WHERE IS OUR CONSTITUTION?

In the wake of a new presidential administration, many Americans are finally waking up! We fell asleep at the switch a long time ago. While we lay blissfully slumbering, many of our constitutional rights were usurped. The Federal Government has only those powers delegated to it in the Constitution - or at least that is what we all agreed to when we ratified the United States Constitution. Anyone think that those powers have significantly expanded to include powers that were specifically reserved to the States and the People, respectively?

We blindly trusted the Bush administration to do "what needed to be done" in order to fight terrorism. We largely ignored, by failing to ask the hard questions, any constitutional usurpation. Now, only in the light of something that matters to us - loss of economic prosperity - have we begun to wipe the sleep from our eyes. Yes, that's right, until we were hit in the pocketbook we weren't paying attention. Are we going to remain asleep during another administration?

Is the "bail out" constitutional? Does the United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 prohibit the bail out? Hmm ... Congress may tax and spend for three things. Is the bail out among those things for which Congress may tax and spend?

What about the United States now being the majority owner of significant industry? Essentially we have turned private industry into public industry. Not only does the United States now have a significant financial stake in what was once private industry, but the United States has unprecedented power to make decisions regarding those industries. Wow ... does this seem like a "free market economy" to you?

Articles regarding these subjects and more will be forth coming. Please feel free to email me at profesc.research@gmail.com and let me know the particular topics that interest you.