“We must restore constitutional government”
Such is the ignorant nonsense of the TPM and others on the ridiculous right.
The United States is currently functioning under Constitutional government, nothing needs to be ‘restored’ – the notion is moronic, baseless idiocy.
The Federal government is functioning as intended by the Founding Generation: a Constitutional Republic whose citizens are subject solely to the rule of law, not men – as men are incapable of ruling justly.
A Federal government afforded by the Constitution powers both expressed and implied (McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)).
A Federal government whose laws are supreme, where the Supreme Court determines what the Constitution means, as authorized by the doctrine of Judicial Review and Articles III and VI of the Constitution, and where rulings by the Supreme Court become the law of the land, binding on the states and local jurisdictions, who have no ‘right’ to ‘nullify’ or ‘ignore’ Federal law or the rulings of Federal courts (Cooper v. Aaron (1958)).
That conservatives, libertarians, and members of the TPM disagree with Supreme Court decisions because those rulings might conflict with errant, wrongheaded conservative dogma is of no consequence and devoid of merit.
No the US government is not at all constitutional.
The current interpretations and procedures make the federal government not only supreme over the states, but in control of almost all laws, such as drugs, firearms, travel, censorship, taxation, etc., and all of that is not only completely wrong, but explicitly against the constitution.
First of all, we have to remember that the Bill of Rights are absolute restrictions on the federal government, that were contingent on any states even being willing to join the Union. So violation of the Bill of Rights essentially nullifies the whole country. And things like the 2nd amendment are not just a statement of rights, but an absolute prohibition on any and all federal jurisdiction over weapons at all. So ANY and ALL federal weapons laws are completely and extremely illegal.
That is not just the BATF that is illegal then, but also the DEA, FDA, and all federal agencies that are not just advisory, except the few that are actually authorized by the constitution, such as the coast guard, ambassadors, the post office, federal reserve, and a few others.
Clearly the founders wrote the Constitution to make states supreme, not the federal government. There are very few areas where the federal government is at all authorized, and even fewer where the federal government is supposed to be able to over ride a state.
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