Federal Wizards of Unlimited Power?

Why Federal Authorities Do Not Have The Power To Reinterpret Words And Phrases In The Consitution

To listen to the self-proclaimed wizards of unlimited federal authority tell it, they have the magical ability to reinterpret words and phrases of the U.S. Constitution at will, to give themselves more power, for direct exercise throughout the Union.  This would be like having a magical genie lamp, but one that grants an unlimited number of wishes, not just three.

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Witness, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court’s claim (1819 McCulloch v. Maryland) that justices may re-interpret “necessary and proper” instead to mean only “convenient.”

But, the Court was simply following Alexander Hamilton’s lead in his 1791 Treasury Secretary’s opinion on the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States.

Hamilton’s push for unlimited federal authority can be traced back to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, where and when on June 18^th he detailed his plan to give Congress the inherent power to do anything members wanted, except what a constitution crafted only as a set of negative prohibitions would expressly prohibit.

Hamilton specifically sought to abolish the States themselves, or at most leave them as mere geographic cogs in the federal wheel.

And, his third major plank for unquestioned federal supremacy was to give U.S. Senators and American Presidents their terms for life (or at least during “good behavior”).

Thankfully, Hamilton’s fellow delegates ignored his drastic plan for absolute federal power and instead only proposed—which the States later ratified—the Constitution of delegated powers that could be exercised using only necessary and proper means.

But Hamilton’s immediate loss at the 1787 Convention did not stop him from deviously working behind the scenes to indirectly implement over time what he did not directly get at the convention.

And, to our decided detriment—with the Supreme Court’s help—Hamilton’s first two objectives were soon implemented. Federal servants have long done almost anything they care to do and the States long ago became largely irrelevant.

The idea that mere federal servants—who, before they may exercise any federal power, must swear an oath to support the U.S. Constitution (thereby signifying their actual subservience to it)—may instead become our political masters, simply by changing the meaning of words or phrases found in the Constitution, is a claim especially ripe for testing.

And, sometimes, the best way to test utter foolishness is to extend bold claims to their illogical conclusion.

In my new book Trapped by Political Desire: The Novel, protagonist Will Hartline has had enough. He decides to set a trap to expose the false rule of paper tyrants, by taking their ridiculous claims of magical powers to their absurd conclusion.

Hartline writes his Political Year Strategy, which offers a variation of Alexander Hamilton’s third rail (life terms) to increase federal elective term lengths four-fold, merely by changing—within Congress’ enumerated power—the date used for federal elections, to the only date that shows up on a calendar once approximately every four years.

By changing the date for federal elections to February 29^th—Leap Year Day—then “Year” for federal election intervals and term lengths could by their logic be “redefined” as the length of time until the date chosen for federal elections again showed up on the calendar.

Suddenly—after changing federal elections to every other February 29^th—American Presidents who serve a four-year term could arguably by this bizarre logic serve four “Political Years” (four Leap Years) or 16 calendar years.

And, U.S. Representatives who serve a two-year term could serve two Political Years, or eight calendar years, while U.S. Senators who serve a six-year term could serve six Political Years or 24 calendar years.

But, as his political opponents push The Political Year Strategy to increase their elective terms four-fold, they don’t realize that they are simultaneously building Hartline the name recognition and political platform he had never been able to build himself.

And, from his new political soapbox, Hartline springs his trap, exposing the fallacy so long ago employed to grow federal powers along Hamilton’s devilish plan.  No greater political folly exists than believing in the make-believe rule of federal wizards, genies, fairies, and magicians.

It is time to stop listening to the drivel of those who proclaim the magical power to give words found in the Constitution new meaning so they may increase federal authority and instead do our own work.

Thankfully, nothing any federal servant has ever done has ever changed the U.S. Constitution.  Those who swear an oath to support the Constitution signify by that oath an inability to ever change it.

The U. S. Constitution—and the allowed federal powers capable of being directly exercised throughout the Republic—may only be changed by formal amendments proposed by two-thirds of Congress (or two-thirds of the States in a convention for proposing amendments) and then ratified into actual operation by three-fourths of the American States.

Therefore, everything beyond the spirit of the Constitution and its strictest words—imposed by federal servants who are powerless to change their own powers for the Union—is but a fraud that may be thrown off after being exposed to the bright light of day, by understanding the scoundrels’ devious Constitution-bypass mechanism and finally responding accordingly.

Read Trapped by Political Desire: The Novel to learn how to restore our American Republic. While hardcover, paperback, and ebook versions are available for purchase at Amazon, I’ll send a free pdf version to anyone requesting it. You may email me at mail@PatriotCorps.org