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Lacey
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Lacey asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

What should be considered State's Rights?

Please list the issues of daily life that you feel should be controlled by state government only and why.

Update:

Frank, where we run into problems is with the wording about providing for the general welfare? In our society what exactly constitutes the general welfare?

Then you have the section regarding the responsibility of state's to train and pay the militia. Are we to regard only the National Guard as the militia? How is the rest of our military supposed to be paid for? The States aren't going to want to do it out of their budgets, but the vast majority of the citizenry considers them to be a necessary line of defense.

People who complain about the size and scope of the Federal, or even State, government need to stop just bi*ching about them and start thinking in detail about what the duties of those governments should be and how to pay for the services they should be providing.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I don't know if anybody actually is going to read this but with these two sections most things can be reasonably interpreted to be constitutional

    The Congress shall have Power - To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

    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;

    To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

    To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

    To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

    To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

    To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

    To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;

    To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

    To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

    To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;

    To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

    To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

    To provide and maintain a Navy;

    To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

    To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

    To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

  • 1 decade ago

    Instead of listing everything let me just say everything should be up to the state. The Federal government should stay out of our lives as much as possible. Of course they should collect income tax and even that could be debated. You can not keep letting the federal government grow and get more and more control over the people. Your tax dollar should stay within the states.

  • ?
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    1 decade ago

    There's a lot not mentioned in the Constitution. You can't take it so literally, it is a living document.

    Aren't you glad there is an FAA everywhere you fly in the states?

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    the constitution explains this.

    read the 10th amendment.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Everything that isn't in the constitution... read it :)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Everything not listed in the constitution.... duh.

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