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Note that the problem with the Constitution is not actually the Constitution. The problem is, that as a consequence of widespread ignorance of the Constitution and its history, the corrupt federal government has been getting away with ignoring its constitutional limitations for quite some time...

God bless Jim Robinson! But I have a "technical" problem with Mr. Robinson's material. I feel that the people's "war" against the corrupt federal government can manifest itself in something as simple as voters giving members of the corrupt, Democratic Congress the boot in 2010. The key, in my...

Let's quit wasting each other's time Danke.

As I mentioned in the OP, Chief Justice Marshall put it the following way. "Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Chief Justice Marshall, GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824)

You must be a liberal troll. Regardless that you claim that I said the 16th A. is unconstitutional, you are ignoring post #4 in this thead. Yes, the 16th A. is constitutional. The fact that the 16th A. doesn't address previous tax statutes in the Constitution hints that there was possibly...

As I reflected in the essay, our grandparents where likely uninformed about state sovereignty, first when they were electing state lawmakers, then when they were electing federal senators.

Yes, the 16th A. is constitutional. But it remains that the problem with the 16th A., as I reflected in the essay, is that it makes it too easy for the corrupt federal government to lay constitutionally unauthorized taxes, particularly when neither citizens or state lawmakers are up to speed...

Attention Tea Party patriots, and anybody who is interested. You don't have to agree with my constructive critique of the Tea Party movement, but please consider it. One issue that I have with my conservative, activist Tea Party family is the following. While the Constitution certainly reflects...

Oops! That's my mistake. I thought I was in the Ron Paul forums.

Good point! But you seem to be rejecting the idea that the Founders made the 10th A. to officially reserve the lion's share of government power to serve the people to the states, not the Oval Office and Congress. So while the prime ministers of the US states don't have quite as much power as...

That's a good point! Widespread ignorance of the Founder's division of federal and state powers has been global since the Constitution, and later the BoR, were ratified. In fact, Thomas Jefferson had noted, long before TV was invented, that it was his impression that foreigners wrongly...

Consider the following problem for those who are uninitiated concerning state sovereignty. Regardless that Obama has much less power under the Constitution than kings or prime ministers, every time people see Obama on the same TV screen with a prime minister they are brainwashed to think that...

You may be overlooking the following. Regarding ANY government, the brighter crooks in any country, people smarter than you and me, have long since discovered that the easiest way to steal people's money is the following. You don't break into their houses to possibly get shot by the owner or...

Yes, it is a lot to absorb. That's why last line is "What a mess!"

I struggled with the information about the 14th A. presented in both the above video and this thread and here's my two cents. First, the original Constitution collapsed as a consequence of the Civil War, in my opinion; war is hell. I'd like to think that such an observation is common sense...