Posted on 08/09/2016 2:18:57 AM PDT by Jacquerie
If we pause for a moment and consider the grand, historic sweep of governing forms in England and America, the conclusion must be that action is needed now to save what precious little remains of free government.
Freedom for our English ancestors waxed and waned in cycles as the Roman empire, Saxon kings, Vikings, William of Normandy, Magna Charta, the rise of Parliament, religious wars came and went. By the mid-18th century, no people on earth were more prosperous than the American colonists of King George III, yet our forebears revolted when they viewed the approach of hard tyranny. Having achieved freedom, and through fits and starts beginning with a loose confederation, then a stronger governing Constitution in 1787, then a civil war, and up to the rise of the progressive era in the early 1900s, American freedom and prosperity flourished like never before for any people in history.
Consider where we might be today if good men had done nothing during the nadirs of freedom these past two thousand years. This is so certain, that what we came to enjoy beyond the misery in which our distant ancestors lived, is due only to the natural right of correcting what was awry in past practices of government.
We all make mistakes in our personal lives; reason demands that we recognize and correct them. In contrast, why do so many continue in the idolatry of our corrupted governing form? Any institution, no matter how old, must be amended if it thwarts or does not provide for the purpose of its establishment. Such are the imperfections of all human Constitutions; they are subject to continual pressures which never permits them to continue long in the same condition, as evidenced by the horrid corruptions that slid into our government after the 16th and 17th Amendments. Those who blindly lend support to institutions that have been turned from their noble purposes follow the worst examples of history.
Evil progressivism, which began slowly enough, picked up speed in the 1960s. Today, it is accelerating at an almost unfathomable rate. The historic cycle of freedom is at low ebb, and without corrective action on the part of the sovereign American people, there is no reason to hope that it shall be reclaimed.
While the Constitution of 1787 was the best governing framework ever struck off by the hand of man, it is up to the best and wisest among us to offer amendments that add perfection to a Constitution that was well invented, but no longer serves its intended purpose.
We are the many; our oppressors are the few. Be proactive. Be a Re-Founder. Join Convention of States. Sign the COS Petition.
What’s with you people anyway? Ever heard of Pandora’s Box? We have a superb Constitution, best in the world - we have a responsibility to uphold it and live by it.
Any new Constitutional convention gives the Left with its huge bag of nut cases their opportunity to infuse it with their insanity.
Stupid beyond words.
Consider the TIME ...
ANY Constitutional extra-activity would require years and years and would be attended by people perhaps not even born yet (that may be a little exaggerated, but you understand what I'm saying).
A right thinking Presidential veto, EO annulment and the bully pulpit CLOUT could accomplish SO much in a matter of days or months.
We did, before it was horribly corrupted. The pity is that we didn't take the time to deal with the usurpations as they occurred.
OTH the Constitution has problems lots of them. Repealing the 16 and 17 amendments would do a lot to restore the republic.
There is nothing to lose at this point
We cannot continue with the Supreme Court in its current form.
It’s my view that Article III does not confer a power of judicial review of statutes as broad as is now exercised, but that’s unimportant. Obviously, by setting the Supreme Court’s appellate powers “with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make”, the Founders did not intend what we have now.
If the current form of the Court is allowed to continue, Congress as such is unnecessary. Just dissolve it, let the 50 Legislatures write the laws, and have the USSC edit them, rewrite them, or disallow them as it pleases them.
I would be stupid to not change the Constitution. It has a lot of issues.
Let’s get rid of the players that violate the rules rather than change the rules and keep the players.
Trading one politician in our corrupted system for another is like exchanging drivers for a car on cinder blocks.
The system - the Constitution - is not corrupt, it is ignored by corrupt organizations controlling our government.
We are trusted in the polling place every two years to elect people who are certain to operate outside the limits of our Constitution, yet we are to be denied the establishment of the only institution that may actually reverse the horrid corruption of our once free republic?
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