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Donald Trump, Enemy of the Constitution
REASON ^ | 3 Feb 16 | Damon Root

Posted on 03/03/2016 11:05:05 AM PST by elhombrelibre

Trump has trashed free speech, religious liberty, property rights, and limits on executive power.

Here's a question for you to puzzle over. Can you name the single most unconstitutional thing Donald Trump has proposed or endorsed so far in the 2016 presidential race?

Not an easy question to answer, is it? Do you start with Trump's efforts to suppress immigration by gutting the 14th Amendment? Or do you perhaps point to Trump's long war on the Fifth Amendment and its protections for property rights, as exemplified by Trump's embrace of boundless eminent domain powers for the government and Trump's own shameful record of seeking to personally profit when government officials seize homes and businesses and then hand the bulldozed land over to crony capitalist real estate developers?

Either of the above could serve as an answer to my opening question. But when it comes to Trump's unconstitutional agenda, there are plenty of other noxious options to choose from.

What about Trump's call for a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims entering the United States? That stance manages to offend multiple constitutional principles in a single bound, including such bedrock concepts as religious liberty, due process, and equal protection.

Speaking of religious liberty, there is also Trump's belief that the government should have the power to close mosques. Needless to say, the First Amendment plainly forbids the government from taking the truly authoritarian step of shuttering houses of worship, be they mosques, churches, synagogues, or temples.

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To: FredZarguna

Wow all the straw men. You are Satan’s slave. You can stop it at any time but the price is to swallow your own sinful pride.


101 posted on 03/03/2016 3:54:56 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

There is no Satan, and there is no hell. Not the least bit worried about either one of those things. But I am worried about cultists who elevate their darling to Godhead.


102 posted on 03/03/2016 3:55:17 PM PST by FredZarguna (Billy was a simple country boy. You might say a cockeyed optimist...)
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To: FredZarguna

Ha ha ha... you’ll find out there is both and that you have welcomed them all your life.


103 posted on 03/03/2016 3:55:47 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Right. Because opposition to The Divine Donald is a mortal sin.


104 posted on 03/03/2016 3:55:58 PM PST by FredZarguna (Billy was a simple country boy. You might say a cockeyed optimist...)
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To: FredZarguna

Ha ha ha all the strawmen.


105 posted on 03/03/2016 3:56:41 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Blah,blah,blah. Boring.


106 posted on 03/03/2016 3:56:51 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: FredZarguna

Supporting the Divine Donald is a mortal sin.:


107 posted on 03/03/2016 4:03:00 PM PST by beandog (TDS - tRump's Deranged Supporters)
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To: ZULU

Libertarians think they know everything, yet understand nothing of how the real world operates.

Open borders policy has created the conditions to make the US ripe pickings for socialist demagogues. It’s also created a vacuum of power into which foreign governements and NGOs will insert themselves. We’ll have an unelected bureaucracy acting as a continental/world government to contend with on top of our own national government - just like the dumpster fire in the EU.


108 posted on 03/03/2016 4:10:17 PM PST by Eisenhower Republican (Queeg is gone. Keefer's next.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

109 posted on 03/03/2016 10:46:40 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution. Go Cruz.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Because nothing screams presidential like eating a booger on national prime time TV. LOL!


110 posted on 03/03/2016 11:03:12 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Trump has been telling the mass crowds he’s for this & that. But now he’s FLEXIBLE???


111 posted on 03/07/2016 1:45:17 PM PST by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Poor baby. Some adult might actually show you discipline and that bothers the little snowflake.


112 posted on 03/07/2016 1:46:42 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: elhombrelibre
Do you start with Trump's efforts to suppress immigration by gutting the 14th Amendment?

Lost me right there. No Reason in that statement.

113 posted on 03/07/2016 1:53:57 PM PST by Fledermaus (I just don't trust Trump.)
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To: mason-dixon

He has to be able to deal with Congress. Are you naive enough to think they will pass Trump’s agenda carte blanche? Only Ofail can pull that off.


114 posted on 03/07/2016 2:39:02 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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