Candidate for
United States Representative; District 47

Consistent Trusted Conservative

Our Founding Fathers plainly spelled out the powers granted to the federal government in Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. If the federal government is doing something not specifically listed in Article I, Section 8, it is almost certainly engaging in an overreach of its authority.

Article I, Section 8 clearly indicates that the primary responsibility of the federal government is the common defense, or the protection of our nation's sovereign borders. In recent decades, the federal government has noticeably failed to adequately fulfill this primary duty, while creating numerous other responsibilities for itself that lie entirely beyond its explicitly enumerated powers and purview.

Moreover, re-interpretation of the Founders' original intent has permitted much of this overreach. The Commerce Clause is a prominent example of such re-interpretation. Where the Founders intended the Commerce Clause to ensure that commerce between the states remained regular, the federal government now wrongly uses it to justify its own control over any interstate commerce that occurs. Beyond defending our borders, the two most important responsibilities the federal government could adopt today are:

1) To create an environment in which the free market can thrive by removing itself from the market to the greatest degree possible; and

2) To keep itself small and limited.