Wilson was a big proponent of the “living Constitution” approach wherein the meaning of the Constitution was to be determined within the context of the “spirit of the age”. This “spirit” was, according to him, to be devined by an elite cohort especially trained for the purpose. Naturally, this elite would be made up of him and his progressive ilk, drawing their guidance from the Frankfurt school.
All the evils of this world - at least since the establishment of our Constitution - can be directly attributed to those who would destroy our republic. Slavery, Great Depression, WWI, WWW2, Korea, Vietnam, Overthrow of the Shah, North Korea’s nuclear program, the Middle East mess, and on and on.
Heading the list of evil men who have held the Presidency are WW, FDR, LBJ, JEC, WJC and BHO. These men are traitors to be despised as much as Benedict Arnold.
May God have mercy on them, for I will not.
Sometime in the next 5-15 years the 2nd amendment will prove to be the most important and, quite possibly, the most frequently employed amendment.
Tree of liberty, etc.
There exist two fundamentally irreconcilable philosophies of governance in the United States, and they will have it out, one way or another. Both cannot survive.
Dear Dipstick Beltway Progressives, Those of us in flyover country are not helpless, we are hard working, energetic, ingenious and clever. We want you to let us alone, really, really. Please go away. Thnx. Honestly, I am so tired of the plantation mentality of our Progressive Overlords. It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.
The ‘American Dream” is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. An impenetrable defense and a sound civil justice system secure life and liberty. The pursuit of happiness means spiritual prosperity within the hazards and uncertainties of personal freedoms. It does not mean the government will ensure the protection of home values, college funds, retirement accounts, savings, executive severance packages, affordable healthcare, homeownership, lifetime employment, corporate wealth, political careers, and union benefits. Those are examples of a social welfare system become the dominate source of profligate spending and the acquisition of power. Because entitlements have been sacrosanct, they have grown astronomically since Lyndon Johnson introduced Medicare and Medicaid with his Great Society.
When Eisenhower’s made his famous military industrial complex speech most fail to note he emphasized concern about a proper balance between the private and public economy. Eisenhower concern was the military, but in our time current government transfer payments are now nearly twice corporate net income. However, military security expenditures account for about one sixth of corporate profits.
Placing too much money, and therefore power, in the public sector endangers our personal liberties. Federal administrative laws and regulations are the soft underbelly of our Constitution. Under English common law, which serves as the basis for our Constitution, a person is innocent and not subject to the penalties of the law until proved guilty. Under administrative law like Roman civil law a person is subject to its penalties and restrictions until they discover a way to legally extricate themselves.
We must retain the understanding that pursuit of happiness means spiritual prosperity within the hazards and uncertainties of personal freedoms. Politicians continually offer enchanting material security, while obscuring subservience to rules vastly increasing their power. Their legislation attacks our Bill of Rights by confiscating speech and religious freedoms, personal life without access to courts and trial, and Ninth Amendment personal freedoms guaranteed, but not enumerated by our Constitution. Personal iberty must must be a condition precedent to commencing a debate on any legislation.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. When the rights of man are subordinated to some higher authority, either mystical or social, statist tyranny is the result.
To Progressives, democracy means convincing the rubes to follow you, and if they refuse, to force them to follow you through “progressively” more coercive means.
Unlike the English monarchy, we are not “subjects” of the sovereign. We are the sovereign. Unlike the Englishman, we did not have to wrest our rights away from the Crown and secure them through various documents such as the magna carta. Unlike the French socialists, we did not trade our natural individual rights for the superior security of “civil rights” and subordination to the benefit of the majority.
The tenth acknowledges that, as sovereigns, we delegated only certain power and authority over our actions to government. We allocated a specific portion to the federal government and a portion to the states and we retained the rest as our own individual business - our liberty free from external government.
Government being government has greatly enlarged itself beyond the limited powers we gave it. The federal government using the spending power and the “authority” of International agreements, has shredded the constitution, expanding far beyond the enumerated powers we gave it. Now the President is implementing International agreements administratively, by-passing Congress all together. The feds have constantly encroached upon the state's powers as well as pushed the boundaries of the Bill of Rights. The State, in turn, has regulated the individual’s domain out of existence until we approach a socialistic system. The tea party is the first movement of recent date to recognize that individuals joining together can once again exert the power of the sovereign without doing a total reset on the social compact.