The 16 enumerated powers of Congress All else is unConstitutional and therefor null and void. The legitimate Powers of Congress The Congress shall have the power 1. 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 : 2. To borrow money on the credit of the United States : 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes: 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States : 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures: 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States : 7. To establish post-offices and post-roads: 8. 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: 9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court: 10. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations: 11. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water: 12. To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years: 13. To provide and maintain a navy: 14. To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces: 15. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions: 16. 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. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States , and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state Comments: THEY COULDN’T EVEN ABIDE BY THIS LAST LIMITATION. The District of Columbia exceeds the Constitutional limit by 54 square miles, excluding people therein the right of state citizenship. Barack Obama (D) Top Contributors http://images.opensecrets.org/obama_top_contribs.htm?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638 Contact Your Govt http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ For more info about Obama’s Private Army, google Healthcare legislation & Obama's Private Army And US Public Health Service Ready Reserve Corpse Patriot Freedom http://www.patriotfreedom.org/battlefield.php If a link above does not work, cut-and-paste to your browser. Please be aware that Barack Hussein Obama’s grandfather was a highly respected witch doctor with the Luo tribe. His white grandmother was VP at the Bank of Hawaii and she worked with and for Peter Geithner on other projects, Peter is the father of Timothy Geithner, Obama's choice of Treasurer of the US. We the People http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE . Barack Obama (D) Top Contributors http://images.opensecrets.org/obama_top_contribs.htm?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638 Contact Your Govt http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ For more info about Obama’s Private Army, google Healthcare legislation & Obama's Private Army And US Public Health Service Ready Reserve Corpse Patriot Freedom http://www.patriotfreedom.org/battlefield.php If a link above does not work, cut-and-paste to your browser. Please be aware that Barack Hussein Obama’s grandfather was a highly respected witch doctor with the Luo tribe. His white grandmother was VP at the Bank of Hawaii and she worked with and for Peter Geithner on other projects, Peter is the father of Timothy Geithner, Obama's choice of Treasurer of the US. We the People http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE . -- To join RichsRants, send email to: [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/richsrants?hl=en
