The Congressional Constitution Caucus will be an effective forum to ensure that the Federal government is operating under the intent of the Tenth Amendment of our Bill of Rights.
The Tenth Amendment states:
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.
These historic words, penned by our Founding Fathers, some of the most ingenious political minds this world has ever known, set forth an important principle: The Federal government may exercise the specific powers that are listed in the Constitution, and the States and the people may exercise all remaining powers.
Unfortunately, as the authors of the Constitution have long since passed, so too have many of their foundations for our system of government. Between an ever-expanding Federal bureaucracy that for decades has crept into many facets of traditionally locally controlled government to a Federal judiciary that time and time again completely ignores the intent of the Tenth Amendment, the Federal government has become wildly inefficient and is hemorrhaging tax dollars.
The Congressional Constitution Caucus will point out that not only is state and local control over programs in line with the Constitution, it is a much more cost-effective and efficient way to provide many domestic services to American citizens.
In light of the looming fiscal crisis of our Federal budget and domestic programs that are simply not reaching their intended goals, it is imperative to highlight the need to return to a system intended under the “reserve clause” of the Constitution.
