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2012 March 30
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“That the people have an original right to
establish, for their future government, such
principles as, in their opinion, shall most
conduce to their own happiness, is the basis, on
which the whole American fabric has been
erected.... The principles, therefore, so
established, are deemed fundamental. And
as the authority, from which they proceed, is
supreme ... they are designed to be
permanent.... The powers of the
legislature are defined, and limited; and
that those limits may not be mistaken, or
forgotten, the constitution is written.” |
"Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the
scope of the constitution, and all means which
are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to
that end, which are not prohibited, but consist
with the letter and spirit of the constitution,
are constitutional. ...
[S]hould Congress, under the pretext of
executing its powers, pass laws for the
accomplishment of objects not entrusted to
the government, such [acts are] not the law of
the land." |
“[T]he framers of the constitution contemplated that
instrument, as a rule for the government of courts, as
well as of the legislature.” |
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2012 March 29
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"The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order, and prosperity is a power originally and always belonging to the states, not surrendered to them by the general government, nor directly restrained by the constitution of the United States, and essentially exclusive." |
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the
internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads,
ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. ...
Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description,
as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and
those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts
of this mass. No direct general power over these objects is granted to
Congress, and, consequently, they remain subject to State legislation." |
To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and to defeat the operation of the 10th Amendment, declaring that 'the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.' |
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2012 March 28
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"[Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake
of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the
'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause?' ” |
"If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything ... quilting bees, clothes drives, and potluck suppers throughout the 50 States." |
" 'Stare decisis' is usually the wise policy....
[b]ut where correction through legislative action
is practically impossible, this Court has often
overruled its earlier decisions..." |
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2012 March 27
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"I want to make one thing clear. This war against our constitution is not being fought way off in Madagascar or in Mandalay. It is being fought here—in our schools, our colleges, our churches, our women’s clubs. It is being fought with our money, channeled through the State Department. It is being fought twenty-four hours a day—while we remain asleep. How many of you Senators know what the UN is doing to change the teaching of the children in your own home town? The UN is at work there, every day and night, changing the teachers, changing the teaching materials, changing the very words and tones—changing all the essential ideas which we imagine our schools are teaching to our young folks. How in the name of Heaven are we to sit here, approve these programs, appropriate our own people’s money—for such outrageous “orientation” of our own children, and of the men and women who teach our children, in this Nation’s schools?" |
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2012 March 26
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"I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. If this be a just remark, it is unwise and improvident to vest in the general government a power to borrow at discretion, without any limitation or restriction." |
"The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face.
Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition." |
"When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and industrialists...acting together to enslave the world...Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is--the Fed has usurped the government." |
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