Undermining the Constitution

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....... the Commerce Clause of the Constitution,

which empowers it "to regulate commerce among the several States." This

clause and the General Welfare Clause are the two stand-bys for Congress

when it finds the Tenth Amendment in its way.

 

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Fond hope of Madison dashed



Madison fondly believed that the States would rise unanimously against any

aggression by the National Government upon their local authority (The

Federalist, No. 46):



"But ambitious encroachments of the Federal Government on the authority of

the State governments would not excite the opposition of a single State or

of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm. Every

government would espouse the common cause. A correspondence would be opened.

Plans of resistance would be concerted. One spirit would animate and conduct

the whole."



Those revolutionary worthies could not conceive of the pusillanimity of a

century and a half thereafter! The representatives of the people of the

States in Government have originated most of the invasions of the States.

 

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...... He named three companies which had borrowed of the Reconstruction

Finance Corporation and "now are being run by the Government."



That is what the corporation of Fascism is for -- to take over private

business.

 

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.....Every youth coming out of school, and every graduate from the assembly lines

of the universities, must be made to comprehend that the grant of power to

Congress by the Constitution "to lay and collect taxes ... to pay the Debts

and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States"

does not authorize (1) the creation of a corporation or ( 2) the lending of

the money of the taxpayer.

 

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.....Government out of bounds will not return



Thus, when Government has once fixed its foot in the door, it does not

withdraw. That is a fact to cause grief in the mind of the constitutionalist

But greater grief comes from beholding the complete lack of understanding in

the man of business of what is being done to him and to his country! The

Government at Washington, having multiplied by bureaus the number of its

feet until it is a centipede, now has a foot in the door of many commercial

and industrial concerns; of agriculture, of banking, of building, of

housing, of relief, of the schools, and of many other interests not within

its constitutional field.

 

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In creating the Home Owners Loan Corporation, Congress declared that it

"shall be an instrumentality of the United States." But it could not be made

so by a declaration if its functions were not to be governmental, as the

functions of the banking corporation were in the case arising in Maryland.

Congress gets power, not from its own declarations, but from the

Constitution only. Nor can its proclamation of an "emergency," like that in

the National Labor Relations Act, endow it with power not specified in the

Constitution.



This brief account of the origin and works of the Reconstruction Finance

Corporation shows the great danger of any break in the levee of the

Constitution. The flood will go beyond control. The damage to taxpayers and

the Republic by that Corporation is beyond estimate.

 

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I hope that by posting parts of this book;Thomas James Norton: Undermining the Constitution that some will endeavor to read the entire book as I am.
And furthermore to draw conclusions and see how long these "progressives" have been at work.
For the true argument being, is our constitution a living breathing document changing with the times? Or are the values that our country is based upon
timeless and cannot be changed.

" For we hold these truths to be self evident....."

more to come.....

 

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ch. VIII

It may be that those unconstitutional power projects were in the mind of

General Dwight D. Eisenhower when, as President of Columbia University, he

spoke on February 10, 1949, to a group of students about "a creeping

paralysis of thought" which leads to dictatorship. Addressing 130 leaders of

students in preparatory and high schools, the General, who had opportunity

to learn all about the way things go in Washington, said:



"There is a kind of dictatorship which can come about through a creeping

paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures of

Government, and along with those paternalistic measures coming a surrender

of our own responsibilities and, therefore, a surrender of our own thought

over our own lives and our own right to exercise our vote indicating the

policies of our country."