This is a corrected post of one I made earlier. The corrected one was deleted.
John Locke's Second essay Concerning Civil Government:
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.. Therefore, whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they (the officials of government) put themselves into a STATE OF WAR with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence. Whensoever, therfore, the legislative shall transgress this funamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly , or corruption, endeaver to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties and estates of the people, by this breach of trust THEY (the government officials) FOREIT THE POWER THE PEOPLE HAD PUT INTO THEIR HANDS... and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and ...provide for their own safety and security.
It is past time to return to the Constitution as written, limiting the powers of the central govt. For too long our officials have operated out of bounds, forgetting they work for us. I hope we can change this by the ballot and not resort to force. Stop messing with free enterprise and let our system work. Companies should be allowed to fail, not bail them out to further partisian objectives. Return power to the States. Very few govt. programs are nothing more than money pits. the Feds can't solve everything.
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This post could have been entitled - remove the Sotomayor recommendation.
It is time for the Federal Government to return to it's rightful place within the context of the U.S. Constitution. All powers not specifically given to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution are reserved for the states.
The federal government has been far over-reaching into the private lives of the U.S. citizens for too long now. It has been handing down mandates to the states when the opposite should be taking place.
Now that the states are standing up to take back their rights, and the citizens are taking back theirs; watch for the Supreme Court to rule against this. This is wrong and the people will not stand for this trampling upon the U.S. Constitution.
The federal government works for "we the people" and the exclamation point on how far this has gone has been placed by the Obama Administration. We have them to thank for waking the people up because they have awakened a sleeping giant. We will not go back to sleep.