Jacksonville’s Moral Constitutional Patriots
Speak
A
Response By Dr. Gene A. Youngblood
Presentedat
City Council Meeting of 5/22/2012
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introduced ordinance 2012-296.This bill is cloaked
under the disguise of equal
opportunity and
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DFLers want U.S.
constitutional amendment declaring that
corporations aren't people, after all
By Joe Kimball
MinnPost.com
04/23/12
It's not only Republicans looking for
constitutional amendments these days.
DFLers (Democratic Farmer Labor Party members)
in the Minnesota House and Senate have
introduced bills asking Congress to call a
constitutional convention to propose an
amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would
clarify that corporations are not people.
There's been much consternation on this point,
particularly after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
in a corporate political spending case that
corporations have a First Amendment right to
free speech.
Is the Health Care
Law Constitutional? No, Strike It Down
DAVID J. PORTER, VISION FOR CENTER & VALUES
Note: A version of this article
first appeared in the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette. Neither Porter nor his firm are
involved in the ACA litigation.
This summer, the Supreme Court will decide
whether Congress violated the Constitution when
it enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act, which contains an “individual mandate”
requiring virtually every American to purchase
health insurance. Based on the Constitution’s
text and structure, and judicial interpretations
of the relevant provisions, the mandate should
be struck down.
Pennsylvania
is one of 26 states to have attacked the ACA’s
constitutionality. They seek to uphold the
Constitution’s basic division of power between
the national government and state governments.
The framers and those who ratified the
Constitution withheld from Congress a plenary
police power to enact any law that it deems
desirable. Instead, the powers granted to
Congress in Article I of the Constitution are
limited and enumerated. The 10th Amendment
emphasizes this structure by affirming that all
powers not given to Congress “are reserved to
the States respectively, or to the people.”
Given that background, the states’ argument
against ACA is simple: Even under the broadest
interpretation, Congress’ enumerated powers do
not authorize a federal law that forces
individuals to purchase health insurance.
President Obama
yesterday played a violent game of kickball with
the US Constitution, making a number of
high-level “recess” appointments — even though
the Senate isn’t actually in recess.
Presidents have
the right to make temporary appointments when
Congress is away from Washington,
of course, and both parties have used that
power.
But Obama is the
first president to declare that he, and he
alone, can decide whether the Senate — which
must confirm his appointments — is actually
meeting.
Don’t Wait for
the Supreme Court; Freeze ObamaCare Now
by Dr.
Susan
Berry
October 9, 2011
Many are focused on the Supreme Court’s take-up
of the question of the constitutionality of the
individual mandate clause in Obamacare as the
means to stop President Obama’s signature
legislation. However, some of the law has
already been funded and put into place, and,
until the High Court rules- and if it rules that
the individual mandate is unconstitutional-
there are already clear plans to change
healthcare in this country as we know it.
Bill McCollum, former Attorney General of
Florida, who led the multi-state lawsuit
challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare,
wrote an editorial in Politico, in
which he urges Congress to pass a bill, brought
forward by Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas), which
would essentially “freeze” the implementation of
the law in its tracks, a critical move since
Obamacare’s costs, including economic, quality
of care, and personal privacy aspects, are
catastrophic to the nation. Knowing that, even
if Congress passed a “freeze,” the president
would not sign it, Attorney General McCollum
recommends that the new Joint Select Committee
on Deficit Reduction, or “supercommittee,” take
it up as a realistic, and relatively expedient,
way to cut the deficit.
In light of the fact that there will still be
some time before the Supreme Court will hear the
case against Obamacare, the joint committee must
consider the multitude of evidence that now
exists about the costs of this program.
According to Attorney General McCollum, in just
2012-2013 alone, for example, Obamacare owns $50
billion in tax increases, including $20 billion
in payroll tax hikes on small businesses. The
law institutes 159 new federal programs, costing
$19 billion, and the controversial Independent
Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), which will have
never-before-seen power- no Congress needed- to
make cuts to Medicare.
The fact is the Obama administration, under the
direction of Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS),
is rolling out Obamacare in spades now in order
to make it much more difficult to scale it back.
We can just hear the Obama administration now: You
want to stop it…now? You mean you want to waste
all the money and time we’ve already spent to
insure millions of people?
As seems to be often the case, the Obama
administration says one thing and does another.
Secretary Sebelius is apparently out there,
attempting to calm conservatives that this is
not a government takeover of healthcare, and
that she will invite more time for the American
people to “speak.” Yet, as she herself speaks,
AP is reporting that work on the benefits
package is already well under way within DHHS,
and a major lobbying campaign to shape the final
package is about to be initiated.
