The Question remains where did WE lose it
powers granted congress by the constitution
"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;
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 Offenses 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 Erection 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."
I am still being force to accept and or pay for socialist health care/put up with bands on firearms and the list continues on. The constitution was put in place to limit the power of Federal government and to guarantee they keep state powers within the confines of the constitution. Now who is left holding the bag for the Bill of rights? We are, the bill of rights is not law nor is the constitution, both of these documents are a set of ideals that our laws are written around and we need to be willing to hold our, yes our, government to them. The general populace seems to have forgotten that we are the government; they want to focus on one individual(POTUS) when the problem is much broader.
Two Articles in the Bill Of Rights that seem to get overlooked all too often in my opinion are;
Article 11. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
And
Article12. 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.
We need to stand for all of it not just the parts that suit us at any given moment. Many things go on in this country that I do not agree with, I do however stand up for and believe that an individual maintains the right to do and say as they please as long as it falls within the scope of things afforded to all, and does not trample my rights in the process.
Rant off for now
Pat