Posted on 10/20/2016 1:38:27 PM PDT by Trump20162020
WASHINGTON ― Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump advocated for a literal interpretation of the Constitution during the third, and final debate, on Wednesday.
The justices that Im going to appoint will be pro-life, they will have a conservative vent, Trump said in response to a question about how the Constitution should be interpreted. They will be protecting the Second Amendment. They are great scholars in all cases ― and theyre people of tremendous respect. They will interpret the Constitution the way the founders wanted it interpreted.
Thats not cool. Heres what was going on when the Constitution was written in 1787.
1. Slavery was legal. Black people were enslaved.
2. Enslaved Africans were considered to be three-fifths of a person.
3. Only white people were considered to be people.
4. Only white men who owned property could vote.
5. LGBT couples couldnt get married.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
This writer is pure stupid. She ignores the 13th amendment and gets worse from there.
It’s right under where the second amendment mentions muskets.
Those dimb bastads, maybe Trump should have used the words “The constitution and it’s current amendments”. Are people really that dumb? The right to keep and bear arms was not in the original constitution either. That’s why we call it the second amendment.
No let’s interpret it the way some leftwing skank on the SCOTUS wants. Like one who said she would hit Justice Scalia with a baseball bat.
Maybe they killed him, she certainly expressed the intent.
The United States Constitution is the finest political document ever created in all of human history. All Americans should preserve, protect and defend it. Anyone who, in their conscience, cannot, should leave.
1. Slavery was legal. Black people were enslaved.
2. Enslaved Africans were considered to be three-fifths of a person.
3. Only white people were considered to be people.
4. Only white men who owned property could vote.
Obviously the author has never heard of the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th and 26th Amendments.
They found LGBT in the Constitution, that’s all I need to know. Cause it’s not there and doesn’t belong there and wasn’t “added” by any legal process.
“We need to start calling racist the people who moan about “3/5ths of a person.””
Or tell them that they obviously only have 3/5th of a brain.
I just don’t understand how you can be so blind.
It’s right there in the “PENUMBRAS and the EMANATIONS”.
Any half competent PROG/LIB can see them clearly, your just not PROG/LIB enough to see them and understand.
do I really need to tell you that’s sarcasm?
The first place I check is the NYT.
Do I really need the /s?
Just goes to show you guys know nothing. Everyone knows the Washington Post is the repository of all constitutional thought!
Shrillary, in her comments on the SCOTUS, did not even frickin’ mention the constitution, as far as I recall. She talked as though the SC is about nothing but taking a poll of “progressive” opinions. SHe needs to be knocked down hard on this.
Also, the way Chris Wallace framed the question was outrageously biased, he asked where should the SC “Take the country” as though it is up to the SC to decide how to shape and determine the entire future of the country (of course that is how libtards view the matter).
Trump missed a big opportunity to point out the biases of the MSM and Democrats to making the SC the supreme dictators of the land, which was certainly never what the constitution described (their role is very limited in the constitution). He did answer well on the kind of justices he will appoint, but I think his campaign needs to hit more on the broader constitutional themes, too.
But then, of course, the MSM and libtards try to use the judiciary to dictate laws, control all outcomes and behaviors, rule as though the other 2 branches of govt do not matter.
“These people are PURE EVIL.”
Pure STUPID, too.
Meet the people running your country.
I warned you not to vote for them, but you did anyway.
So have a nice day. :)
This snowflake fascist-in-training never heard of amendments.
This article is *the* definition of propaganda. It has *some* basis in “fact”, but they eliminate subsequent facts to promote a narrative.
These people are beyond sickening. The freak probably doesn’t realize how their brain is completely scrubbed and programmed with Liberalism v1.0.
The author is attempting to imply that Trump wants to return the country to the same social conditions as existed in 1787. That is a lie.
Huffington Post is a rag filled with willful ignorance.
“But there is a constitutional process to change the constitution, that has worked pretty well.”
Yes ... and liberals HATE that process because it is so very difficult to enact.
That’s why they build a house of cards out of judicial rulings to get what they want.
We need to start calling racist the people who moan about 3/5ths of a person.
Or tell them that they obviously only have 3/5th of a brain.
They already consider unborn babies as not quite human,
that makes them human racists.
"Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton took a more measured approach.Perhaps that genius mind of the Author of America's Declaration of Independence might provide an expanded and better bit of advice on the role of the Supreme Court than the provincial views expressed by the Alinsky-trained and "Progressive" mind of Clinton:'The Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful ― on the side of the powerful corporations and the wealthy, she said. For me, that means that we need a Supreme Court that will stand up on behalf of womens rights, on behalf of the rights of the LGBT community, that will stand up and say no to Citizens United.'" - Clinton, Huffington Post
"On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." --Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823. ME 15:449
"Strained constructions... loosen all the bands of the Constitution." --Thomas Jefferson to George Ticknor, 1817. FE 10:81
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