Posted on 07/20/2005 12:56:24 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
Great idea! With the kind of education anybody under the age of about 50 got in this country, most of them probably didn't even realize we had a Constitution.
Will their copies of the Constitution include the 2nd Amendment? Or will they, like the Bill of Rights posted in the Atlanta ACLU office, just have a blank space there????
Yeah, it's crap like that that makes me want the GOP to act the way the DU crowd thinks we are (which is to say, the conservative equivelent of liberals) and use the liberal-granted gigantic government to impose Christianity and corporate rule over all Americans. They'd be getting what they deserve.
But oh well, it's just an angry thought. Back to shrinking the government.
"Um Sir, my constitution says 'The Communist Manifesto' on the cover."
"Be Quiet!"
I'll bet every one of them are low income welfare receiving Democrats that whine about a lack of entitlement programs.
Don't forget the EPA. Definately not within the realm of Federal authority as far as I can see.
I'm not sure I agree with you on the Foreign Aid, that may fall under the ability to enter into treaties.
As for the "often ill-conceived involvement in foreign wars"...
Section 8, Clause 11: "To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;"
They may be ill-conceived and foolish wars, but they have the power to declare them.
Well, I think of that phrase as true in a sense, but not the sense in which liberals use it. It is a "living document" in the sense that it is amendable and just as relevant to our lives as those who lived when it was written.
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I stopped reading at 'Constitution is a... ...living document...'.
I thought this was scrappleface or onion...
About calling the Constitution a "living" document:
Our Constitution is like a skeleton within the body. The human skeleton is alive, but it can't be bent without injury. Our Constitution is supposed to perform the same function as a skeleton: it should hold up the entire State and protect the internal workings. We can add to it in the way we put on weight to the body; and we can take things away by exercise or cutbacks; but the skeleton is not supposed to be bent out of shape nor broken.
From the short description above, they still won't know much.
It is a backbone. It has some give, some flex. But it doesn't deform without breaking. Under Kelo's stare decisis we see we are become a jelly-fish of a national Constitution. The backbone has been dissolved in the vat of stare-decisis deconstructionism.
They found the short-day and go home early clause. It was written in lemon ink. But under the glare of the transparency projector it showed up.
Departmental director appointee nomination interview question #23:
How would you measure constitutional study among your federal employees after Constitution Day reflections and review?
100% signed in on the sheet, therefore a bonus!
Second thought, was this (fictional) department necessary? Looks like a lot of red tape to me!
Like these droolers didn't get this in junior high..............and if they didn't, shame on them and their public school districts.
"The backbone has been dissolved in the vat of stare-decisis deconstructionism."
Well put.
LOL
Good one.
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