Above Video: Mikie Sherrill reminds supporters of her oath to support U.S. Constitution in her Election Night victory speech. She then reminds them that New Jersey adopted “Liberty and Prosperity” as its motto in 1777. Did Mikie Sherrill and her staff learn that from our website?
Unfortunately, the Constitution that Mikie Sherrill swore to support is far different from the one that brought Liberty and Prosperity to America for its first 150 years. It was “fundamentally transformed” by a U.S. Supreme Court “packed” with “New Deal” supporters of Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt during his 12 years in office (1933-1945).
A typical example was the 1942 U.S. Supreme Court case of Wickard vs. Filburn.
Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution lists or “enumerates” the powers of the federal government. The Tenth Amendment of the Constitution states that “powers not delegated to the United States, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”. One of the powers delegated to the federal government by Article I, Section 8 is the power to “regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states”.
Roscoe Filburn was a small dairy farmer in Ohio. During the “New Deal” of the 1930s, Congress gave the Secretary of Agriculture the power to put limits on how much wheat and other crops farmers could grow on their land. In 1941, Filburn planted more wheat than what the Secretarly of Agriculture permitted. Claude Wickard was Roosevelt’s Secretary of Agriculture then imposed fines and penalties on Filburn for growing too much wheat. (Later, in 1943, Wickard became famous for making it a crime for bakers to sell sliced bread. Remembering When America Banned Sliced Bread – Gastro Obscura )
Filburn claimed that the federal government had no power to limit how much wheat he could grow on his own land. Filburn was not engaged in “commerce” with anyone in a different state. Filburn was not engaged in commerce with anyone. He was using the grain to feed his own cows on his own land. Click Here for Link to: Common Sense Americanism – Wickard v. Filburn
However, in 1942, Roosevelt’s “packed” Supreme Court ruled against the farmer. It said that the Constitution which permitted Congress to “regulate” commerce from one state to another also gave Congress the power to regulate anything that “affected” commerce. The court said that growing wheat on your own land “affects” commerce. That is because if you grow your own wheat, you will not buy someone else’s wheat, and that “affects” commerce. Using that logic, everything, even breathing, “affects” commerce. Years later, the Supreme Court went even further with the case of National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius | 567 U.S. 519 (2012) | Justia U.S. Supreme Court Center. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had the power to punish and fine anyone who did not buy an Obamacare approved health insurance policy!
Above Video: Charles Murray describes how “progressive” justices of the U.S. Supreme Court destroyed the 9th Amendment.
However, Sherrill and her supporters misrepresented the meaning “Liberty and Prosperity”. It means that people enjoy wealth, comfort and prosperity when they have a government that secures their liberty. People, not government create prosperity. They create prosperity by being free to make the most important choices affecting their own lives. People usually make better choices on things that affect their own lives than government officials do. That is because people usually know more about their own lives than they do about the lives of somebody else. People also usually make better decisions when they personally benefit from their good ones and personally deal with the consequences of their bad ones. Government officials who make decisions for others are far more likely to make mistakes. That is because they have much less knowledge about “the lives of others” and do not benefit from their good choices or get hurt by bad ones. Many politicians and government officials actually get promotions, pay hikes, and praise after making very bad decisions. Just look at the politicians, government employees, planners, professionals and contractors who borrowed and spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build the baseball stadium, Boardwalk Hall, train station and Convention Hall in Atlantic City!
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