PAS
"PeterN" <peter.newnospam@verizon.net>wrote in message

PeterN
On 3/24/2014 10:33 AM, PAS wrote:

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PAS
The U.S. Constitution does not give any authority to the federal government to compete with private business. The founders were distrustful of government, and rightly so. The Constitution is designed to LIMIT the power of the federal government.

PeterN
You got it backwards. the Constitution is designed to grant certain limited powers to the Federal government.

We need go no further than the "savings clause." the Tenth amendment makes it clear that the federal government has only only the enumerated powers.

PAS
Perhaps it's a matter of semantics but enumerating limited powers to the federal government IS limiting their power which is what the Constitution does. The 10th Amendment does indicate that the federal government is limited to the powers granted to it by the Constitution. "The powers not delegated to the United Stated by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." To me, this makes it crystal clear the federal government has, for quite a long time, acted unconstitutionally and continues to. The bailouts, the ACA, and a whole host of others are unconstitutional.