[PJ-Comix]

I should have posted this yesterday on Constitution Day but this demonstrates great insight into the liberal's version of what they think the Constitution should look like. It was written by New Dealer braintruster (Rexford Tugwell (appointed to be governor of Puerto Rico) in his book, "The Emerging Constition."

Forget all the phony claptrap from the Liberals about how they love the Constitution. The Tugwell version of the Constitution is what they would really want. Truly frightening to read. Note the establishment of the office of Electoral Overseer. Seems like Tugwell loved that word: Overseer.

[JRandomFreeper]

Tugwell can urinate up a rope and kiss my hindmost parts. Any move to make that screed the law of the land means a shooting war.

/johnny

[Gadsden1st]

ARTICLE I

Rights and Responsibilities

A. Rights

SECTION 1 Every legal citizen shall have the right and duty to possess any type and amount of firearms and ammunition they should desire.

[Alex Murphy]

Forget all the phony claptrap from the Liberals about how they love the Constitution. The Tugwell version of the Constitution is what they would really want. Truly frightening to read. Note the establishment of the office of Electoral Overseer. Seems like Tugwell loved that word: Overseer.

Heck, that's mild compared to this:
A Blueprint for a Monarchy in America

[FrdmLvr]

It strikes me as not insignificant that many, if not most, liberal advocates of the tax-and-spend-just-keep-fuling-the-nanny-government-with-other-people's-money mindset usually set themselves up on .org websites, just like those who started the tax-exempt foundations to shelter and direct their money to pet projects while promoting the income tax in the last century. Hypocrites, phonies and worse.

Thanks for posting this Tugwell constitution. I'm glad you've reintroduced it. Probably many have never been aware of it.

[oh8eleven]

The President ... shall have one term of nine years, unless rejected by 60 percent of the electorate after three years;
"Except for the 'dear leader' who shall remain in office 'til death do us part."

[FrankR]

I stopped reading after the first article...this is $h!+

[Tigerized]

I LOVE it! Now all we need is for them to self-expatriate to some People’s Utopia and adopt this piece of crap.

In about two seconds after adoption, a national “emergency” would be declared, and all the supposed safeguards would be null and void.

It would be fun to watch. Hell, I’ll even buy the popcorn!

[SeeSharp]

Note the langage "shall not be abridged except in declared emergency." This tracks with the Declaration of the Rights of Man from the French Revolution. One has to wonder just who is going to abridge your rights other than the government? So who then is going to declare emergencies?

Tugwell was interesting bird (apart having a name that sounds like a like a gay porn star). He came in with the Hover administration and was in charge of Hoover's economic recovery efforts. FDR kept him on and made him the head of the NRA (no, not that NRA). Tugwell wrote in his memoirs that they tried from the start to recreate the economic central planning that had exited during World War I. They went to the warehouses and got all the old forms, crossed out "War", wrote "Recovery" above it, and they were back in business. They were basically just taking advantage of the crisis to implement their ideology and he was unapologetic about it.

[mnehring]

Reads like some weird SciFi Fascist Utopia.

[Cheerio]

Truly frightening. The old America according to Pres Reagan........America Is The Last Stand On Earth

[Publius]

I remember this golden oldie from 1965. Where did you dig it up? It's been sitting around the file cabinets of the great tax-exempt foundations gathering dust for eons.

Tugwell went to his reward in 1979, but bad ideas live on, thanks to the miracle of the Internet.

[Let_It_Be_So]

All who support this constitution shall contribute all but 10% of their assets and resources to go into a fund that will be used to purchase an uninhabited island, and a portion of said fund shall be used to pay for transport of all supporters/contributors to inhabit said island; the inhabitants of this island, hereafter called “Tugwell Island” shall abide therein under the constitution as proposed by Tugwell. The Tugwellians shall attempt to live happily everafter.

[Texas Eagle]

Best parody EVER!

I wish there was some sort of award we could bestow upon you.

My favorite part:

SECTION 1. Freedom of expression, of communication, of movement, of assembly, or of petition shall not be abridged except in declared emergency.

As if EVERY day in New America won't contain one declared emergency or another.

[andy58-in-nh]

I recall having this as assigned reading when it first came out and I was studying Political Science. Professor Longhair (can't remember his real name, but that's how I recall him) thought it was terrific, being a great fan of FDR and all his works. For my part, I thought: "so this is what American Fascism would look like..."

[Leep]

SECTION 6. Each shall pay whatever share of governmental costs is consistent with fairness to all.

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Sounds like a flat tax???

[Lucky9teen]

Don’t fix what is not broken.

That said, the Constitution is NOT broken. The people are.

[Repeal 16-17]

I love how almost every right can be overcome simply by declaring “an emergency”. Basically, there would be no rights under this communist constitution; of course, the responsibilities would remain.

[Yardstick]

Interesting tidbit: he has renamed the Armed Forces the Protective Forces.

[Yardstick]

SECTION 6. Each shall pay whatever share of governmental costs is consistent with fairness to all.

Naturally it codifies "fairness" into the law.

[eclecticEel]

Sweet, all the most important rights can be abolished with the declaration of an "emergency" - but none of the state demands citizen responsibilities get similar caveats.