Note that the Founders originally established the federal Senate to give the state governments a distinct voice / vote in the federal government. This is evidenced by Article I, Section 3, Clause 1.

“The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.”

However, before 1913, it seems that state sovereignty-ignorant voters were electing people to their state governments who were arguably as ignorant of 10th A. protected state powers as the voters were. This is evidenced by the fact that the state lawmakers unthinkingly ratified the ill-conceived, anti-state sovereignty 16th and 17th Amendments at the request of the corrupt, power-hungry Congress in 1913, essentially giving up control of the federal Senate, their only voice in the federal government. And its no surprise that the voters seemingly started using their new 17th A. powers to fill federal Senate seats with lawmakers who were as clueless about state sovereignty as the lawmakers that the voters had been electing to the state governments were.

So by the time that constitutionally clueless, big-shot spender FDR showed up on the scene in the 1930s, there was evidently not enough state sovereignty-savvy leaders left in the federal Senate to stop FDR from usurping state powers when he established his illegal New Deal spending programs.

Ignorance begs tyranny.

Note that the Founders originally established the federal Senate to give the state governments a distinct voice / vote in the federal government. This is evidenced by Article I, Section 3, Clause 1.

“The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.”

However, before 1913, it seems that state sovereignty-ignorant voters were electing people to their state governments who were arguably as ignorant of 10th A. protected state powers as the voters were. This is evidenced by the fact that the state lawmakers unthinkingly ratified the ill-conceived, anti-state sovereignty 16th and 17th Amendments at the request of the corrupt, power-hungry Congress in 1913, essentially giving up control of the federal Senate, their only voice in the federal government. And its no surprise that the voters seemingly started using their new 17th A. powers to fill federal Senate seats with lawmakers who were as clueless about state sovereignty as the lawmakers that the voters had been electing to the state governments were.

So by the time that constitutionally clueless, big-shot spender FDR showed up on the scene in the 1930s, there was evidently not enough state sovereignty-savvy leaders left in the federal Senate to stop FDR from usurping state powers when he established his illegal New Deal spending programs.

Ignorance begs tyranny.

That “general welfare” clause has been applied broadly. Yes, too broadly.

That “general welfare” clause has been applied broadly. Yes, too broadly.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” –Chief Justice Marshall, GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824) http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html

I actually thank God for Obama for the following reason. The federal government has been wrongly usurping state powers, and laying constitutionally unauthorized taxes, at least since the 1930s when constitutionally clueless FDR established his constitutionally unauthorized federal spending programs. Hopefully misguided Obama is the flu germ which, having been injected into Uncle Sam’s arm, will trigger the “immune system” of the sovereign states to destroy the phony powers long associated with the Oval Office and Congress.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” –Chief Justice Marshall, GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824) http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html

I actually thank God for Obama for the following reason. The federal government has been wrongly usurping state powers, and laying constitutionally unauthorized taxes, at least since the 1930s when constitutionally clueless FDR established his constitutionally unauthorized federal spending programs. Hopefully misguided Obama is the flu germ which, having been injected into Uncle Sam’s arm, will trigger the “immune system” of the sovereign states to destroy the phony powers long associated with the Oval Office and Congress.