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Back when everyone understood that to be a natural born citizen one must be born here of citizen parents and that children of foreign nationals were excluded.
I’ve always said that “living document” is leftist newspeak for “dead letter”.
T.R...The genesis of the former American Republic’s destruction...Probably never to be restored...
It’s been “living” since 1803.
Thanks for posting. More excellent food for thought.
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If it’s living and breathing it’s not a Constitution, is it?
The Obama and Clintoon Feral “judges” do have the Constitution on life support right now though.
It also was not infected with the 16th and 17th Amendments. The 18th Amendment was also given to us by the Progressives, but it was repealed by the 21st Amendments. Now we need a 28th Amendment repealing those other two amendments.
If it's truly the will of the people it's possible to withdraw our freedom of religion...our right to keep and bear arms...our right to avoid self-incrimination.
If the Constitution of the United States of America was truly a Living Document, there would be no need for an Amendment Process.
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In 1912, the United States was a Christian Nation, according to the Supreme Court.
Some William Howard Taft quotes on the topic:
“We must work along with our Constitution as it is. It is a most wonderful instrument, most elastic for accomplishing purposes that were only dimly in the minds of its framers, and I think after you contemplate the history of the country one of the wisest features of the instrument is the difficulty with which it can be amended.” (1909)
“This is a government of law, not of changing economic and political theories of judicial or executive officers, when those theories are in conflict with the express letter of the law. Suggestions of that sort are dangerous because they put the ship of state on a sea of troubles, without a rudder.” (1912)
“Popular government we all believe in. There are those of us, however, who believe that not all people are fitted for popular government. The fact is that they are not. Some of us don’t dare say so. But I do. The question of whether a people is fitted for popular selfgovernment is determined by the ability of that people to place on itself the restraints by which the minority shall receive justice despite the majority. It is the question of self imposed restraint that determines whether a people is fit to govern itself.” (1912)
“It has been said, and it is a common platform expression, that it is well to prefer the man above the dollar, as if the preservation of property rights has some other purpose than the assistance to and the uplifting of human rights. Private property was not established in order to gratify love of some material wealth or capital. It was established as an instrumentality in the progress of civilization and the uplifting of man, and it is equality of opportunity that private property promotes by assuring to man the result of his own labor, thrift, and self-restraint. When, therefore, the demagogue mounts the platform and announces that he prefers the man above the dollar, he ought to be interrogated as to what he means thereby — whether he is in favor of abolishing the right of the institution of private property and of taking away from the poor man the opportunity to become wealthy by the use of the abilities that God has given him, the cultivation of the virtues with which practice of self-restraint and the exercise of moral courage will fortify him.” (1912)
And my favorite:
“For I am an individualist first, last and all the time, and I am bitterly opposed to the theory of Socialism — that is — to transfer the object of individual effort to State control and State supervision.” (1911)
The Constitution lives and breaths in the breasts of The People - it is up to us to keep it well oxygenated....
