What is that you say? Unconstitutional?? How can that be when we have had Socialistic Ideals in practice for quite a while now in this country. Just because it is happening, doesn't make it Constitutional. They at one time said Slavery was Constitutional, but now they are saying it again...this time it's all of us under the control of Government.
Socialism, this Bailout, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Social Security, Subsidies for Farms, Small Business, etc. etc...all Unconstitutional.
Still don't see it? Let me explain.
James Madison is the acknowledged father of the constitution. In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia. James Madison wrote disapprovingly, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
A Few Years Later Representative William Giles of Virginia, condemned a relief measure for fire victims. Giles insisted that it was neither the purpose nor a right of Congress to "attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require."
In 1827, Davy Crockett was elected to the House of Representatives. During his term of office a $10,000 relief measure was proposed to assist the widow of a naval officer. Davy Crockett eloquently opposed the measure saying, “Mr. Speaker: I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member on this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.”
In 1854, President Franklin Pierce vetoed a popular measure to help the mentally ill saying, “I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.” To approve the measure "would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.” During President Grover Cleveland’s two terms in office, he vetoed many congressional appropriations, often saying there was no constitutional authority for such an appropriation. Vetoing a bill for relief charity, President Cleveland said, “I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.”
James Madison said, in a letter to James Robertson, “With respect to the two words ‘general welfare’, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.” James Madison also said, “If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.” James Madison laid out what he saw as constitutional limits on federal power in Federalist Paper Number 45 where he explained, “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined . . . to be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce."
Thomas Jefferson explained in a letter to Albert Gallatin, “Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.”
The Fact that we have strayed so far from the Principles of the Constitution shows how many people are ignorant today of what is in the Founding Documents.
This is a direct result of the Socialists taking over our Education system. This was done in order so that they could later install their form of Government without protest from an ignorant populace.
So far they have succeeded. For how much longer is up to those of us that can see the truth, that understand the Constitution.
When President Obama, in the past, talked about how the Constitution should allow for more wealth redistribution it made plain his ignorance of the same documents that he is espoused to have studied. He was supposed to be a Constitutional Law Professor, but yet fails to grasp the most basic of Principles expressed in the Founding Documents.
Read the Constitution.....Teach your Children.....Your Friends...Anyone who will listen.....
Before the day comes when the Constitution is destroyed by the Same Ignorant Public it is supposed to defend.....