We The People Part II

Of the United States

Not of the Federal Government; but of the United States. The principle government of this great country is the States in which we live. (As of the time of this writing there are 50 states, which are united to form this great country.) Indeed the Founding Fathers of this great country specifically alluded to this fact when debating the Bill of Rights. “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.”[1] The worst fears of those who framed our very way of life in this venerable document have, as of late, been realized. The central government has become too big. One of the things that worried the original delegates was that the power of the Centralized Government of the “United States” would overshadow the power of the individual States. Therefore they enumerated in the Constitution itself exactly what the powers of the central government were and explicitly stated that all other powers were reserved for the States. After all, this is the united STATES of America. I cannot stress it enough that we live in a country of States that are united, not a centralized government that has broken it’s constituency down into manageable bites called states. “We the People” cannot allow the central government to eclipse the power of our States.
[1] Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.