Posted on 07/01/2025 9:29:34 AM PDT by Pol-92064
Friday is #July4th, when we celebrate America’s independence and the documents that made America different, like the Constitution.
But is our Constitution good enough today?
No, it needs to be followed - something activist judges refuse to do.
And 17th!
Repealing every amendment after the 15th would be a step in the right direction.
The part that gives total control of elections to the states could use some tweaking.
Yes. The House and Señate Jañitor Crews and Lawn manicurists should also be able to vote for the Big, Beautiful Circle Jerk Bill! Gotta slow this boy down until Zohrani the Rapper gets on the wagon. This is gonna need some changes of the Constitution signed off by goofy Dipstick Court “judgies” and their illegal alien invader boyfriends.
NO!!!!
It needs to be followed.
Only those who can vote for a candidate may contribute to their campaign.
With that, I would also forbid “dual citizenship” — it’s an oxymoron and goes to the heart of true loyalty whether Natural born or Naturalized.
LMAO. We don’t even follow the Constitution. Most people don’t know what a constitutional republic is, nor do they have the faculties to be able to reason.
So tell me again how a new constitution would serve us?
No, it just needs to be followed without libard interpretation of what it says.
That's the problem: SCOTUS has gutted the Constitution.
Look at Wickard v. Filburn: a patent sophistry for equating possible interstate commerce with actual interstate commerce. This gives Congress the ability to interfere with everything and criminalize activities that are purely local. It's the main source of corruption in Congress.
Look at the wretched "right to privacy" rulings that led to Roe and the grotesque abuse of the Equal Protection clause privileging of sexual deviancy and "gay marriage" as a "right".
Look at pornography as "free speech" as though Patrick Henry said, "Give me pictures of pullulating pudenda or give me death!" Ludicrous on its face. Yet despite "free speech" we have campaign finance restrictions that function as incumbent protection acts.
Etc., etc., etc.
Most of this can now only be corrected by Constitutional amendments.
"Does The Constitution Need an Overhaul?"
Yes!
The key starting point (imo) in overhauling the Constitution is to repeal the 16th (16A; direct taxes) and 17th (17A; popular voting for federal senators) Amendments.
The 16th Amendment is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for organized crime imo, that amendment also wrongly weakening our 4th Amendment protections imo.
Trump-supporting patriots need to do in the 2026 midterm elections what they didn't do in 2024, primary all candidates for state and federal public office who don't publicly promise to support PDJT47 in leading the states to repeal 16&17A.
We'll call the repeal amendment Trump's Boston Tea Party II Amendment.
Once unconstitutional federal taxing and spend is stopped, the states will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues that they probably won't know what to do with imo, healthcare and education on the short list of priorities.
The remaining problem with the rest of the Constitution is scandalously wrong interpretations of it, politically correct, elite Democratic and RINO vote-winning Roe v. Wade (now overturned), an example. The new patriot Congress can not only clean up the judiciary, but also start guaranteeing each state a republican form of government, including enforcing constitutional voting integrity protections.
"Article IV, Section 4: The United States [emphasis added] shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
Additionally, a bunch of constitutionally indefensible federal laws, laws based on stolen state powers because of the still corrupt Congress, need to be taken out of the books, new lawmakers also needing to decide the fate of people in prison for breaking an unconstitutional federal law.
"16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"4th Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Illegals are indeed getting immediate Social Security, contrary to Democrat claims (7.11.24)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
The poiticians and government bureaucrats don’t want to follow the constitution, and don’t, that’s why they want to overhaul it.
I was thinking that a few need to go away.
No, but maybe we could repeal a few amendments.
The other day I got an email from some leftwing outfit (I don’t know how I got on their distribution list) which referred to July 4 as “White Independence Day.” It was mostly a rant about how badly whites had treated “Native Americans.” They claimed that whites had killed 56 million Native Americans. I have no idea where they got that figure. The left likes to exaggerate how many Indians were living in North America before the European colonists arrived, and to ignore how many Europeans were killed by Indians.
Does The Constitution Need an Overhaul?
NO it needs to be enforced the democrats have been chipping away at it for a 100 years and damned near have it destroyed.
Once it’s gone so is America it’s their goal.
Fabian Socialists & American Socialist party nods.
The 17th Amendment caused the biggest change in our government! It moved us away from being a Constitutional Republic to a mobocracy!
Yes.
“Our Constitution was inspired by God.”
And written by sinful men.
“The notion of changing our Constitution is idiotic, much like trying to change God’s written word, the Bible.”
The Bible has been rewritten and changed many time over the centuries.
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