‘Journalist’ David Shuster Says Constitution is ‘Baloney’
The typical liberal disrespect for the U.S. Constitution is always disgusting for patriotic Americans to watch.
However, the display of this contempt you see below in the video has a silver lining. Most liberals won’t come right out and admit they believe the Constitution is trash, but MSNBC’s David Shuster comes right out and calls the Tenth Amendment “baloney” here.
For you liberals and public school grads, this is the Tenth Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
David Schuster knew enough to look it up, but he doesn’t know much more than that about the Constitution.
He is so abysmally ignorant, he actually professes to believe that the enumerated powers of Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution are a blank check for the federal government to do whatever the heck it wants, tax as much as it wants, and spend as much as it wants.
Um, David, do you remember what the Tenth Amendment said about powers “delegated to the United States by the Constitution”? Yeah, that’s them here in Article 1 Section 8.
Do you see that stuff listed in Article 1 Section 8 like establishing post offices and roads, defending the country and such? These are the things the federal government is empowered to tax for. Nothing else. Nothing else. Let me repeat it in case you missed it the first time: nothing else.
The Tenth Amendment says if it isn’t in this list in Article 1 Section 8, what? All together now, class: it is “reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” That means the federal government has no authority to do it. That means when the federal government tries to do it, it is acting illegally. It–and every government official involved in passing illegal laws and enforcing illegal laws–violates the highest law of our nation: the U.S. Constitution.
Oh, and the “General Welfare Clause” isn’t a Santa Claus Christmas wish list that negates Article 1 Section 8 and the Tenth Amendment, either.
The founders who established our nation and wrote that Constitution were nice enough in their wisdom to make it crystal clear that the general welfare clause does not negate the enumerated powers or the Tenth Amendment:
The Constitution says, “Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, &c., provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States”. I suppose the meaning of this clause to be, that Congress may collect taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare, in those cases wherein the Constitution empowers them to act for the general welfare. To suppose that it was meant to give them a distinct substantive power, to do any act which might tend to the general welfare, is to render all the enumerations useless, and to make their powers unlimited. – Thomas Jefferson
Our tenet ever was…that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated, and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action; consequently, that the specification of powers is a limitation of the purposes for which they may raise money. – Thomas Jefferson
They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please…Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect. – Thomas Jefferson
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. – Thomas Jefferson
[Congressional jurisdiction of power] is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.” – James Madison
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
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.” – James Madison
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
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. – James Madison
Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. – James Madison
If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress. … Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America. – James Madison
Our constitution limits and restricts government by design, not empowers it. It is not a constitution which empowers the federal government to do anything not specifically prohibited, but rather restricts it from doing anything not specifically enumerated.
By the way, this means the liberals’ government health care scheme is ILLEGAL.
Newsmen are supposed to be smart guys. They’re supposed to be informed and educated.
David Shuster illustrates the sad truth that most of them are either as dumb as a box of rocks, or the biggest liars and propagandists the world has ever seen, because you have to be extreeeeeeeemly ignorant not to understand these fundamental truths about the American government.
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