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Constitutional Amendments
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I would reinforce the 10th Amendment to prohibit the federal government from imposing unfunded mandates on the states or to otherwise coerce state governments to take actions against the popular will of the individual states. A balanced budget amendment sounds great but when crooked politicians control the federal purse strings as they do now, they will find away to circumvent any inconvenient amendment.

Our federal government, including the Supreme Court, has been ignoring the 10th Amendment for years. For example, Justice Scalia joined with liberals on the court in a case involving two California residents raising marijuana for their own medical use and in accordance with California state law. The court ruled that the Commerce Clause applied in justifying their ruling. The court should have declared that there can be no application of the Commerce Clause without proving that there was interstate commerce or at least intent to distribute across state lines.

Liberals ignore the amendment because respecting it would invalidate many of their favorite environmental and labor laws. Some conservatives like to ignore the amendment, as Scalia did, to justify the federalization of the war on drugs.

Another reason that the 10th Amendment is ignored in Washington is that it allows Congress to force states to raise taxes to pay for pet projects so that they do not have to raise taxes to pay for the projects. If the 10th Amendment were respected and properly enforced, the size of our federal bureaucracy would shrink dramatically.
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Constitutional Amendments - by congressman - 10-18-2009, 03:08 PM
Constitutional Amendments - by Hoot Gibson - 10-18-2009, 09:06 PM
Constitutional Amendments - by congressman - 10-19-2009, 12:34 AM
Constitutional Amendments - by thecavemaster - 10-20-2009, 05:19 PM
Constitutional Amendments - by congressman - 10-20-2009, 05:44 PM
Constitutional Amendments - by thecavemaster - 10-21-2009, 02:10 PM
Constitutional Amendments - by congressman - 10-21-2009, 03:53 PM
Constitutional Amendments - by Matman - 10-21-2009, 04:31 PM
Constitutional Amendments - by thecavemaster - 10-21-2009, 04:31 PM
Constitutional Amendments - by congressman - 10-21-2009, 05:03 PM
Constitutional Amendments - by thecavemaster - 10-21-2009, 05:11 PM
Constitutional Amendments - by congressman - 10-21-2009, 06:09 PM
Constitutional Amendments - by thecavemaster - 10-21-2009, 06:21 PM

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