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Our Unbalanced Constitution and Article V
ArticleVBlog ^ | April 15th 2019 | Rodney Dodsworth

Posted on 07/05/2021 1:05:42 PM PDT by Jacquerie

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1 posted on 07/05/2021 1:05:42 PM PDT by Jacquerie
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Article V ping!


2 posted on 07/05/2021 1:10:48 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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Free government is an impossibility until we restore balance to our beloved Constitution.

That is correct in the extreme.

Unfortunately Constitutional law has failed due to the corruption of a politically motivated judiciary that sees the constitution as not a document to be upheld but an enemy of their beliefs. It is really that simple.

3 posted on 07/05/2021 1:14:17 PM PDT by cpdiii (Cane Cutter, Deckhand, Roughneck, Geologist, Oilfield Constultant, Instructor Pilot, Pharmacist. )
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To: Jacquerie
Free government is an impossibility until we restore balance to our beloved Constitution.

That is correct in the extreme.

Unfortunately Constitutional law has failed due to the corruption of a politically motivated judiciary that sees the constitution as not a document to be upheld but an enemy of their beliefs. It is really that simple.

4 posted on 07/05/2021 1:19:23 PM PDT by cpdiii (Cane Cutter, Deckhand, Roughneck, Geologist, Oilfield Constultant, Instructor Pilot, Pharmacist. )
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Agree. The scotus is tyrannical. It knows no limits. Like the House, Senate and Presidency, it is a political institution.

The pattern was set some twenty years after the 17th Amendment when popularly elected senators rolled over to the will of a wildly popular FDR.

The 17th enabled the New Deal, Great Society, and will do the same with most of the upcoming Green New Deal.


5 posted on 07/05/2021 1:21:22 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

We need to repeal the 16th and 17th amendments, and we need to increase the size of the House of Representatives. Perhaps there should be a maximum number of people a congressional district can contain, roughly equal to hte population of the least populous state.


6 posted on 07/05/2021 1:33:34 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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To: Jacquerie

Great Britain is a country of 68.2 million and there are 650 members of the House of Commons. The United States is a country of 330 million and the House of Representatives consists of 435 members.


7 posted on 07/05/2021 1:37:43 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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Once we get our folks back in power, we need to increase the number of Federal judgeships.


8 posted on 07/05/2021 1:39:54 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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<> roughly equal to the population of the least populous state.<>

A good place to start. With their enormous districts, the House of Reps is hardly representative.


9 posted on 07/05/2021 2:01:59 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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Article the First
10 posted on 07/05/2021 2:31:07 PM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: Jacquerie

What would you think of making representatives “dotted line” to the state assembly? They would have their votes determined by the local reps who are closer to the people?


11 posted on 07/05/2021 2:32:44 PM PDT by Dilbert56
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To: Jacquerie

What would you think of making representatives “dotted line” to the state assembly? They would have their votes determined by the local reps who are closer to the people?


12 posted on 07/05/2021 2:32:45 PM PDT by Dilbert56
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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the governance of any other." October 11, 1798 John Adams

13 posted on 07/05/2021 2:56:43 PM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Bongino says.)
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To: itsahoot

As I related in my post, John Adams wrote much more.


14 posted on 07/05/2021 3:14:45 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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"History had taught that public virtue is the necessary foundation of republics. No republican government could last, said John Adams."

True it is..!! All you need do is use google maps and walk the streets of the third world cities and see all the walls, security gates and concertina wire... Just LOOK and see what our future is going to be when as much as a 25 to 30 percent of the population are common criminals..

The streets belong to the crooks and the people live behind the bars and the walls... :(

15 posted on 07/05/2021 3:32:38 PM PDT by unread (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
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To: rarestia

No joy at your link.


16 posted on 07/05/2021 3:35:11 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: TBP

All these suggestions require the people in power already to legilate against themselves.


17 posted on 07/05/2021 3:42:32 PM PDT by jimfr
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To: Dilbert56

Well, that would remove “consent of the governed” by another degree from the people.


18 posted on 07/05/2021 3:47:29 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

If the HR gets too big it becomes even more unwieldy then it already is !


19 posted on 07/05/2021 3:50:07 PM PDT by Reily
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“The revolution was effected before the war commenced.
The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.
This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments,
and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.”
~John Adams~


20 posted on 07/05/2021 3:53:30 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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