Section 2
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

Article IV
Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Second Amendment
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

Ninth Amendment
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Tenth Amendment
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.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
 
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https://archive.org/details/pdfy-n6mqYo6d8uKz06xm

See pages 18 and 19 for the formula on cabinet size and growth while pages 14 - 17 are most illuminating on this subject.
 
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Truth Detector said:
Before any discussion on the validity of governmental powers and taxation, discussion time must be given to the “official’ role of our Federal Government. There is a difference between Federal limits of power and State limits. These notes 1 are intended to help discuss Federal powers. When we omit the constitutionality question, we allow groups to establish the terms of the debate to the “isms,” liberalism, socialism, communism, totalitarianism, etc. Just because a majority of people want something (or even a vocal minority of people, it does not make it constitutional. Our Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. When we define and reduce Government in line with the limits imposed by the Constitution, the government will be small, and our federal budget would be balanced.

The Constitution’s Preamble says the federal government was established (and the Constitution was adopted) to “form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” The Constitution’s articles, and the subsequent Amendments, specify the powers of our government. They are listed in Article I, Sec. 8; Articles II-V; Amendments XIII-XVI, XIX-XX, XXIII-XXVI. These powers derived from one of the following categories:

Defense, war prosecution, peace, foreign relations, foreign commerce, and interstate commerce;

The protection of citizens’ constitutional rights (e.g. the right to vote) and ensuring that slavery remains illegal;

Establishing federal courts inferior to the Supreme Court of the United States;

Copyright protection;

Coining (and printing) money;

Establishing post offices and post roads, a road designated for the transportation of postal mail;

Establishing a national set of universal weights and measures;

Taxation needed to raise revenue to perform these essential functions.
https://www.lostpine.com/home/passi...stitution/the-role-of-the-federal-government/
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Truth Detector said:
We have already lost our country to the elements of Socialist takeover artists on the left, in the Media and the Democratic Party. We pretend that the Constitution still means something. But given the size of the Federal bureaucracy today and Executive Departments formed to control us, it is long gone.

The Constitution is very clear. It defines the power of the Federal Government as limited to administrating of our laws and defending our borders. ALL other power is invested in the States and people of this Republic of States.

But all this was lost during the Socialist regime of Theodore Roosevelt. The ONLY President to be elected to four terms.

Federal Departments before Roosevelts Socialist takeover:

WAR, Post Office, Navy, Army and AirForce. FIVE departments.

Today we have FIFTEEN. This is how the left has slowly eroded our liberties and States rights as defined by the Constitution.

These are the departments we should disband:

The Interior. The Interior is none of the Federal Governments business and should be managed by individual States as they see fit.

Agriculture. Agriculture is none of the Federal Governments business and should be managed by individual States as they see fit.

Commerce. Commerce is another department that is none of the Federal Governments business and should be managed by individual States as they see fit.

Labor. Labor is another department that is none of the Federal Governments business and should be managed by individual States and free markets as they see fit.

Health and Human Services. This is the dumbest of the Executive Departments. Health is an individual decision and States are more than capable of managing without Federal intervention.

Housing and Urban Development. See above. The same applies.

Energy. See above. The same applies.

Education. Why should the Federal Government force itself on the States for education? Another useless bureaucracy costing us billions and making STUPID centralized decisions.

Eliminating these will bring us closer to the intent within the Constitution that States regulate themselves without Federal interference.

Lastly, the IRS and the Tax Code. This is a massive 10,000 page legislative nightmare full of favoritism, conflicting language and an attempt to control the citizens of this once great nation. It is an abomination. It is VOLUNTARY using the MASS of the power of the State to destroy you in order to force compliance.

It is also the source of much of the stupid legislating we see from the morons in the Nations legislature.

Abolishing the tax code would be the single greatest way to restore constitutional liberty. Supplanted by a FAIR consumption tax, it would require a far smaller bureaucracy to manage and actually bring in MORE revenue, be FAIRER and also bring in revenue from underground actors who currently pay nothing.

If Americans truly want to get back to the Constitutional basis of what made our nation great in the first place, we must undo the Mass Socialism that the Democratic Party has been engaging in for decades.

