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To: marron; zimfam007; plsjr; WKUHilltopper
I don't disagree with the author. It is ultimately our responsibility to protect our rights.

However, I would add that every major unconstitutional program or its ancestor were challenged to Scotus and found to be constitutional.

Imagine how different our culture and society would be if income taxes were not progressive (therefore flat), if religious freedom was not banned from the public square, if direct transfer payments did not exist, if we did not have a fiat currency, if unelected bureaucrats could not write regulations with the force of law, if abortion were left to the states, if the commerce and general welfare clauses were not twisted into shapes unimaginable by our Framers, if racial preferences did not exist, the list goes on.

My point is that our country was radically transformed these past 70 years by an out of control institution largely beyond the influence of we the people and there isn't a d@amn thing we can do about it.

34 posted on 10/04/2009 3:12:16 AM PDT by Jacquerie (An Elective Despotism was not the government we fought for - James Madison)
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To: Jacquerie
I agree with all you say, but the last - It's not that there isn't anything we can do about it, it's whether we have the 'nads do do what is necessary.

Our Founders gave us the example and the means, we've just been unwilling to act (so far). The FR posting Intellectual Ammo: Constitution Made Easy provides resources that can enlighten.

Otherwise, look forward to life in a fascist country.

36 posted on 10/04/2009 3:35:00 AM PDT by plsjr (<>< ... reality always gets the last vote.)
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