Conservatives and/or right-wingers that love to quote the 10th Amendment how do the people vote on legislation?

in a republic?



The U.S. is a republic after all and not a democracy.







The 10th Amendment

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.Conservatives and/or right-wingers that love to quote the 10th Amendment how do the people vote on legislation?Well we could argue the fine points of what the word republic really means for days, but in the US system of government the people do not vote on legislation, our elected representatives and senators do. A "representative republic".





The quoting of the tenth amendment is never done in the context of the people's voice in government, but rather the federal government exceeding it's constitutional powers.Conservatives and/or right-wingers that love to quote the 10th Amendment how do the people vote on legislation?
That isn't the issue. The issue is whether the legislation violates the Constitution, which takes a major supermajority to amend. That is the protection for the people, a mere majority can't change the basic structure.



We vote in our reps but our reps each take an oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.



Obama took that oath twice.Conservatives and/or right-wingers that love to quote the 10th Amendment how do the people vote on legislation?The US is a Democratic Republic. Congress people are supposed to do what their constituents want. You know the breaks that Senators and Representatives go on? You think those are just for vacations? Those have always been around for this reason.
The majority of people in congress that vote on legislation don't even bother to read what it is they are passing. How can you believe they have bothered to read the constitution?Conservatives and/or right-wingers that love to quote the 10th Amendment how do the people vote on legislation?Just a bit of historical fact. but this is the preamble to the confederate constitution. "We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity 鈥?invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God 鈥?do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America" Each state should have the power to do what it wants without federal intervention.Conservatives and/or right-wingers that love to quote the 10th Amendment how do the people vote on legislation?
that's nice..however, it does not include acorn or seiu and their questionable methods......
The people vote on legislation through the representatives whom they have elected.Conservatives and/or right-wingers that love to quote the 10th Amendment how do the people vote on legislation?
Ok so a State like Alaska is sitting on billions of barrels of oil , how is it the right of the Federal Government to deny Alaskans their own oil ?
I'm aware of what the 10th Amendment says, and that we are in a Republic. My point is that has the far reaching effect on the economy as universal health care should not be decided on by the federal government. It should require a constitutional amendment, which requires it to be ratified by 3/4 of the states. It's too important of a decision to be left to the federal government alone.
The lobbyists control the government. Left, right or center.
[States *respectively, or to the people]



*respectively

Main Entry: re路spec路tive路ly

Function: adverb

Date: 1602



1 : in particular : separately %26lt;could not recognize the solutions as salty or sour, respectively%26gt;

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States(separately) OR the people. [As in the individual person]



Tenth Amendment "states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered." United States v. Darby,



~however~



[We have always understood that even where Congress has the authority under the Constitution to pass laws requiring or prohibiting certain acts, it lacks the power directly to compel the States to require or prohibit those acts. E.g., FERC v. Mississippi. . . . The allocation of power contained in the Commerce Clause, for example, authorizes Congress to regulate interstate commerce directly; it does not authorize Congress to regulate state governments' regulation of interstate commerce. Id. at 166. ]



The health care bill WILL be interstate commerce by any definition you use.



States will not have the power to excuse themselves.



Besides that,,, the 10th amendment itself grants the INDIVIDUAL the same rights as the States.



Therefore if a citizen of ANY state wants to participate in a federal healthcare program, they have that Constitutional right.
Those who bandy the Constitution around in their rants should also take the time to read Article 1, 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."



Welfare is defined as "health, well-being, happiness". That means Congress has the right to levy taxes to provide for the health care of its citizens. It doesn't have to be passed on to the states. End of debate.