On Ending The Department Of Commerce

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Monday, October 4, 2010Patriot Paper #3 Ending the Department of Commerce

Patriot Paper #3 Ending the Department of Commerce

By

Walter L Brown Jr





To People of the United States,



According to the Department of Commerce’s about us webpage:



“The U.S. Department of Commerce has a broad mandate to advance economic growth and jobs and opportunities for the American people. It has cross cutting responsibilities in the areas of trade, technology, entrepreneurship, economic development, environmental stewardship and statistical research and analysis.



The products and services the department provides touch the lives of Americans and American companies in many ways, including weather forecasts, the decennial census, and patent and trademark protection for inventors and businesses.



The development of commerce to provide new opportunities was the central goal at the department's beginning in 1903 and it remains a primary obligation today.



The Secretary of Commerce oversees a $6.5 billion budget and approximately 38,000 employees.”



While no constitutional support can be found for the US Department of Commerce’s claimed broad mandate, there are substantial parts of this organization with valid constitutional credibility. Agglomerating constitutional and unconstitutional activities under one large organizational structure is detrimental to both the performance of the organizations and the rule of law.



The Census Bureau, National Institute of Standards (not the National Institute of Technology), and the Patent and Trademark Office all find authority for their existence if not their powers in the United States Constitution. The functions of these exceptions to unconstitutionality bare little resemblance to each other and should each be established as separate entities reporting to a cabinet level secretary or perhaps the vice president, in my opinion. I suggest spinning off the few constitutionally authorized activities and flattening the organizational structure. Not only is there no authorization for the existence of an organization to promote US business interests, there is also no authorization to establish countless layers of bureaucracy that is not necessary to accomplish the powers enumerated in the Constitution, in fact such structures are forbidden by the ninth and tenth amendments.



The commerce clause, “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes”, did not cede to Congress the power to interfere in the internal workings of state economies. It only ceded a conflict resolving power to regulate. Considering the objects to which congress has been ceded regulatory power foreign Nations, Indian Tribes, and the Several States, it’s foolish to imagine that this is anything more than a conflict resolution power. No sovereign foreign Nation would accept the US Congress interference in their internal commerce, nor should any Indian Nation, or State all of which hold higher sovereignty than the federal government.



Virtually the entire mission of the Commerce Department, excepting a few small parts, is unconstitutional. The means by which the Commerce Department accomplishes its intended goals, relying on direct taxes, is immoral and is in conflict with the Constitution and its intended goals.



The commerce department relying on redistribution of wealth to accomplish its unconstitutional objectives does more to harm than good to advance economic growth, jobs, and opportunities. Dr. Adrian Rogers’ quotes explain the foolishness of the so-called broad mandate under which the Commerce Department meddles:



• You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

• What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

• The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

• When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

• You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.



Ending the Commerce Department spinning-off the few constitutionally authorized activities will do more for promoting economic growth, jobs, and opportunities than the Commerce Department ever did.

Posted by Walter L. Brown Jr. at 10:05 AM