Powers delegated to U.S. (National) Government by the Several States

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Mark Andrews

Look through these and see if you can find Social Security, Welfare, Food and Drug Regulation, Education, Energy, Health Care, etc.

Exclusive powers

  1. To lay and collect import duties.[8]
  2. To pay the debts of the U.S. Government.
  3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations and Indian Tribes.
  4. To regulate commerce among the States.[2]
  5. To regulate immigration.[7]
  6. To establish a uniform rule of naturalization.
  7. To establish uniform laws on bankruptcy throughout the United States.
  8. To coin money and regulate its value and that of foreign coin, and to issue bills of credit.
  9. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States.[3]
  10. To fix the standard of weights and measures.
  11. To provide and regulate postal services.
  12.  To establish protection for intellectual property, including patent, copyright, and trademark rights.
  13. To constitute lower national courts.
  14. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the laws of nations.[3]
  15. To declare war, authorize warlike activities by other than the armed forces, and make rules concerning captures.
  16. To raise, support and regulate the armed forces.
  17. To govern what part of the Militia shall be employed in the service of the United States.
  18. To exercise general Legislation[9] over federal ground, which is limited to federal territories and districts, land purchased from states with the consent of their legislatures, U.S. flag vessels on the high seas, and the grounds of U.S. embassies abroad.
  19. To guarantee a republican form[12] of government to the States.[3]
  20. To enter into a treaty, alliance, or confederation with a foreign state.
  21. To declare the punishment for treason.[3]
  22. To prescribe the manner in which the acts, records, and judicial proceedings of each state shall be proved to other states and what should be done about them.
  23. To admit new states into the Union.
  24. To make laws necessary and proper for executing the powers delegated to the U.S. government.

via Constitutional Rights, Powers and Duties.

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Another New Eagle Scout

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Mark Andrews

Today, Sunday, April 15th, 2012, the world is a better place: My nephew, Michael King, will have the rank of Eagle Scout conferred upon him by the Boy Scouts of America.

Michael has already accomplished some incredible things in his short life of nearly 16 years. After the April 27th, 2011 tornado outbreak, Michael’s Eagle Project was to help school kids in Phil Campbell, AL. Phil Campbell was obliterated by a tornado that day. Before school began in the Fall of 2011, Michael organized a team, promoted his project, gathered supplies, raised money and delivered 175 backpacks full of school supplies and $7,500.00 in donations to Phil Campbell schools.

Barely 4% of boys registered in the Scouting program ever become Eagle Scouts. Yet Eagle Scouts stand out in the world as people of character and accomplishment. The first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, was an Eagle Scout as have been many Astronauts. Gerald Ford, Ross Perot, James Richard “Rick” Perry, Steven Spielberg, Mike Rowe, William DeVries and Eugene Calvin Cheatham, Jr. are others.

Scouting Magazine has published an article on a study by Baylor University showing the way Eagle Scouts differ from the rest of us. I encourage you to read it.

Michael, my hat is off to you. You’ve succeeded where I and many others did not. I know you’re life will be filled with many proud accomplishments all of which will make your family, friends and, most of all, your Scouting Brothers, very proud.

Congratulations Nephew!

Mark
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iOS 5 is OK, But the iPad eMail App Still Sucks

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Mark Andrews

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I bought my iPad 2 for the portability. In a few short weeks, it has become an indispensable tool. However it has a few glaringly bad problems which I was hoping would be remedied by an upgrade to iOS 5.

My hopes have been dashed.

1) The email client sucks. I had more features in Outlook Express 13 years ago on Windows 98. For a device that is supposed to be about 24/7 online access, this is inexcusable. Apple, either upgrade the email client 8 or 9 generations or let third parties install email clients in iOS as the default email client.

2) Safari was upgraded. OH BOY! It now has tabs instead of that stupidly awkward screen switching mechanism that some software puke at Apple thought was clever. Tabs are something Firefox and IE have had for several releases, so where is the innovation? It’s still not as good as it should be. In fact, its still behind other browsers by many years. For instance, I’m writing this right now in the WordPress editor. However, I can’t use the editor’s built in WYSIWYG functions because iOS won’t allow Safari to execute javascript or some such nonsense. I really don’t care what the problem is. It’s been a documented problem since the original iPad debuted. Safari is in the dark ages without this ability.

Here’s the real rub. There are better browsers available. However, Apple won’t let them install as the default browser. Doesn’t this smack of Microsoft several years ago? I seem to remember a Justice Department investigation of Microsoft for Antitrust violations part of which was about Windows including IE as the default browser. Part of the settlement was that Microsoft must allow third party browsers to be installed as the default browser.

3) iPad finally has a ToDo app – Reminders. I was really excited about this one. Finally, my ToDo lists in my Outlook Calendar and Google would have some place to go on my iPad. But guess what? IT DOESN’T INTEGRATE WITH THE iPAD CALENDAR APP! What? Sometimes I move things from my Calendar to my ToDo list and vice-versa. Can’t do this on iPad, not even with the new, now useless Reminders app.

4) iCloud is a lot of hype. I was excited about this one too. However, like a lot of Apple technology, it doesn’t play well with others and isn’t really new. In other words, Google is much more flexible in that Google will work with email addresses, applications and OS’s other than its own. If your calendar, email or other apps conform to the Exchange standard, then your good. iCloud requires you to get a .me email address and essentially abandon Google. Sorry Apple, Google works just fine for me. I’d like to use a service that was designed for iOS, but I have too much time invested in Google to go to something with more limitations and less capability. Besides, Google still works with my iPhone 3G, which is not compatible with iOS 5. I would have to abandon it or upgrade to a iPhone 4… wait, that might be a bonus, actually…

When iCloud learns to be more open, then I’ll reconsider it.

Truthfully, there are some nice new features in iOS 5. The Apple website has the skinny on those. If you have an iOS 5 compatible device, I recommend you update it.

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