Open Letter to Senator Nelson
Open Letter to Senator Bill Nelson of Florida
Sir,
When you were sworn in as Senator for the State of Florida, you took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.
I called your office last week to ask what Constitutional Amendment offered the provision for the Federal Government to mandate any modification to health care.
Your attendant responded by asking what provision prohibited such an action by the Federal Government. I responded with the statement “The Tenth Amendment.”
Your attendant mentioned that there are many other pieces of legislation that are equally egregious to the principle of the Tenth Amendment.
This may be true, but it does not make them right.
If you swore to uphold the U.S. Constitution, how can you, in good faith, vote for a bill that holds the Tenth Amendment in such contempt?
In case you have forgotten what the Tenth Amendment says, it states “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
If there is no provision in the Constitution allowing for the Federal modification of health care laws, then by voting for the bill, are you not dismissing the Tenth Amendment of the document you SWORE to uphold?
Does swearing an oath mean anything to you?
Did you swear an oath to your wife? I imagine she’ll be particularly interested in knowing whether or not your vows have any meaning; whether or not your word is of any value.
To be fair, you have voted for a number of bills that we impermissible based upon the Tenth Amendment alone.
Your word, your oath, has no value anymore anyway… you might as well vote in favor of yet another affront to our Constitution, the document you SWORE to uphold.
Seth Yantiss,
Florida Constituent and landowner
