How Many Powers Did We the People Delegate to the Federal Government?

➡ The text discusses the concept of state sovereignty and the hierarchy of power in the United States. It argues that contrary to popular belief, the federal government does not hold the highest authority, but rather, the people and local authorities do. The text also criticizes the expansion of federal power and the misconception that the government is responsible for taking care of its citizens. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the limited powers delegated to the federal government and the role of local authorities like the county sheriff.
➡ The text criticizes the federal government for overstepping its authority, with people and states not questioning its actions. It mentions the government’s misuse of funds, the establishment of the IRS and the Federal Reserve, and the introduction of the 1913 income tax as major issues. The author also suspects that Congress may have stolen gold from Fort Knox.

So, I want to ask a question. Down below, I’m pointing over at my other screen here, under state sovereignty, there is a case called Gregory versus Ashcroft. Ashcroft is a big name around Missouri. Do you know anything about that? Yeah, Ashcroft was the Attorney General of Missouri and then he went on to be the AG for the federal government. Okay, it was John then, John Ashcroft. Yeah, and so let me make sure I get the right heading for you on this next one. Okay, so first of all, this, yeah, I see that about Ashcroft and that’s on page seven in my book about state sovereignty, but I absolutely love this and everyone else should get a copy of this.

So, okay, now this one is right above the commerce clause. Do you see which one? On page nine, on mine is commerce. I see the commerce clause, yep. Right above that. Okay, good, we’re pretty good there. Okay, so right above, two paragraphs above commerce clause, it says this, hence, and that’s at the top of the booklet on your side on page seven. So, hence, and I’ve got this memorized, hence, a double security arises to the rights of the people. Well, how does it do that? Quoting again, the different governments will control each other at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.

You see, it’s the job of the counties and the sheriffs and the state legislatures and the governors to make sure the federal government stays within its proper lane of authority. And so, it was such nonsense that anyone thinks historically that the founding fathers got together and formed a new federal government that could treat us worse than King George III did. Our whole intent was to make sure that none of those abuses from the English parliament and King George III could ever happen in our country again. Well, I want to jump in here kind of while we’re on this topic.

I think you and I, unless we were just slow to it, I mean, I’m slow, I’m slow to adapt and learn, you know, I always thought up until the COVID era, federal held the highest level, then it goes to state, then it goes to county, and then we start getting into here all these things with, you know, you got to wear a mask, you got to get a shot, you got to stay home, you got to stay six feet apart, we’re going to haul you out if you’re not wearing a mask, and I’m like, then we started hearing about, well, federal doesn’t have any control over that, the state doesn’t, only your local county sheriff, and I’m like, wait a second, that’s contrary to what I’ve been taught my entire life.

How about you? And you would think the bigger, the more powerful. Yeah. And so, I want to get into the fact that, I mean, this is just my personal belief. I don’t know, I may be speaking just for Randy and me here, but I think that if you were to survey 100 people going into Costco on a Saturday and say, hey, give us the hierarchy of law enforcement, or the federal, state, county, whatever, I guarantee you, I personally think you’d have 90 plus percent of the people say, oh, federal holds the highest regard, and county’s the least.

I want you to explain this, because I think a lot of our viewers still today think the federal government is still the supreme law of the land, and the county sheriff is just, you know, driving around kind of like Andy Taylor and Barney Wise. Yeah. So, break this out for us and walk through us, if you would, please. That’s not a heart. That’s a triangle. Okay. And that’s how most governments are established. Up at the top is the king or the dictator, and then right below the top is the congress and parliaments, and then it goes down to the states, and then underneath that is the states, and then the cities and counties, and down at the bottom is the people.

Turn it upside down. Take that triangle, turn it upside down, and now you have this, one straight line up at the top of the triangle. That’s the American form of government, and it goes down to a triangle down at the bottom, and down at the bottom is the least important people in your government, and that’s the president and congress. They only have discrete, enumerated powers, and that’s also talked about in this decision, where Scalia actually says, residual state sovereignty was also implicit, of course, in the constitution’s conferral upon congress of not all governmental powers.

