In the year of our Lord, 2012, the people of the republic are being oppressed by a government operating in reverse of the original design. When the republic was founded, the states ratified the Constitution and there by joined the union of states that created the federal limited government and the carefully delineated powers in Article I, Section VIII. To further limit the powers, Article IX of the Bill of Rights says The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. That means that whatever is outlined and which is proper for the government, shall not deny any other rights of the people. Then Amendment 10 says, 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. Simply, those powers not expressly given to the federal government by the Constitution or prohibited to the states by it, belong to the states and the people. In both the Ninth and tenth Amendments, lie the freedom and the liberty enjoyed by citizens in the republic expressed through the limitations on the federal government stated in Article 1, Section 8.

However that order is now reversed. The federal government rules the people instead of the other way around. That reversal came about with ratification of two amendments, the 16^th and 17^th, (income tax and direct election of senators, respectively). The 16^th allows Congress to tap the earnings of workers and investors without limit and the 17^th has eliminated the power of the respective state legislatures and governors to reign in the power of the Senate. Instead of the states being in control of state representation in Congress, the states have become nothing but puppets required to dance to the controlling dictates of the top down federal behemoth.

One of the most recent examples of the out of control, top down efforts of unwarranted and unconstitutional power is Eric Holder’s (Attorney General) attempt to stop Florida from purging voter rolls of the ineligible and dead people. He claims that is discrimination against minorities and a violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. No matter that the Act does not address ineligible voters, he says stop the purging. Not to create a diversion, the voting rights act should be eliminated since it intrudes on the powers of the states in violation of the 9^th and 10^th Amendments. The United States Constitution does not address ineligible voting rights. The 19^th Amendment only prohibits discrimination due to sex of the voter. All other voter eligibility issues are left to the states. In effect, the 19^th Amendment, while well intentioned as was the Civil Rights Act of  1965, both have created diminished power of the states while growing the power for the federal agencies, most of which are unconstitutional.  (Simply, if an agency isn’t provided for under Article I, Section 8, it is unconstitutional.)

The 15^th Amendment addressed the voting issue adequately saying, The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Section 2 says, The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Note that Section 2 only addresses the items in Section 1, the law itself.  That wasn’t good enough so the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act were passed without any legitimate authority of any kind to do so. Neither would have been possible except for the direct election of senators. The best word to describe the two acts is pandering to a minority for votes and it has only caused problems for all the states and the people by extending the power of the federal government.

Voting discrimination is wrong for those eligible to vote, but the states have a right to create the laws for voting which are in conformance with their respective state  constitutions and the amendments to the U.S. Constitution that address voting. Intrusion by Holder and any other federal official is both patently unconstitutional and wrong.

With the reversal of the method of governing which allows the federal level to be the dictator to the state as and to the people, the feds are able to shove the states around to accomplish whatever agenda they deem is necessary. The agenda necessary for Holder is the e-election of his buddy, the nut job (aka Barack Hussein Obama) so they have to stop the voter roll purging. Florida has said no to them. May more states tell Holder and the other goons to take a hike.

© 06-03-2012 DEC