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The
Parental Rights Amendment:
Transfers Authority Over Your Children to Federal Government
8 July 2013
If
politicians introduced a bill
mandating the slaughter of all human babies under the age of two years;
but
called it, “The Little Babies Protection Act,” establishment
conservatives and
unthinking people all over the Country would be clamoring for its
passage.
We
have become a shallow and easily
deceived people. If it sounds good on the surface, we are all for it.
We assume
the proposal will live up to its name. 1 We don’t trouble ourselves to
actually
read proposals and analyze them before we clamor for passage.
The
name, “parental rights
amendment” (PRA), sounds so good! But it actually strips parents of
their
God-delegated authority over their children, and transfers that
authority to
the federal government.
In
order to understand this, you
must first learn about “enumerated powers”.
Enumerated
Powers
When
WE THE PEOPLE ordained and
established the Constitution for the United States, We listed, itemized
–
enumerated – every power WE delegated to each branch of the federal
government
over the Country at Large. All other powers were retained by The States
or The
People.
James
Madison, Father of our
Constitution, says in Federalist No. 45 (3rd para from end):
“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 … concern the lives, liberties, and
properties
of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of
the
State.” [boldface mine]
Do
you see? We delegated only “few
and defined” powers to the federal government over the Country at
Large. These
are the “enumerated powers” actually listed in the Constitution. 2
These
enumerated powers over the
Country at Large concern:
Military
defense, international
commerce & relations;
Control
of immigration and
naturalization of new citizens;
Creation
of a uniform commercial
system: Weights & measures, patents & copyrights, money
based on gold
& silver, bankruptcy laws, mail delivery & some road
building; and
With
some Amendments, protect
certain civil rights and voting rights.
It
is only with respect to the
“enumerated powers” that the federal government has lawful authority
over the
Country at Large. All other powers are “reserved to the several States”
and The
People. 3
So!
Where in the Constitution did
WE THE PEOPLE delegate to the federal government power over children
and their
care and upbringing? We didn’t. Accordingly, it has no lawful authority
over
these objects.
Thus,
any federal law, treaty 4,
executive order, agency rule, or court opinion which pretends to
exercise such
power over children is unconstitutional as outside the scope of
enumerated
powers delegated to the federal government for the Country at Large. 5
See?
This is all very simple.
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