In order to ensure no one is “costing” too much
in healthcare dollars, the federal government
will need information about all of us. That’s
where those laptops our doctors are carrying
around will come in handy. Just one click, and
all our private health information is off to the
feds, so they can do their job of “overseeing”
our healthcare.
The implications for this takeover of private
health information are mind-boggling. What if
you or a family member seek mental health care?
Does the federal government need to know that
you have had an addiction to drugs or alcohol?
Does it need to know you had an affair? Does it
need to know that your teen made a suicide
attempt? If you are involved in any forensic
matter, will the courts be more easily able to
obtain your personal health information, for a
case against you, now that the federal
government already owns it, and it is no longer
your private information? Is the federal
government capable of keeping anything private?
There are already many instances which reflect
that it is not.
Attorney General McCollum is right on the
money. Our nation cannot wait to hear the
Supreme Court’s decision. We cannot even be sure
of the nature of that decision. According to the
Constitution, Congress is the body of elected
representatives of the American people.
Obamacare needs to be stopped by our elected
representatives- dead in its tracks.
SINCE 1789 The U.S. Constitution
"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to
the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not
cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years,
may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution,
for if the American Constitution should fail,
there will be anarchy throughout the world."
Daniel Webster James
Madison has been called the
Father of the Constitution. James Madison "got
it" in constructing a general (federal)
government that consisted of only enumerated
powers, that other powers belonged to the people
and to the states. Further, he constructed that
federal government to have a number of checks
and balances to further keep it from becoming
too powerful.
Here are just a few of his quotes to ponder and
absorb:
"I believe there are more instances
of the abridgement of freedom of the people by
gradual and silent encroachments by those in
power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
"If
Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it
will be in the guise of fighting a foreign
enemy."
"If
men were angels, no government would be
necessary."
"Americans
have
the right and advantage of being armed - unlike
the citizens of other countries whose
governments are afraid to trust the people with
arms."
"It
will be of little avail to the people that the
laws are made by men of their own choice if the
laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read,
or so incoherent that they cannot be
understood."
How can anyone read these quotes
and believe that the Constitution was not
written to protect free people in all times and
ages? ........... Click here to read
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The
COMPLETE TEXT
Of
the US Constitution
From
Cornell Law University:
Those who wrote our constitution created a
document that was understood and agreed upon by
all. If new laws passed with the same unanimous
support that the constitution received, there
would be FAR FEWER law books on the shelves of
legal libraries today.
Our founders realized that knowledge and
understanding ie. EDUCATION was required for
people to understand and sign onto to that
document that has been the model for so many
republics since then. To that educational end,
our founders wrote the Federalist Papers, to
elaborate upon the ideas and explain the
reasoning and value of the contract.
There's
little that's intelligent or informed about
Time magazine editor Richard Stengel's article
"One Document, Under Siege" (June 23, 2011).
It contains many grossly ignorant statements
about our Constitution. If I believed in
conspiracies, I'd say Stengel's article is
part of a leftist agenda to undermine respect
for the founding values of our nation.
An organization that represents the 75 percent
of American citizens who want more control over
illegal immigration is calling for the
impeachment of Barack Obama over his involvement
in the transfer of weapons to Mexican drug lords
and his efforts to provide amnesty to illegal
aliens.
President Obama’s health care law received a
chilly reception Wednesday from a federal
appeals court that seemed wary of approving a
major expansion of government coercion over the
economic activity of millions of Americans.
Acknowledging they are breaking new ground in
considering this case, the three-judge panel of
the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sitting
in Atlanta questioned whether there is any
precedent in more than two centuries in which
the Supreme Court has upheld a law that forces
individuals to buy a private good or service -
in this instance, the individual mandate that
every American obtain health insurance.
“If we uphold the individual mandate in this
case, are there any limits on Congress‘ power
left?” said Chief Judge Joel Dubina, appointed
by President George H.W. Bush, who seemed most
hostile to the Obama administration’s defense.
The other two judges, both appointed by
President Clinton, peppered each side with
questions, but signaled their own concerns about
the lack of specific precedent for upholding
this type of mandate.
“I want to know, going back to the first
principles, is there anything out there that
actually suggests that Congress can compel a
private party to buy a private product on the
open market if they’re not disposed to do so,”
Judge Stanley Marcus said.
Wednesday’s nearly 2 1/2-hour hearing is the
third time an appeals court has heard a case on
the issue, which all sides believe will
eventually end up in front of the Supreme Court.
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