Posted on 04/12/2021 10:52:44 PM PDT by ammodotcom
“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” - Amendment IX, The U.S. Constitution
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” - Amendment X, The U.S. Constitution
“No position appears to me more true than this; that the General Govt. can not effectually exist without reserving to the States the possession of their local rights. They are the instruments upon which the Union must frequently depend for the support and execution of their powers, however immediately operating upon the people, and not upon the States.” - Charles Pinckney, “Plan for a Government for America,” Constitutional Convention, June 25, 1787
“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth.” - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, December, 1787
“Gentlemen indulge too many unreasonable apprehensions of danger to the state governments; they seem to suppose that the moment you put men into a national council [federal government], they become corrupt and lose all their affection for their fellow citizens.” - Alexander Hamilton, Speech to New York Constitutional Convention, 1787
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Recessional of the Sons of the American Revolution:
“Until we meet again, let us remember our obligations to ourDr. Benjamin Franklin, when asked if we had a republic or a monarchy, replied "A Republic, if you can keep it."
forefathers who gave us our Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
an independent Supreme Court and a nation of free men.”
The First Democrat-Republican War amendments killed the 9th and 10th. It gave the Federal Government the power to Legislate Cosmic Law. Just what are equal rights anyway? Whatever the Court of Supreme Whim says it is.
The Great Experiment. The events during and after the election, set to two pieces of music by Joseph Blanchard.
http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/politics/video/2020-The-Grand-Experiment-Joseph-Blanchard-V04.htm
No, both parties abrogated the Constitution when they swore in the ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia.
Better title, I have to give you that.
Perhaps so, but it’s forward thinking slavery that looks beyond race to fairly enslave all.
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