Why have Republicans/Tea Party/Conservatives started attacking the Constitution over the Arizona 1070 law?
Transcript of the Constitution : http://****archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
Article I, Section 8:
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;
Article Six:
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under 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 Offences 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;
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 in which the Same shall be, for the ******** of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;-And
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.
Article Six:
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
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Because they know that the Justice Department is on the side of right on this one.
The Supremacy Clause in the Constitution is very clear: Federal laws override state laws.
And when it gets to the Supreme Court, the Republicans know that the Justices on the bench will have to uphold the Constitution and rule that the Arizona law is unconstitutional.
I seem to be unable to find any thing in your rant linked to Republicans doing as you claim. Nice troll, but you get a fail on this one.
Wow all that time and effort and nothing to substantiate your question or accusation. Not even a nice try. I would delete this if I were you, but then again it just proves liberals are clueless
Another Troll question. Are all liberals 12-15?
Have you ever heard of Lysander Spooner? I didn’t sign the constitution.
James, can you provide the talking points for their attack as opposed to enumerating points in the Constitution?
We know they support the Arizona law and a court decision will be coming down later this year. That decision and the ones following it will be appealed. I wonder whether it’s illegal entry that they dislike so much or Hispanics, I think it’s the latter. See Chandler Roundup 1997 & their attitude toward the Martin Luther King holiday.
They could have gone at employers years ago but they didn’t, wonder why.
I’m glad you can insight some of the constitution. A lot of that you wrote doesn’t go with your question. The tenth amendment of the Bill of Rights separates federal and state power. Other words it’s a line where states can’t cross on federal law and where federal can’t cross on states rights.
When this goes in front of the supreme court it will be deemed constitutional by a 5-4 vote.
Now where was you when the White House was trying to keep Fox news out of it’s media pools. That went against the 1st amendment Freedom of speech and freedom of press.
Where was you when the White House was making threats to BP if they don’t give them the money they will take it. Now that goes against the 5th amendment you can’t be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law) That means they have to be sued in a court of law and lose.
There’s no where in the constitution says the federal government can force you to by insurance or any other private product. 10th amendment 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)
The same 10th amendment that’s going to deem the Arizona law constitutional will deem Obama care unconstitutional.
Why doesn’t the Federal Government fulfill it obligations under Article IV Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Of course there is also Article I section 10:
No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
The flow of illegal immigrants easily qualifies as an invasion.