Well, congress right now, and for the last 80, 100 years, thinks they can do anything they want, and nobody can stop them, and they are the only ones that can determine how far their authority goes. Well, that’s all absurd. Do you know, okay, want me to give you an example? Okay, I will. There are only five law enforcement powers delegated that we, the people, or the states, do we all understand this? The states form the central government, not the other way around. The state, the 13 original colonies, 13 original states, got together, independence all, and said, we better form a national government, and there were four or five states that said, to hell with that, we don’t want another central government.

They said, I think we can do this, and we’ll make it very limited. We’ll give them only certain powers. In law enforcement, we, the people, the states, delegated, as mentioned, that’s the word in the 10th Amendment, delegated. And how many powers did we delegate to them? Not even 40. If you go through the entire constitution, you will not count 40. I think it’s right around 38, 39. Okay, let’s say 40. 40 powers, that’s all they get, and you must refer to the 10th Amendment. The powers not delegated to the federal government belong and remain to the people, or to the states, respectively.

That’s it. Now, let’s go over this real quick. Five law enforcement powers delegated to the federal government. What are they? First, treason. We get to see some of that. Yeah, counterfeiting. Third, felonies committed on the high seas, or piracies. Fourth, now we bounce over to Article 4, Section 4. They shall, they are required to protect our borders from invasion. Shall protect our borders from invasion. And then five, violations of treaties. So if you go into Canada, you violate a treaty that we have with them, that’s a federal offense. That’s all they get.

So where does the federal government have authority to conduct drug interdiction at the border? Otherwise, they have none. None. And that’s all they get. Those are the five law enforcement powers delegated to them. Do you know how many the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in the federal government, they’ve stolen thousands and thousands. And all of that, all of that is usurpations out of control federal government that somehow got to thinking that they control all the money, all the land, the air we breathe, and everything we do in our lives, and that they’re just in charge of everything.

They’re not. We just are now seeing that they’re not even, they’re not even in charge of education. They created that in 1979, and it has no constitutional authority whatsoever. Okay, so speaking on education, where did we all, where did it go wrong? Where were we taught that it goes federal, state, county? Was that in public education? Where did that whole hierarchy happen, come to be? It’s several different areas. One of them is when these guys run for president, they want to keep handing out things. The biggest problem was FDR when he tried to get rid of the Great Depression.

And so his great new deal was a lot of government power that they’re not supposed to have. But as a politician, they go, oh, well, people are hungry. So what are we going to do? We’re going to give them food, and we’re going to give them jobs, and we’re going to create all these federal jobs. And he had no authority to do any of that. And the thing of it is, there’s a lot of historians that believe if FDR would have stayed out of the way, that the Great Depression would have only lasted a couple of years.

I actually believe that as well. But it became part of politics. I’m going to take care of you. Well, for me, I’ll set you free. And it just started getting more attention and more attention to the feds. And we started forgetting about governors and local authority, and it just gradually switched. But just so you know, the county sheriff is the only elected law enforcement officer anywhere in the country. He answers only to the power source. And all power, political power and authority comes from the people. And we are the ultimate authority and power in this country.

And we have forgotten that. We believe government’s here to take care of us. Where did that come from? FDR. And it’s happened ever since. LBJ, the war on poverty. We have more poverty now than we did then. And they spent $7 trillion to get rid of poverty, and they never got rid of bit of it. And then it just was one thing after another where the federal government assumed authority they didn’t have. And people went, oh, that’s a great idea. Instead of questioning where they got the constitutional authority in the first place, we, the people, went to sleep.

The states went to sleep, and the governors went to sleep. And as long as the federal government was giving us the money, then we were okay with it. They have no authority to do federal grants. They have no authority to be in charge of the money. And that was another huge mistake was the income tax of 1913. And so then, of course, they established what? The IRS and the federal reserve. And they just kept coming after us, and they stole our money. And I’m going to tell you right now, as soon as they walk into the Fort Knox and start auditing the gold there, they’re going to find out that Congress stole that too.

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