Who favors going back to a Constitutional government?

[herald]

THIS IS WHAT OUR GOVERNMENT CAN CONSTITUTIONALLY LEGISLATE

Article 1 - The Legislative Branch
Section 8 - Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People.
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.



THIS IS WHAT ARE GOVERNMENT ACTUALLY LEGISLATES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budget
http://law-library.rutgers.edu/ilg/usfedlaw.html

[ruelle]

Everyone who wants to repeal all the progress made in the 20th century. Most people who thump the Bible or the Constitution are too stupid to understand either.

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[vaiveatoish]

I, part of the no-longer-silent majority, wholeheartedly favor restoring America back to the principles which helped make this nation the greatest on earth. Liberty and the pursuit of happiness only thrives when PEOPLE control the government, not the government controlling the people.

[lawly1]

Oh, really? How ironic the likes of you now want to repeal the 14th amendment because you think the pool is getting darker.
Yeah, you sure are for the Constituion until it comes with preserving the rights of minorities and whomever gross you out.
Patriotic my foot!

[osmont]

In order for this to work, we'd have to FIRE all the government, civics, U.S. History, U.S. Constitution and economics teachers, give them the date of the impending tests and tell them unless they pass with a C or better, they will have to hit the unemployment lines.

[newyddilyn60]

you bet.

[deangelo51]

I do and so do most people who love their country!

[parnell]

I do but I believe I'm in a small minority that does.

[tate8]

The "Elastic" or "Necessary and proper clause" To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Is the clause Congress uses to argue unless it is specifically addressed in the constitution, the constitution give them the power to legislate it.