RE: And They Manage Not To Use The Word "Terrorist" At All!
February 18, 2017 at 8:59 am
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2017 at 9:03 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 17, 2017 at 7:21 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:It's not an issue of violation, as the federal murder laws that do exist attest to, it's an issue of empowerment. Where the constitution has granted the federal government jurisdiction there -are- federal murder laws, where it has not, and where it empowers states, there are not.(February 17, 2017 at 4:52 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Taking a look at the ways in which murder becomes a federal crime you might see that it has little to do with "the south"s interests, specifically, and more to do with protecting agents of the state, the states jurisdiction over communications, and money. Sure, there's also the war on drugs...and one piece of boilerplate stuff thrown in to make it not so glaringly obvious.
(in order for there to be a general, federal murder law congress would have to be granted powers not currently conferred constitutionally)
Remember, I live in the South and consider Texas my home by choice, so this is not a personal diatribe against the South.
Preamble to the US Constitution
We the people … in order to
1. Form a more perfect union
2. Establish justice
3. Ensure domestic tranquility
4. Provide for the common defense
5. Promote the general well fare
6. Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity
Do ordain and establish this Constitution …
How does making murder a federal crime violate this? And why has the South continuously filibustered any effort to do so for the last almost 100 years but doesn’t feel that its interference is relevant?
The federal murder laws largely center around killing elected officials, judges, law enforcement officers, their immediate family, and murders committed during robbery (banks and boats...yarr). Then there's murder by mail/phone, and trafficking related murders..as the fed has jurisdiction over interstate commerce and communications. The only federal murder laws that seem remotely for "we the people" are rape/sexual abuse related.
If the fed wanted to enact a general murder law, we'd need a constitutional amendment granting it jurisdiction. States push back against the expanse of federal powers on principle, as they depend for their very existence upon some manner of legal sovereignty. If the fed was allowed to become a one stop shop for law, states would be redundant.
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