{"id":377032,"date":"2018-09-12T18:01:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T17:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/its-our-constitution-thats-the-problem-for-leftists\/"},"modified":"2018-09-12T18:01:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T17:01:45","slug":"its-our-constitution-thats-the-problem-for-leftists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/its-our-constitution-thats-the-problem-for-leftists\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Our Constitution That\u2019s the Problem for Leftists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the best statements of how the Framers saw the role of the federal government is found in Federalist Paper 45, written by James Madison, who is known as the \u201cFather of the Constitution\u201d: \u201cThe powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce. \u2026 The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people.\u201d Today\u2019s reality is the polar opposite of that vision. The powers of the federal government are numerous and indefinite, and those of state governments are few and defined.<\/p>\n

If confirmed, Brett Kavanaugh will bring to the U.S. Supreme Court a vision closer to that of the Framers than the vision of those who believe that the Constitution is a \u201cliving document.\u201d Those Americans rallying against Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation are really against the U.S. Constitution rather than the man \u2014 Judge Kavanaugh \u2014 whom I believe would take seriously his oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>Was Madison misinformed or just plain ignorant about the powers delegated to Congress? Before we answer, let\u2019s examine statements of other possibly \u201cmisinformed\u201d Americans. In 1796, on the floor of the House of Representatives, William Giles of Virginia condemned a relief measure for fire victims, saying the purpose and the right of Congress is to attend to not what…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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One of the best statements of how the Framers saw the role of the federal government is found in Federalist Paper 45, written by James Madison, who is known as the \u201cFather of the Constitution\u201d: \u201cThe powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-377032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}