It's Time for States to Secede from the Union
There is clear evidence that Congress, the White House, as well as the Courts, have vastly exceeded powers delegated to them by our Constitution. To have an appreciation for the magnitude of the usurpation, one need only read Federalist Paper 45, where James Madison the acknowledged father of our Constitution explained, "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will for the most part be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties and properties of the people; and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State."
Short of some kind of cataclysmic event liberties lost are seldom regained but there is an outside chance to regain them if enough liberty-minded Americans were to pursue Free State Project's proposal to set up New Hampshire as a free state. Free State Project (www.freestateproject.org) intends to get 20,000 or so Americans to become residents of New Hampshire. Through a peaceful political process they hope to assume leadership in the state's legislature and executive offices and reduce burdensome taxation and regulation, reform state and local law, end federal mandates that violate the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and restore constitutional federalism as envisioned by the nation's Founders.
Since there is only a remote possibility of successful negotiation with Congress, the Courts and White House to obey the U.S. Constitution, it is my guess that liberty could only realized by a unilateral declaration of independence - namely, part company - in a word secede. While our Constitution is silent about secession, there is clear evidence that our Founders saw it as an option.
On March 2, 1861, after seven states had seceded and two days before Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, Senator James R. Doolittle (WI) proposed a constitutional amendment that said, "No State or any part thereof, heretofore admitted or hereafter admitted into the Union, shall have the power to withdraw from the jurisdiction of the United States." Several months earlier Representatives Daniel E. Sickles (NY), Thomas B. Florence (PA) and Otis S.
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It is obvious the president was not given enough power under the Constitution. This is in part because Article II of the Constitution was written in a short period of time with little thought. Many presidents have had to make unclear decisions with little information about the circumstance in the Constitution and the president is beginning to take over the government due to increasing implied powers. However the president’s power has recently proven that it has outgrown the constitution and is swiftly evolving. The Constitution gave the president broad but vague powers, including the authorization to appoint judges and other officials with the Senate’s consent, veto bills, lead the military as commander and chief and make sure “that the Laws be faithfully executed.” Many of these powers however are shared with the Legislative Branch, and cause conflict within the government.
Yes, I think Congress has too much power. Because under the constitution, Congress has the most important power and that is to make/change laws. (The powers of Congress-http://www.ushistory.org/gov/6a.asp) In this paper I will explain to you how Congress has too much power by, it being split into two large bicameral legislatures, they have the power of impeachment, and they have the power to approve the spending of federal money.
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middle of paper ... ... By the beginning of February, six other states had decided to leave the Union: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. These seven states formed the Confederate States of America, and on February 18 Jefferson Davis was sworn in as its president. There were numerous peace talks on how to settle the dispute, but nothing worked.
Health records seem to be the one thing people don’t want others to know about. Nobody wants their friends or coworkers to know what kind of health issues they have. These issues are personal. In the editorial in The New York Times, “Give up Your Data to Cure Disease”, David B. Agus, a physician and Professor of Medicine, describes how health problems can be solved with the help of mass data from patients. He conveys his message that the public should allow doctors to use their medical data so they can find cures for diseases through a variety of rhetorical devices.
The United States consists of three branches: the executive, legislative, and judicial. Of these branches, the executive branch, led by the president, and the legislative branch, led by the Congress, work together to carry out policy-making through a system of checks and balances. No branch can exert more power than the other, as intended by the Framers of the Constitution. Therefore, the president and Congress must share a mutual relationship to lead the nation. However, how can one recognize when one branch bypasses the other? From 2008 to 2016, President Barack Obama has been widely criticized to have exercised excessive power that bypassed Congress. As a result, this led to the 2016 court case, House v. Burwell where Congress filed a lawsuit
The United States government is designed with checks and balances to ensure that no one branch can become more powerful than another. Though this may be the case, it is still possible that one branch of the our government can still be more powerful than the others. The equality of power in our government has constantly changed over the course of the life of the United States. Although these changes have occurred, we still have not made all of the branches equal and the inequality has been due to meet the demands of the time. For example, in 1938 our country was facing a depression and nothing was getting done. So, Roosevelt took it upon himself to give the Executive branch more power, to then in turn, help the country creep back out of the hole it had dug itself. After the country didn’t need the reform bills and the size of the government that Roosevelt had put it, things were then downsized and put into a more stable equilibrium. Though there were attempts to make everything equal, the Legislative Branch now holds the majority of the power, and is the most powerful branch that our government has.
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Big Data is a term used to describe the large volume of data whether structured or unstructured that inundates a given operation on a daily basis (http://www.SAS.com). Big Data consists of data sets that are so huge and complex that the customary data processing applications would not adequately handle them. Of late, the concept of Big Data has been used to describe the use of predictive analysis, user behaviour analytics and other complex data analytics techniques for the extraction value from data. The concept of Big Data can be understood through the description of the three V’s as advanced by Doug Laney, who is an industry analyst. First, Big Data can be understood in terms of Volume, whereby organizations collect large data from a variety
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Big data will then be defined as large collections of complex data which can either be structured or unstructured. Big data is difficult to notate and process due to its size and raw nature. The nature of this data makes it important for analyses of information or business functions and it creates value. According to Manyika, Chui et al. (2011: 1), “Big data is not defined by its capacity in terms of terabytes but it’s assumed that as technology progresses, the size of datasets that are considered as big data will increase”.
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