The United States Constitution grants very limited powers to the federal government as you point out. The vast majority of our federal alphabet agencies exercise power usurped from the states and the people. For instance, the Department of Education and the entire Department of Health and Human Services with all its subagencies, like the FDA, CDC, NIH, are all unconstitutional, along with the “Affordable” Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid. Well intended legislation passed by Congress, signed by a President, survivors of Supreme Court review and decades of existence will never make the unconstitutional legal. Besides the Guarantee Clause, the Constitution also gives us Article VI, Clause 2, the Supremacy Clause, which states “The Constitution, and the Laws of the United States in PURSUANCE THEREof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the SUPREME LAW of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.” Federal laws must be in pursuance and restrained by the limited power granted to the federal government, otherwise they are not-with-standing, or in other words: not laws, “sit down and shut up!”
Bad things happen because bad people are elected to the offices of President, VP, Senators and Congressmen. The character of the property exercising power is being reflected in their actions. The people bear the consequences.
The United States Constitution grants very limited powers to the federal government as you point out. The vast majority of our federal alphabet agencies exercise power usurped from the states and the people. For instance, the Department of Education and the entire Department of Health and Human Services with all its subagencies, like the FDA, CDC, NIH, are all unconstitutional, along with the “Affordable” Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid. Well intended legislation passed by Congress, signed by a President, survivors of Supreme Court review and decades of existence will never make the unconstitutional legal. Besides the Guarantee Clause, the Constitution also gives us Article VI, Clause 2, the Supremacy Clause, which states “The Constitution, and the Laws of the United States in PURSUANCE THEREof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the SUPREME LAW of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.” Federal laws must be in pursuance and restrained by the limited power granted to the federal government, otherwise they are not-with-standing, or in other words: not laws, “sit down and shut up!”
Bad things happen because bad people are elected to the offices of President, VP, Senators and Congressmen. The character of the property exercising power is being reflected in their actions. The people bear the consequences.