{"id":24714,"date":"2015-05-23T07:08:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T14:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=24714"},"modified":"2015-05-23T07:08:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T14:08:20","slug":"the-delusion-of-limited-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/the-delusion-of-limited-government\/","title":{"rendered":"The Delusion Of Limited Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notbeinggoverned.com\/the-delusion-of-limited-government\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/Constitution.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>NotBeingGoverned.com<\/a> | The fuzziness problem becomes even more troublesome as we move into words of a more abstract nature, such as we find in the United States Constitution. This instrument of allegedly \u201climited powers\u201d contains a preamble that defines its purposes as the creation of \u201ca more perfect Union,\u201d which will \u201cestablish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty.\u201d The specific grants of power to Congress are then spelled out in Article I, which include, among others, the \u201cPower 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.\u201d How do such words limit governmental power? What more would any tyrant need to justify his actions than these?<\/p>\n<p>But Article I goes on to provide, among others, the power \u201cTo Borrow Money on the credit of the United States,\u201d \u201cTo regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes,\u201d and \u201cTo 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.\u201d Where, in such words, does one find any clearly defined restriction on government power? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notbeinggoverned.com\/the-delusion-of-limited-government\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Entire Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Butler Schaffer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NotBeingGoverned.com | The fuzziness problem becomes even more troublesome as we move into words of a more abstract nature, such as we find in the United States Constitution. This instrument of allegedly \u201climited powers\u201d contains a preamble that defines its purposes as the creation of \u201ca more perfect Union,\u201d which will \u201cestablish Justice, insure domestic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[1063],"class_list":["post-24714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}