[Possenti]

But Franklin D. Roosevelt expressed a radically different view when he argued in a May 31, 1935 press conference that the commerce clause was written "in the horse-and-buggy age" and that "since that time … we have developed an entirely different philosophy." "We are interdependent, we are tied in together," he claimed.

Thus began the overpowering federal burden under which we suffer today. When the Constitution is interpreted under the "living document philosophy" promoted by FDR, it becomes the "blank paper of construction" that Jefferson warned against. Philosophies may change, but human nature does not - nor does the nature of government to accumulate and centralize power for itself.

It's now obvious to us who the foreign enemies of the Constitution are. What worries me is how long it will take us to figure out who the domestic enemies are.

Great article from The New American.

[highlander_UW]

Alan Keyes also has written eloquently on the topic of the judicial assault and destruction of the constitution.

here's his website, Renew America: http://www.renewamerica.us/index.htm

I've got to figure out how to create a link here! Anyone have advise?

[MosesKnows]

ours is a government of laws and not of men, a republic and not a democracy.

This is always a little hard to take because it is so difficult to admit failure.

The answers you seek will be discovered when you reflect on the consequences resulting from the nation’s ratification of the 16th and 17th amendments to the Constitution. These two amendments led to the failure of the Constitution and caused the nation to move toward a democracy. Nothing has stopped it, nor can it be stopped.

We the people established this government with the Constitution. We the people also turned a blind eye when candidates for elected office offered unconstitutional favors from the public treasury in exchange for our votes.

If you were to doubt this assertion then offer in rebuttal any political topic or issue that is controversial and constitutional.

[LiteKeeper]

finish reading later

[Libertarianize the GOP]

Congress defends the Constitution, they just make believe the new interpretation of the Constitution supports their agenda and then proceed to pass any laws they desire. After all as Al Gore claimed it a living document so it has no fixed meaning.

[sauropod]

read later.

[secretagent]

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union,...

Authority for union legislation.

[NormsRevenge]

Happy New Year BUMP

[sixmil]

This lack of interest in the Constitution was vividly displayed early last year when a group of "experts" appealed to the House International Relations Committee to support the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Population Assistance Program.

Not only unconstitutional, stupid, and wasteful, but also redundant in the era of unilateral free trade and borders wide open.