The federal government has appropriated many responsibilities that were never granted to it in the U.S. Constitution as written by our Founding Fathers. That Constitution has explicit provisions regarding the powers of the federal government, and anything outside of those provisions is reserved to the states and to the people.
What does the Constitution say on the role of the federal government? We the People said:
In order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
That sounds great, but it does not state specifically the role of the federal government. Fortunately, our Founding Fathers realized this and wrote amendments to the Constitution.
For the sake of brevity, allow me to paraphrase these roles: common defense, foreign relations, foreign and interstate commerce, protection of the citizens’ individual rights, establishing federal courts lower than the Supreme Court, copyright protection, coining money, establishing post offices as well as roads for the delivery of postal mail, national set of universal weights and measures, and the ability to raise revenue to perform these functions.
The Tenth Amendment states:
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.
What are our Founding Fathers saying with this statement? It is clear they are saying: Don’t Tread on Me. The federal government has morphed into an overbearing parent that says, “You have to do what I tell you because I said so.” Do Americans want their government to dictate what citizens can and cannot do?
The role of the Supreme Court is to uphold the Constitution of the United States and its current 27 ratified amendments. Now, with the recent leak of the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, left wing politicians and the media are in an uproar declaring that Constitutional rights are being taken away from women (but not men?)
But what does it really mean? It means that the Supreme Court is affirming it does not have the power to write federal law or confer constitutional rights that are not enumerated in the Constitution. The draft ruling explicitly declares that the people and their state legislatures have the right to decide powers not specifically enumerated by the Constitution.
Americans, in our busy lives, do not realize that the federal government no longer operates under the authority of that pocket constitution that we carry. The federal government actually operates under the Supreme Court's 246 years of rulings encompassing over 3,000 pages.
This has made those in power more brazen than ever. They use federal agencies to mandate edicts like wear a mask, take an experimental vaccine, etc. As long as it's upheld by at least five justices of the Supreme Court it then becomes part of the newly-expanded Constitution.
What will the federal government mandate and dictate next to its 330 million citizens? I don’t know about you but, I’m not waiting around to see. I am taking action now.
Article V of the Constitution gives us the power to shed the tyranny of an oppressive federal government. More than 11,000 amendments have been introduced in Congress. Thirty-three have gone to the states to be ratified, and 27 have received the necessary approval from the states to actually become amendments to the Constitution. Each of these 11,000 amendments originated from the consent of We the People.
The Convention of States Action (COSA) movement is making great headway in its effort to debate amendments to the Constitution. Amendments that would limit the power and reach of the federal government, limit federal spending, and impose term limits for federal officials. Nineteen of the 34 States needed to call a Convention of States under Article V of the Constitution have already passed this resolution.
We need your help to race the torch across the finish line. This is a nation-wide, grassroots, peaceful revolution of We the People to contain our federal government and re-focus it on the original intent of the Constitution of the United States.
Please join us at this historic moment in time where we exercise the first-ever Article V call for a Convention of States. After 246 years, this call to action is needed now more than ever.
