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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The final paragraph is powerful if one considers that the "Progressive" dream--whether held by Democrats or Republicans--is that no citizen will be elected to the Presidency who will demand a return to the Constitution's strict limits on the role and limits of power in government.

Coincidentally, we all know that Andrew Jackson was ceremoniously demoted from his position on the currency. Perhaps, with time, students won't even be allowed to read his powerful statements on central banking or on the Constitution.

Let's just review a couple here.

From Page xv of "Our Ageless Constitution," here are excerpted words from President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation of December 10, 1832:

"We have received it [the Constitution] as the work of the assembled wisdom of the nation. We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe. We have looked to it with sacred awe as the palladium of our liberties, and with all the solemnities of religion have pledged to each other our lives and fortunes here and our hopes of happiness hereafter in its defense and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution . . .? No. We were not mistaken. The letter of this great instrument is free from this radical fault. . . . No, we did not err! . . . The sages . . . have given us a practical and, as they hoped, a permanent* Constitutional compact. . . . The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace: it shall descend, as we have received it, uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity. . . ."

*Underlining added for emphasis

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Yet, Jackson's wise caution in the following words, reminds us of the unique perspective early generations of Americans possessed on the Source and meaning of our Constitution's protections for liberty, as well as the need for each generation's responsibility for defending and protecting it:

“It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered. It is against such designs, whatever disguise the actors may assume, that you have especially to guard yourselves. You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May He who holds in His hands the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed and enable you, with pure hearts and pure hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time the great charge He has committed to your keeping.” ― Andrew Jackson

9 posted on 05/01/2016 1:53:57 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: loveliberty2

The Cheap Labor Express has always gotten the amnesty candidate they paid for. Every election since the last amnesty.
They will not allow the citizens to elect a President who will enforce the laws and borders.


10 posted on 05/01/2016 1:59:50 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: loveliberty2

What you posted reminds me that I am sad that so many in this country are uninformed about the constitution, it’s birth and it’s importance. It seems there is very little to hold together the fabric of this country in this age of reality stars.


19 posted on 05/01/2016 4:35:57 PM PDT by Savage Rider
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