States rights or totalitarian federal government.

 WHICH PATH WILL PRESERVE THE UNION?

WILL IT BE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM OR FORCED COMPLIANCE

We are witnessing  the greatest debate about the rights of individuals and states since the civil war. There is extreme pressure by many for the Federal government to have ultimate power over every aspect of our existence. Of course, it is always for our own good, we as individuals can not be expected to make good decisions for ourselves or can the citizens of individual states.

Much of the division in the country has been generated by a continuing expansion of federal government power over individual liberty and states rights to govern as those citizens decide. Much of these encroachments have been from a liberal interpretation of the constitution that used the interstate regulation clause to attempt to control everything by the Federal government. This ignores the part about only those powers specifically granted to the federal government are federal government powers, all other power shall remain with the states and individuals. Today the constitution is mostly ignored as irrelevant, the federal government seems to believe it already has ultimate power and will exert it whenever it pleases.

The constitution is simply the law for the Federal government and if changes are supported by the states and the people there is a process to amend the constitution, not short cut with a judicial ruling that is not supported by the constitution. If this principle would be adhered to there would be much more unity and peace in this country. The problem is that amending the constitution has proved to be time consuming and difficult, as it was intended to be.

Whether abortion, gay marriage, or any other controversial issue, a constitutional amendment would be the proper course. Most of these controversial social issues could not even be passed in state referendums, so they were implemented by judicial decisions. Decisions that had no basis in the constitution. It is obvious that there is a federal judge somewhere that rule on anything with a decision that someone wants.

We are now at a pivotal time when the Federal government and its vast bureaucracy aided by a complicit ultra powerful media would like to end all claims of state and individual rights by forcing its will on everyone about everything. We hear claims about social responsibility and global issues that only the federal government in its infinite wisdom can address. America was always a country that put individual rights first, many of those rights were intentionally protected by the constitution. If those rights are denied by the federal government or even a majority, this country will in actuality, no longer exist.