The Forgotten Amendment

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The Forgotten Amendment

 

Posted on August 24, 2013 by Josh Hallahan

 

A Brief History Lesson

 

What would become known as the Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775 and it did not end until the Treaty of Paris was signed by the United States and Great Britain in September 1783.

 

The first attempt to create a government for the thirteen colonies is often skipped over, probably because it could best be described as an utter failure. The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777 and were finally ratified by all thirteen colonies on March 1, 1781.

 

The Articles created a federal government so weak it was more of a figurehead than an actual functioning entity. This central government was not allowed to print money, make treaties with foreign governments, or interfere with the sovereignty of the individual states in any significant way. It took six long years for the Founding Fathers to realize the Articles of Confederation were a complete disaster.http://dcclothesline.com/2013/08/24/the-forgotten-amendment/

 

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States have the power to bypass the House and Senate, Bring necessary changes in our federal government

 

Restoring federalism

 

By Rolf Yungclas (Bio and Archives) Saturday, August 24, 2013

 

“Federalism is a basic concept of American government, in which the states are not merely regional representatives of the federal government, but are granted independent powers and responsibilities.”—definitions.uslegal.com

 

Distinctly different from a national government, a federal government presides over an association of states, each of which have their own government and laws and function independently from one another and from the federal government, as long as they are in compliance with the U.S. Constitution and federal laws.

 

Having just broken free from a government that had absolute authority over them when they were colonies, the Framers of the Constitution were not about to create a central government that had little to no input from the people it was governing. The Tenth Amendment made clear that the authority of the federal government to dictate to individual states what they must do was very limited, and most of the responsibility of civil government rested in the states as well as in the people themselves: “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.”

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