Constitution Radio: Guest Host JASmius

Constitution Radio with Douglas V. Gibbs on KMET 1490-AM at 1:00 pm Pacific (live).  Catch the program online at KMET 1490-AM, or the podcast later on Sound Cloud.

While Doug is working with Birth Choice Temecula at their Fall Festival, JASmius has the reins today on Constitution Radio.

Here's today's AllStar Collision Big Stories of the Week:

✅ A Republic

http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2017/10/reader-lets-focus-on-election-process.html

✅ Trump versus Fake News

http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2017/10/trump-challenges-fake-news.html

✅ Trump Decertifies Iran Nuclear Deal

http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2017/10/trumps-rejection-of-iran-nuclear-deal.html

✅ Marxism in the name of Regionalism

http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2017/10/community-choice-aggregation-marxism-in.html

✅ Trump At Values Voter Summit: We Worship Go, Not Government

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/13/557459193/trump-set-to-address-values-voter-summit-for-first-time-as-president

✅ Congressional Alzheimer's Medications

https://www.statnews.com/2017/10/11/pharmacist-congress-drug-delivery/

✅ California's Pronoun Legislation

http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/06/california-can-now-jail-people-for-misusing-gender-pronouns/

✅ America's Dual Constituency

The American System’s dual constituency is a system where both the people and the States are citizens of the union.  The arrangement creates two separate bodies of voters.  A dual constituency is a prominent example of what makes the American System truly exceptional.

Early in the history of the United States, the States’ voice was more prominent in the process.

• The States appointed the members of the United States Senate.  The practice changed after the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913.  The States followed the model prior to the 17th Amendment by allowing the counties to appoint the members of the State Senate.

• The States appointed the electors who would vote for President of the United States.  The gradual change towards democracy began as a result of the urgings of Andrew Jackson, who believed the United States should be a pure democracy.  By 1828, all but a couple States’ electors voted in line with the popular vote of the States.

• The States were the final arbiters of the United States Constitution, not the federal courts.  This has been changed by judicial review.

• State militias enjoyed a dominant position in the protection of the States, both from invasion, and from the potential tyranny from a central government.  There is a current attempt to federalize all State militias (including the National Guard).

• Only the States administered local issues through legislation and execution.

• Only the States paid a tax to the federal government in order to satisfy the latter’s annual budget, taxing the people separately to recoup the funds.  In this way, the States acted as a wall of protection between the citizens, and the federal government’s voracious appetite for tax dollars and unconstitutional spending.  This form of indirect taxation existed until the 16th Amendment altered the system to allow the federal government to directly tax the citizens.

• Interstate commerce was only a federal concern when there was a dispute between the States.  Otherwise, the federal government refrained from interference.

• County Sheriffs are our elected constitutional officers, and were the final protection against unwarranted federal policing activities.