by Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host
I was asked, "I wonder, if
the Founding Fathers were alive today, what they would think about what is
going on in our country."
After he named a few issues, like
health care, some of the social issues, and federal regulations regarding
banking, environmental issues, and education, I responded, "They would
ask, 'Why is the federal government involved in those issues in the first
place?'"
The federal government was
established to address external issues, and conflicts between the States, and
nothing more. Internal issues are
supposed to be handled by the corresponding local government, be it the State,
County or City (depending on the issue).
There is no constitutional authority expressly enumerated in the United
States Constitution giving to the federal government the power to dictate to
individuals regarding health care, to dictate to the States how they are to
enforce immigration laws internally, to influence in any way the education
standards used by individual communities or individual families, any regulatory
power against private industries or any authority allowing the federal
government to influence the job market in any way outside of the issuance of
the currency.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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