"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it�" [emphasis added]

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce � the powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which � concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order �and prosperity of the State."

• Does the federal government have authority to issue patents & copyrights? Yes! How do we know? Because Art. I, Sec. 8, cl. 8 delegates this power to Congress.
• Does the federal government have authority to institute social security, food stamps, Medicare, aid to families with dependent children, and obamacare? No! How do we know? Because these are not listed among the enumerated powers delegated to Congress.

• May Congress lawfully create, and appropriate funds to, the federal Departments of Education, Health & Human Services, and Agriculture? No! Because these are not constitutionally authorized offices!
• May Congress levy taxes to implement obamacare? No! Because the Constitution does not delegate power over medical care to the federal government! [8]

• But in our brave new world, people are no longer obligated to support dependent family members - everyone just goes on a government program. That is what Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, obamacare, are about - relieving people of their Responsibilities imposed by God to themselves and to their own families.
• Such programs also increase the size and power of the federal government. That's how we got the Frankensteinian monster it is today.

• Provide for our needs; and
• Protect us from the risks and uncertainties of Life.

So today, we are laboring under the ridiculous notion that we have a whole host of "rights" to stuff which is paid for by other people: the "right" to a free public school education; the "right" to a fair wage, paid vacations, maternity leave, and equal pay for equal work; the "right" to an income for when you are old, unemployed, sick, disabled, or whatever; a "right" to a "decent" standard of living including "adequate" food, clothing, housing, medical care, and other social services. And let us not forget the "right" to free cell phones, the "right" to free birth control, and the "right" to free abortions and abortifacts! What's wrong with all these "rights"? What they all have in common is a claimed "right" to live at other peoples' expense. They elevate parasitism into a "right". All these handouts must all be paid for by someone. And unless other people pay for these freebies voluntarily, the money must be taken from them BY FORCE. So it turns some of us and our grandchildren and great grandchildren into plucked geese. That is why the welfare State is evil, immoral, and rotten to the core. And it is operated by politicians who seek only more and more power for themselves. THIS is why we are all at each other's throats. The people who are getting the handouts want more! The people who have been paying are sick of paying for the welfare parasites who sit at home watching their big screen TVs eating junk food - all of which is paid for by those who work, along with those who haven't even been born. God NEVER gave us the "right" to demand that other people be forced to pay our living expenses and give us free stuff - cell phones and abortion pills! God NEVER gave us the "right" to force others to subsidize our own failures, vices, weaknesses, or irresponsibility. Two of the 10 Commandments deal with the sanctity of other peoples' property. Not only are we forbidden to steal other peoples' stuff, we are forbidden to covet it.

Throughout the Bible, God's Laws uphold the sanctity of private property. So! All these man-made Anti-rights negate the God-given Rights because they steal our Property and our Liberty. The welfare State - socialism - communism - fascism -obama's blather about "redistribution" and "fairness" are evil and immoral because they are based on a violation of God's Laws granting us Liberty, upholding the sanctity of private property, and condemning envy and theft.

We must repent. We must return to God, our Founding Principles, our Constitution. We must acknowledge that the present system cannot continue; and that everyone's favorite "safety net" programs - Social security and Medicare - have done much to destroy The Family and the concept of Personal Responsibility. The Bible, which we have spurned for a very long time, tells us that families are the primary "welfare" institution. For a very long time, families actually did take care of one another! Elderly parents died at home with their children. But today, people see it as the responsibility of the "government" to care for elderly people - to provide them an income and pay their medical expenses. And when they can no longer take of themselves, they are put in nursing homes where they die � alone. Social security and Medicare are evil - they corrupted us and destroyed our families. They are bankrupt and filled with fraud. Politicians use them as a tool to manipulate the gullible. Still, many of our Senior citizens have become dependent on these programs. So we must phase out these unGodly and unconstitutional programs in an orderly manner. All taxes need to be reduced dramatically so that people have more money to set aside for themselves and their own families. The Estate Tax should be eliminated. In the Bible, the eldest son got the double share of the inheritance because it was his prime responsibility to care for his aged parents. We must pull together with our families. We must rediscover Personal Responsibility! Until we were corrupted by the Progressives and their evil programs, we were a remarkable People characterized by "goodness". PH

Endnotes:

1. Read the Constitution! "Charity" is not an enumerated power! James Madison said, in opposition to a proposal to give aid to French emigrants, that he could not undertake to lay his finger on that article in the Federal Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 3^rd Congress, 1^st Session, Jan. 10, 1794, p. 170-171.
2. People in the federal government now do whatever they want with our lives, liberties, property and persons [TSA agents feel us up, the Executive Branch will control our access to medical care, etc.]. The federal government has become destructive of the purposes for which it was created; and since it is violating our Constitution, is ruling without our Consent. Hence, it is illegitimate.
3. Alexander Hamilton referred to the federal government as our "creature" in Federalist No. 33 (5^th para); and Thomas Jefferson called it our "creature" in The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 (8^th Resolution).
4. For a discussion of Congress' Enumerated Powers, go here. For the enumerated powers of the President, go here. For the enumerated powers of the federal Courts, go here.
5. Get a pocket copy of our Declaration of Independence and federal Constitution. Using different colors, highlight all references to God, the enumerated powers delegated to Congress, the enumerated powers delegated to the President, and the enumerated powers delegated to the federal courts. You will be amazed. Then prepare another highlighted copy and send it to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
6. God gave us the Right to hunt for food and to use arms to defend ourselves. Jesus commanded his disciples to sell their cloaks and buy a sword.
7. Most of the criminal laws Congress makes for the Country at large - all drug laws, all laws which pretend to restrict gun ownership, whether sports figures take steroids, etc., etc., etc., are unconstitutional as outside the scope of the powers delegated to Congress in the Constitution.
8. What is so appalling about John Roberts' opinion in the obamacare case is that Roberts in effect says that Congress may tax for any purpose whatsoever. 9. The purpose of the 14th Amendment was to protect freed slaves from Southern Black Codes which denied them basic God-given Rights. But the 14^th Amendment has been perverted by judges on the supreme Court to create a "right" to kill unborn babies, a "right" to engage in homosexual sodomy, and probably, a soon to be created "right" to homosexual marriage. Do you see? Human judges claim the power to create "rights." And note how these judicially fabricated "rights" are contrary to God's Laws.
10. Many of the cases federal courts decide are outside their constitutional authority to hear: They have no authority to review STATE Laws and STATE Constitutional provisions respecting prayer in schools, posting of the Ten Commandments in public places, abortion, homosexual acts, and homosexual marriage. The supreme Court has long been seizing powers which Art. III, Sec. 2, cl. 1, doesn't delegate to them. Those judges should be impeached, tried, convicted, kicked off the bench, and prohibited from ever again holding federal office (Art I, Sec. 3, last clause, & Federalist No. 81, 8th para). PH.

Publius Huldah is a retired attorney who now lives in Tennessee. Before getting a law degree, she got a degree in philosophy where she specialized in political philosophy and epistemology (theories of knowledge). She now writes extensively on the U.S. Constitution, using the Federalist Papers to prove its original meaning and intent. She also shows how federal judges and politicians have ignored Our Constitution and replaced it with their personal opinions and beliefs.h

E-Mail: publiushuldah@gmail.com

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