Article I Section 8, as well as several Constitutional amendments, lists
the things, and the ONLY things, which the US federal government is
permitted to do. To make this injunction even more explicit, they added
the tenth amendment to make it even clearer. Therefore everything that
doesn't fall within the explicit powers outlined in Article I Section 8 is
unconstitutional. These powers were considered to be very specific, unlike
the broad interpretation they are given today.
Some prominent examples include: the FBI, DEA, and BATF (the ONLY crimes
which the feds have the constitutional authority to enforce are treason
and piracy and other crimes on the high seas - meaning that virtually the
entire US Code is unconstitutional, and all of these agencies are grossly
unconstitutional), the Department of the Interior (the constitution
doesn't permit the establishment of parks or the ownership of any land
whatsoever outside of ten square miles for the seat of government), the
Department of Education (education is not mentioned), the Department of
Energy (energy is not mentioned), the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (definitely not mentioned), the Department of Transportation
(unless the Stalinesque Interstate Highway System is a series of post
roads - a stretch to be sure), and almost every federal welfare program
like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Food Stamps, AFDC, etc., etc.
And outside of all that, there is also the Ninth Amendment, which makes it
even more explicit that the US federal government is not permitted to make
laws against something just because it is not in the Constitution.
Meaning, for example, that a federal law against buying and selling
cocaine by the boatload is not only unconstitutional because the feds have
no enumerated power to prohibit such a thing, but also because it is a
retained Ninth Amendment right.
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