Current Events vs. Founding Documents

Entry 10                       Submitted by: Mark Musselman

Current Event
As reported by Us News and World Report in 2007:
“The incandescent light bulb, one of the most venerable inventions of its era but deemed too inefficient for our own, will be phased off the U.S. market beginning in 2012 under the new energy law just approved by Congress.”

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The power which Congress is taking to mandate which items we may purchase conflicts with the limited authority granted to the federal government by the constitution.

Founding Document

The Constitution, Tenth Amendment

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 the People:

The federal government does not have this power. Our country’s founders wisely gave the people the power to protect the Constitution when Congress exceeds its authority. But we must use it.