In reference to the Constitution it mentions no limitations on minorities rights…

As for education, health care, housing, how exactly should that be handled at the federal level? Everyone should have a house? Who decides what kind of house? How do we determine what necessitates need in that regards? The same question is posed to your comments about education and health care.

The Constitution of the US specifically gives the Federal Government basic guidelines where it can intervene, and unfortunately our current incarnation of government, starting with Woodrow Wilson, has destroyed that parchment little by little and has left us with what we have now.

1) Individual Rights
2) States Rights
3) Federal Rights

IN that order.

Thank God for the Bill of Rights, because quite frankly, we would have seen the Federal Government even overstep into those rights. They try more and more every year.

On issues like Grenada – the founders set up the system this way so presidents would NOT have that kind of flexibility. And, in an emergency, such as Pearl Harbor, we can see congress declaring war in what, a day? That should not be a concern. If Congress could respond within 24 hours (less, actually) in 1941, they can do the same today.

Finally, if the people do not want to spend their money or their lives on war, conflict or intervention, why should the president be able to dictate that to the people anyway? Obviously, fending off an attack is a different story.

Perhaps thou it may be said that to get congress to declare war in all such cases would reduce the number of cases in which war was actually declared and thus actually engaged in, by means of the procedure being more politically significant.
This is admittedly both a good and bad thing, good in that war should be a significant thing given the fact that lives will almost surely be lost, therefore war can not be said to be any less significant an act then that of life.

It is a bad thing in that it will reduce the capability of presidents to dynamically and freely act to micro manage the military situation thou out the world such as in Grenada. One thing that can be said with out a doubt: congress moves slowly.

One thing we should however carefully consister here is an amendment to the constitution on the separate grounds of ballade budget with the 1 exception being military expenditures in time of declared war. Such a spesfic exception would serve to encourage congress to go out of their way to actually declare ware formally. While practically making it more difficult for the president to simply order troops into combat with out money to pay for such a deployment.

As congress is significantly less likely to want to allocate extra money to give the president "play money" in which to uses the military in such a way when they actually have to maintain a ballade budget in paying for everything else they want.

So might I suggest that this problem can be greatly reduced at the same time we deal with the general budget problem.

Yup, but they hope YOU can't!