Our Founding Fathers hated democracies. They extensively studied historic democratic governments and found that they always lead to tyranny and eventually fail.
The fatal flaw of democracies is that they will eventually passes so many laws and regulations and raises taxes to such an extent that the people will be oppressed, the economy will fail and then the country will eventually collapses.
In a Democracy, there is no limit to the size and scope the central government. If there is a perceived need, laws and taxes can be created to meet them.
In a Republic, Congress can only pass laws and generate taxes for a specific list of enumerated powers and responsibilities. Any Congressional powers or responsibilities not specifically enumerated fall on to the States or individuals to meet. (Constitutional Amendment #9 and #10)
The biggest power grab by Congress was to purposefully misinterpret Article I/Section 8/Clause 2 (The Commerce Clause) to give Congress broad general powers to basically pass any law and increase government spending to any level they want.
The Founding Fathers only put the Commerce Clause in the Constitution to give Congress the power to allow free trade between States. That's it.
Before the Constitution, we had the Article of Confederation, which killed inter-State commerce because of protective tariffs established by States. The Commerce Clause was only added to prevent this from happening. That's it. Period.
Article I/Section 8/Clause 17 does give Congress the power to pass laws and raise taxes ONLY in running the various Government Departments that are specified in the Constitution:
Department of Treasury
Department of Commerce
Department of Immigration
Department of Post Office
Department of Pattents
Department of Civil Justice
Department of Military Justice
Department of War
Department of State
Department of Navy
Department of Army
Department of Militia
Department of Transportation
Department of Internal Revenue
Department of Indian Affairs
Department of the Interior
Department of Maritime Affairs
Look at the list of Departments we currently have and then at the above list. Any Federal agencies that currently exist that are not granted under the Constitution are unconstitutional and should not exist without an amendment to the Constitution.
We need to restore America back to a Republic. All departments that exist today must either be disbanned, or a Constitutional amendment be made to justify the Department (like Deptment of Air Force) or the responsibility must be returned to the States or to the individual.
Only by doing this can America have any hope of survival.
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