Posted on 11/08/2012 6:36:21 PM PST by SC_Pete
Yep. They discovered they could take earnings from one group and buy votes with it from another who did nothing (but vote) to earn it. That was the day our own government started oppressing and enslaving it's own people.
Today, we are nothing to them but sweat equity. In fact, our labor, or potential labor when we're born, is bought and sold on the market in the form of bonds.
But it has been under assault for 100 years. I urge you to read the Wiki entry on Randy Barnett and the details of his Bill of Federalism. A convention would hash all this out and the specific amendment would have to ratified by 3/4 of the legislatures. RAT proposals would go nowhere since they only have 20 states (or 27 if you count it Obama’s way.) :)
I like your analysis. I like it a lot.
While the Constitution is a dead letter, I don’t favor a Constitutional Convention. It is an invitation to get a document full of “positive rights”. Be careful what you wish for.
Prayers for the Supreme Court justices.
A man that ought to know has just given a nod that any effort to restore our freedoms is warranted. He, a man that adjudicates our rights from the highest court of the land, has clearly stated that he is not confident that our freedoms, our rights, can be restored in this corrupt system, including within his own court. Should there be a revolution of any sort, we have the moral high ground.
You are missing the point. We control enough state legislatures to insure only the changes to the constitution we desire will be considered. The garbage the left would like wouldn’t even be brought up.
“It doesn’t take an uprising. Study Ghandi.”
Love ya, man, but you do need to study Ghandi. He did not change the country, it took the bloody revolution after him to do the trick. He got the credit but he didn’t get the affect.
Sure.
Declaration of Independence & US Constitution
RIP
Righto. They messed with it from the getgo, especially Hamiltonian/Marshallian Federalists. Things weren’t horribly awry until 1861. Then constitutional government slipped away for four years,; decades in certain sections of the country. Wilson lighted the way. Hoover was the first to treat peacetime disaster as equivalent to war. FDR maimed it. SCOTUS kept it on life support fir a bit, then for no good reason pulled the plug in 37, killing the Constitution for good 75 years ago.
The Revolution Was, as Garrett Garrett put it. I remember thinking the first time I seriously read the Constitution—in junior high when I should’ve been paying attention in class—what is this? Doesn’t sound anything like what I see on the news. So it’s always sorta been dead letters to me.
Both are required.
/johnny
I don’t. EOM.
Ghandi wasn’t even much of a distraction. The spilled blood made the change. The Brits were more than willing to keep up with the likes of Ghandi. It was the bloodshed and the need for expensive troops that got them to let go.
Intent is a trap to which we can’t seem to help falling prey. Original meaning is what matters, not intent. The latter is far too nebulous. Plus, what happens when the Framers screw up and say something different than intended? Meaning must trump intent, otherwise we’d be as bad as the lefties for pretending absent words are present and present words don’t matter.
Somewhere I've got vid of an old, old woman talking about how she saw him when she was a child, at a railway station.
He did matter. He visited the Queen. Children remarked on his humble appearance.
Fast forward to the '60s. Where did America lose the war? In the field? No. Not even with the evil dip---- that was SecDef.
We lost that war in the living room of America in front of the warm radiation of B&W televisions.
Uncle Walter played a large part in that.
/johnny
Yes, I agree. I guess that intent is way too open to today’s interpretation. I agree - Original meaning is much better. Sure wish that that interpretation was more prominent today.
Sorry about the use of that that...but sometimes clarity is necessary...heh.
We do not need to fear for Justice Roberts. Perhaps he should fear for himself.
I think convening a convention is the only responsible way to preserve the constitution. Too many loopholes have been found in the last 200 years and they need to be closed. By us.
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