The Constitution...Who Cares?

AIPNews.com ^ | April 20, 2010 | David M. Berman

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

The Constitution...Who Cares?

"I'll take 'Potential Campaign Slogans for Obama/Biden in 2012' for $500, Alex."

[EternalVigilance]

If only it was just the Democrats.

[EdReform]

BTTT

[Loud Mime]

I care and I have written at length about the matter. See my tagline.

To get this nation back on track.....heck, to get the dialogue back on track, we need to work from the Constitution and forget this party-talk.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

True dat.

[EternalVigilance]

To get this nation back on track.....heck, to get the dialogue back on track, we need to work from the Constitution and forget this party-talk.

What a concept!

[Soul Citizen]

BUMP

[Boxsford]

Excellent read. Thank you for posting.

[.338 lapua]

“...to the States, or to the people.” To quote Nancy Pelosi: “ You’ve got to be kidding, you’ve got to be kidding me!”

[EternalVigilance]

My pleasure. Dr. Berman is a solid citizen and a true patriot.

[Repeat Offender]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXAtZkx5Ykc

[Repeat Offender]

A better version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O92dKfqIQxQ&feature=related

[EternalVigilance]

Sweet!

[ex-snook]

If leaders can find a Constitution work-around to go to war with a Congressional Declaration then anything goes.

PS It didn’t start with Bush.

[Ken H]

The unprincipled leaders have stretched this clause to mean that they can regulate anything under the commerce clause. Original intention of the clause is irrelevant to them since they use the clause as a ruse for anything they want. Why do they do this? The answer is simple, they are unprincipled men and women who have no respect for the Constitution that they swore to protect.

Someone should show this article to self-proclaimed originalist Justice Scalia. He thinks the New Deal Commerce Clause is just fine:

...the authority to enact laws necessary and proper for the regulation of interstate commerce is not limited to laws governing intrastate activities that substantially affect interstate commerce. Where necessary to make a regulation of interstate commerce effective, Congress may regulate even those intrastate activities that do not themselves substantially affect interstate commerce.

J. Scalia, concurring in Raich, 6 June 2005

[LALALAW]

FDR = SATAN

[ForGod'sSake]

Timely and prescient article! The basis of the article is what just drives me nuts sometimes when watching the bobblehead interviewers and interviewees on the tube. The infinite variations of the emotional, "It's for the children" appeal is enough to drive a teetotaler to drink! And the interviewer sits there like a mushroom either not knowing or not wanting to ask the obvious questions, "What chapter and verse in the Constitution authorizes this lunacy"? SHEESH, where's the Maalox?!

[LearnsFromMistakes]

we need to work from the Constitution

We need to go back farther, I think. The Declaration of Independence talked about 'inalienable' rights...God-given rights. We need people to understand that, as humans, we have certain rights. The constitution was just our attempt to highlight a few of them, and they did an incredible job.

[TheThinker]

To get this nation back on track.....heck, to get the dialogue back on track, we need to work from the Constitution and forget this party-talk

There will always be political parties, the Constitution doesn't outlaw them.

One party is entrenched in anti-Constitutional thought and guilt mongering.

That party first must be dealt with and there's only one workable party legitimate enough to oppose it.

If the Constitution loses all importance, it will be that party that rules and it will rule mercilessly since it creeps more towards fascism with each passing day.