Constitutional Governance

We can no longer afford to see the government as a jobs-creating entity.

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When we talk about constitutional governance, it means a federal government, as the Constitution refers to as “the United States,” that operates within its prescribed, enumerated powers. The Constitution is a limiting document on the powers of the federal government. And the Tenth Amendment is very clear as to what happens with those powers not specifically designated to the federal government.

It is time that Washington, DC abides by the Constitution and returns to its (18) enumerated roles, duties, responsibilities, and powers found in Article I, Section 8.

I was born in 1961, and the debt of the United States was $463 billion. The current debt of the United States, 63 years later, is over $33 trillion, yes, trillion. You can data search this for your birth year. A simple question: what has been the return on the investment of borrowing this massive amount of money? Government basically exists to protect our life, liberty, and property. The preamble of the United States Constitution uses the active verb “provide” when it comes to the common defense. The more passive word “promote” is used when it comes to our general welfare. However, successive governing regimes — and this is bipartisan — have deemed it more important to “provide” for general welfare, and the result has been an exploding leviathan called the federal government.

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