Many of those who have been elected by the people of this nation to represent them in Washington have a disease called big government blindness, and it’s time to reign in an out of control government in Washington, D.C.
While I’ve always considered it more problematic with the Democrat Party, both parties are victims of big government blindness. The ultimate end of this affliction is the removal of citizen input from political and government decision-making. Unelected people from behind the scenes write laws too long for the legislators to read and too complicated to understand, and Congress is expected to simply give a nod of assent to them and then go to spinning their lies of why it's so good for us.
In order to reverse this unconstitutional process, it’s time we begin to look at what powers are available to the people to help cure this disease.
In establishing a government by which the States could function in a unified manner, the Founders wrote a Constitution that provided for three branches of government that would be subject to the people and their respective states.
Then, to help insure that the central government would be limited government over the states and the people, at the time the states voted to approve the Constitution, they also voted to approve ten amendments to accompany its passage.
As was stated in the preamble to these 10 amendments, which became known as the Bill of Rights: “The Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...”
The Constitution was written to establish and maintain a federal government that would be self-limiting. Rather than take away the power from the states that voted to become united, it provided the means for the states to make decisions that would, when and if it was necessary, stop a central government in Washington D.C. that was afflicted with big government blindness.
The 10th Amendment to the Constitution says: “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.”
And one of the powers of the states and the people is provided in Article V of the Constitution: “...on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, [Congress] shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments.” The best-seller book “The Liberty Amendments” by Mark Levin proposes 11 such amendments that would bring Congress and the White House back into line. Citizens of all these United States need to talk to their state legislators about voting for a national Amendment Convention to propose such amendments.
Rolf Yungclas is a recently retired newspaper editor from southwest Kansas who has been speaking out on the issues of the day in newspapers and online for over 15 years
