These are the nineteen services we contracted the federal government of the united States of America to provide, nothing more and nothing less:
Section 8. The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the united States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the united States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the united States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the united States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and to fix the Standards of Weights and Measures;
To Establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant letters of Marque and Reprisal, and makes Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a Term longer than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the united States, reserving to the states respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases, whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the united States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards and other needful Buildings;-And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the united States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
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We emphasized they were limited from anything else not specifically granted to them in the tenth Amendment to the same Constitution as follows:
Article. X.
The Powers not delegated to the united States by the Constitution, or prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the People.
Apparently, they did not get the hint. In some way, we were duped into flipping around who had what authority and who didn't. We the People created the federal government with the flick of a pen in 1787, then somehow lost the reigns since then to the point they now tell us (and we cower in a corner when they do) what we can and cannot do, when, where, how and why.