Posted on 09/08/2019 10:29:23 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The American Founding generation fought a long, bloody war to free themselves from a tyrannical government, only to see the people eventually embrace the very system they struggled to throw off.
That may seem like a stinging indictment, but careful examination of U.S. governance today reveals that it rests on essentially the same philosophical foundation as the 18th century British system Americans rejected.
The founding generation developed a brand new conception of government, resting it on the consent of the governed and the idea that governing institutions must operate within constitutional constraints. Today, we still see the vestiges of those founding ideals in political rhetoric and popular conscience, but the U.S. government long ago threw off constitutional fetters and now functions much like the English system Americans fought to free themselves from.
In Rights of Man, Thomas Paine captured the essence of American constitutionalism that evolved during the Revolution, characterizing the Pennsylvania constitution as “a political bible.”
“Nothing was more common when any debate rose on the principles of a bill, or on the extent of any species of authority, then for members to take the printed Constitution out of their pocket, and read the chapter with which such matter in debate was connected.”
(Excerpt) Read more at tenthamendmentcenter.com ...
An oldie but a goodie.
PING!
These days people don’t actually want to read the whole thing and understand it; take it in and then apply it. Some will even go so far as to say “I have a job” - meaning “I don’t have time for that” or “I’m too busy”.
They want to quote it, and the use the quote to fit the topic around their own personal belief instead of molding themselves to fit around the Constitution and the Founding.
Quoting is killing us. It isn’t bringing us closer to the Founders, it’s taking us further away from them.
America does not
Liberals do.
Americans do not
America has not embraced it.
The Ministry of Propaganda wants you to believe America has embraced it.
<>For all practical purposes, the federal government today operates without any limits at all. Everything the federal government does and approves is considered “constitutional.”<>
Thank the 17th Amendment.
But an Article V COS is too dangerous. Bullsh!t.
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until voters discover that they can vote themselves largesses from the public treasury. From that time on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
"The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage."
Note the second word of the second paragraph. So glad the USA is a republic.
Besides complaining about what has become a joke of an amendment nowadays, does the 10th amendment center actually do anything to support 10th amendment arguments in court for example?
The History and Danger of Administrative Law https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/history-danger-administrative-law/
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