Trump's Presidency was evidence that Americans can get there. Perhaps the Fascist policies of the Biden Presidency will wake them up.
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You do not decide what our government is and what it is not, and neither did our forefathers.

Our forefathers wrote the Constitution so that "WE THE PEOPLE" decide this for ourselves.

NOW GO FUCK YOURSELF IDIOT!
 
Truth Detector said:
We have already lost our country to the elements of Socialist takeover artists on the left, in the Media and the Democratic Party. We pretend that the Constitution still means something. But given the size of the Federal bureaucracy today and Executive Departments formed to control us, it is long gone.

The Constitution is very clear. It defines the power of the Federal Government as limited to administrating of our laws and defending our borders. ALL other power is invested in the States and people of this Republic of States.
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Its too late....the people did not pay attention and did not care, and now America is been taken from the people by a Regressive Left Revolution. No where near enough people are willing to fight to get America back.

Its all over.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Its too late....the people did not pay attention and did not care, and now America is been taken from the people by a Regressive Left Revolution. No where near enough people are willing to fight to get America back.

Its all over.
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Better leave quick. Don't let the screen door hit you in the ass on the way out.

Bye!!!
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Its too late....the people did not pay attention and did not care, and now America is been taken from the people by a Regressive Left Revolution. No where near enough people are willing to fight to get America back.

Its all over.
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It's NEVER over. Oh yeah, I forgot to include Congressional term limits in my narrative. Two terms for Senators, six terms for Representatives. Once served, you cannot go from House to the Senate. TWELVE years total and that is IT.
 
Truth Detector said:
We have already lost our country to the elements of Socialist takeover artists on the left, in the Media and the Democratic Party. We pretend that the Constitution still means something. But given the size of the Federal bureaucracy today and Executive Departments formed to control us, it is long gone.

The Constitution is very clear. It defines the power of the Federal Government as limited to administrating of our laws and defending our borders. ALL other power is invested in the States and people of this Republic of States.

But all this was lost during the Socialist regime of Theodore Roosevelt. The ONLY President to be elected to four terms.

Federal Departments before Roosevelts Socialist takeover:

WAR, Post Office, Navy, Army and AirForce. FIVE departments.

Today we have FIFTEEN. This is how the left has slowly eroded our liberties and States rights as defined by the Constitution.

These are the departments we should disband:

The Interior. The Interior is none of the Federal Governments business and should be managed by individual States as they see fit.

Agriculture. Agriculture is none of the Federal Governments business and should be managed by individual States as they see fit.

Commerce. Commerce is another department that is none of the Federal Governments business and should be managed by individual States as they see fit.

Labor. Labor is another department that is none of the Federal Governments business and should be managed by individual States and free markets as they see fit.

Health and Human Services. This is the dumbest of the Executive Departments. Health is an individual decision and States are more than capable of managing without Federal intervention.

Housing and Urban Development. See above. The same applies.

Energy. See above. The same applies.

Education. Why should the Federal Government force itself on the States for education? Another useless bureaucracy costing us billions and making STUPID centralized decisions.

Eliminating these will bring us closer to the intent within the Constitution that States regulate themselves without Federal interference.

Lastly, the IRS and the Tax Code. This is a massive 10,000 page legislative nightmare full of favoritism, conflicting language and an attempt to control the citizens of this once great nation. It is an abomination. It is VOLUNTARY using the MASS of the power of the State to destroy you in order to force compliance.

It is also the source of much of the stupid legislating we see from the morons in the Nations legislature.

Abolishing the tax code would be the single greatest way to restore constitutional liberty. Supplanted by a FAIR consumption tax, it would require a far smaller bureaucracy to manage and actually bring in MORE revenue, be FAIRER and also bring in revenue from underground actors who currently pay nothing.

If Americans truly want to get back to the Constitutional basis of what made our nation great in the first place, we must undo the Mass Socialism that the Democratic Party has been engaging in for decades.

Trump's Presidency was evidence that Americans can get there. Perhaps the Fascist policies of the Biden Presidency will wake them up.
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