Federalism, of course, is an operational term which refers to the delicate balance between the State's power and authority and the powers granted to the Federal government. The reason that Federalism is such an issue is because we have a lot of elected officials who believe that the 10th amendment actually is not as important as the rest of the document. Of course, they also believe that the document is living, breathes on its own and is in need of food and human sacrifice, which begs the question does it have a living will? Must have, because liberals have been trying to kill it for the last 75 years. For education and for the sake of rational discourse, I am going to quote the tenth amendment. "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." Just so everyone knows, I carry a copy of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence with me wherever I go. I know, my wife thinks I am weird too, however, it is because I love when people say that "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is in the Constitution and I am able to do a little re-education. I digress, anyways, the tenth amendment kind of covers the whole Federalism issue, however, the problem always has been that this is the least known amendment and liberals treat it as if it doesn't exist. They can find the right to privacy and abortion on demand in the document, but they cannot READ the tenth amendment! State's have a lot of rights and only have certain things they cannot do on their own, like coin money. Turns out that all these things they cannot do are spelled out in the Constitution. It always surprises the heck out of me when people claim that the forefathers could not foresee what was going to happen in the future. They sure foresaw that the federal government would try to usurp their authority. I am not from the south, but they did have a point during the Civil War and it was not "we love slaves and hate Yankees," although, considering the liberals the Northeast keeps running for national office who can blame them for hating Yankees, it was that the Federal Government should stay in Washington and not try to run the State's business! For anyone who does not think that this is true. Look at the fact that even after the civil war, we had to pass three amendments to get rid of slavery and overt discrimination. So, yes today the Federalism battle is alive and well. Look at the Department of Education for example, talk about redundant and it costs more money for virtually no help to the State financial and educational structure.
Which brings me to the article about how Terri Schiavo's case. It turns out that some Conservative Republicans are complaining about how Federalism is going to be destroyed with Congress and President Bush doing what they did. Well, as I have already stated in previous posts, this would be a good argument if, under the tenth amendment, Congress did not have that authority. However, they do, therefore it is not something that is "reserved to the States" in fact it is "delegated to the United States" Congress by Article III, Section 2. I wish more liberals even Republican liberals cleverly disguised as "Conservative Republicans" by the AP would actually read the Constitution that they claim to defend or protect. Fortunately for us, their dangerous level of thinking has not spread to the courts, nevermind, or the American Universities, nevermind, well at least it hasn't spread to the normal American. We will always fight to protect that fragile document we so endear.
-Cincinnatus
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