Here at the American Liberty Alliance, one of our chief aims is to defend the cause of limited government. Many so-called conservative politicians pretend to run on a limited government platform, but what have they truly done to limit government spending? Today, Republicans can do little more than try to obstruct further decay in our rotten Republic. However, the status quo is not worth preserving, so in actually there is very little about how the federal government operates that conservative voters should want to maintain. In contrast the Tea Party movement that led to formation of our Alliance is an indication that we are taxed enough already and desire a return to the enumerated powers of the Constitution. So in order to have a truly limited government, we need to reduce drastically cut federal spending so our only priorities are in line with Article I, Section 8.

http://www.constitutionfacts.com/?section=constitution&page=readTheConstitution.cfm

Unfortunately, the congress is so grossly derelict in their duty to protect and defend the Constitution, they don’t even understand what they were elected to do, which lies below:

[1] The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
[2] To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
[3] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
[4] To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
[5] To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
[6] To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
[7] To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
[8] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
[9] To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
[10] To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
[11] To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
[12] To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
[13] To provide and maintain a Navy;
[14] To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
[15] To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
[16] To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
[17] To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; —And
[18] To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

If congressional priorities are not directly in line with these enumerated powers, then Congress has failed their Constituencies and broken their oaths “to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Simply put, limited government is the service they were elected for and everything else they try to do should be struck down by the Judiciary, if the Supreme Court understood their role as a check against legislative and executive excess, rather than the enabler they have become. Therefore, We The People need to be eternally vigilant, to not only make sure we are sending respectful representatives to Washington on our behalf, but to work through the judicial system to undo the damage DC has done to our Republic and bring Cases to the court so they can realign our society in concert with our blessed Constitution.

Your Ally in Liberty,

Charley Davis
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