Duties of Congress

7 Oct 2009 by John Conway
Fundamental #23

Here are the powers granted to the Seat of the Government of the United States located in Washington D.C..

Section 8
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and
Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general
Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be
uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and
with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject
of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money,
 regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix

 the
Standard
 of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin
of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited
Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings
and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and
Offenses against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning
Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be
for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of
 the land and naval Forces;

To provide
 for
 calling forth the
 Militia to execute the Laws of the Union,
suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for
governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United
States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers,
and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline
prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District(not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and
the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United
States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent
of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for
 the
 Erection of
Forts,
 Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other
needful Buildings; And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into
Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this
Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or
Officer thereof."
(italics mine)

"...(not exceeding ten miles square...")--This protects the Seat from any
interference from local or State governments.  It is also the only area
where it can pass any laws outside of the parameters it is limited to
in this Constitution.

    Eminent domain does not appear in our Constitution. The practice of this
government declaring land inside a  States borders as Federal Land is fraud.
They have to have the permission of a State to do that. 

    Here is how you know that Tyrants have taken over our government.
When a government begins
 to
 regulate your personal behavior,
 Tyrants are hard at work taking your liberty. Citizen, it is what tyrants do--period!
Tyrants hold you in utter disdain.  To them, this is their planet and you are
only here to serve their needs.  You are to be herded and harvested like any other
animal here on earth.  As long as you serve their needs, you are allowed to exist.
Fall out of favor, and you can be eliminated--125 million in this century alone.

We are the first and oldest republic that civilization has ever seen.  We agreed we would
have the rule of law.  When government starts regulating your personal behavior,
then you end up with the rule of force, another name for tyranny.  Preachers will
follow this lead every time. 

    When laws are passed to regulate something people are going to do even if there is a
law against it, then enforcement is necessary.  The drug laws can not be enforced.
That means
 that
 there is no limit to the amount of force to enforce them.  Prisons have
rehab for the inmates that get hooked on drugs--IN PRISON! Think about where these drug
laws are leading to, A PRISON COUNTRY!

    More importantly, find in the above where this Federal Government was given
the power to regulate a citizen's personal behavior. As I have said before, if it is a war
on drugs, we should be fighting it with lawn mowers.  No, it is a war on our liberty--
WORLD WIDE!

"...foregoing Powers..."  That is the limit of the ability of this government in D.C.
to make laws.
 It can only make laws to bring what is stated here in this article to fruition--period!

The transients occupying this government are playing the, "lets rule the people and
take their production to do it, under the guise of taking care of them." 

"Government will take away your Liberty under
 the
 guise of doing something
good for you."  Thomas Jefferson

They are going to give you free health care.  Do that, and they now have
power over life and death.  Notice it isn't "medical" care, but "Health Care."
That means "MENTAL HEALTH."  The thought police come if you aren't complying my fellows.
Have an ice cold 'Thorazine Spritzer'for breakfast.

P.S. In the rest of the Constitution, government was granted one more duty to perform,
the power to make Treaties.  That comes to a total of twenty (20) duties this Federal
Government is to perform for the States.

Are you understanding the importance of our Constitution yet?

Citizen Conway
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