John Locke
John Locke (b. 1632, d. 1704)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/
Posted on 06/13/2005 7:29:51 AM PDT by TheOtherOne
I believe that James Madison, who wrote the amendments, agreed with Hamilton on that. That we would think the "Bill of Rights" were our only rights. In fact, that is exactly what most of us now do think. I hate to think how many times I have seen a post by a freeper stating that this right or that right is not spelled out in the Constitution, as if we are limited to the rights spelled out in the first 10 amendments.
Or conversely, how many times does one see posts arguing that our government is not prohibited from doing this or doing that, so it must be legal.
When in fact, our government is limited to the powers enumerated, while our freedom is unlimited, restricted only by those laws which our society has found necessary.
It seems to give states immunity from federal lawsuits, or from lawsuits using federal law. Last year, two men in Florida sued a state university citing age discrimination. The age discrimination law was federal, and the university claimed immunity under the 11th Amendment. The judge agreed and threw the case out.
You need to find a new source. Your constitution is an amendment short.
Simple and clear are beautiful words that most dismiss as ignorance and stupidity, as they do not allow for the prattling of the "intellectual elite" to use 15 letter words, that most have never heard of, in 10,000 word commentaries, that once uttered, render said rhetoric ineffective, as they fail to corroborate the essence of their thesis. I think ;*)
I really can't understand why it's become so muddied.
All the better to "alter" the original intent such as those posted in #46.
Ever notice how many people seem to think that "Give us your tired, your poor...." is part of the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence.
the anti-federalists were also very prescient
. Everyone knows that is part of the LA Clippers draft guidelines.
That explains the new ending: "....your huddled masses and criminal element..."
BTTT
Yes, ingnorance scares me.
Emma Lazarus...'founding mother' who knew.
Wasn't that Baby Spice of the Spice Girls?
Do you mean the original anti-federalists, the Nationalists, or do you mean the federalists that the anti-federalist started calling the anti-federalists and then themselves the federalists?
No one ever claimed that adoption of the Constitution was consistent with the Articles of Confederation. That wasn't the point. We ditched the AofC, just as we ditched tbe British Crown.
"I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag" - Craig Washington
"I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation" - Carl Sagan
"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive" - Edward Gibbon
"If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch." -Thurgood Marshall
"Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind." -Hugo Black
"Since when is "public safety" the root password to the Constitution?" - C.D. Tavares
"The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government." -Ayn Rand
"The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny." -Hugo Black
"Even where Congress has the authority under the Constitution to pass laws requiring or prohibiting certain acts, it lacks the power directly to compel the States to require or prohibit those acts." -Supreme Court
John Locke
John Locke (b. 1632, d. 1704)
Sure he matters. I see your John Locke and raise you a John Milton.
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