r Federal Government, and are not within the powers granted to them in the constitution. The Judicial system should have found Johnsons intentions unconstitutional, but instead failed to keep its function in the separation of powers. The task of providing welfare and help to the poor should not fall under the Federal Government but with the local governments of the states. It would be beneficial to the integrity of the community and also increase the involvement of the people in their government. The American people must realize that by granting the Federal Government powers to provide social benefits like Social Security and Medicare, gives the federal government power to tax us and directly take rights away from the jurisdiction of the people. In essence we have less input in our destiny. The individual citizen has very little control of what happens in the Federal government, this is caused by a lack of representation. The more powers we give to this entity, the less liberty we define for ourselves. Jefferson stressed this concept, and hoped it would never happen. If Liberty is the privilege of living under a constitutionally limited government and having input in the laws we live under. We obviously have more input in our local governments, so they should be the ones which responsible with things life social welfare, and community projects. The Great Society clearly takes rights away from the people, and gives the government powers of which it has no right to have under the constitution. It is exactly what Washington was describing in his farewell address by the words let there be no change by usurpation, for though this, in one instance may be the instrument of good, its is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed Programs such as The Great Society and the New Deal have taken the power away from the people and given it to the government. Creating a socialistic democracy, not a republic governed by the people. W...
