Posted on 06/17/2010 7:52:51 AM PDT by pissant
Never heard of pot brownies I take it...
trumped.
The Constitution put into practice the philosophy of Natural Law as expressed in the Declaration.
On what basis would you design a government? What should good government depend on?
Actually, the term “good men” is completely wrong.
There is no one good, not one.
A more accurate way of putting it is that a government founded in liberty (the first/only one in history) depended on a population that, in general, recognized and feared the authority of the Christian/Jewish God.
You can have a government founded in liberty on these assumptions, or you can have a government that isn’t based on individual liberty.
There is no piece of paper or contract that will maintain the freedom of the people if they are not internally governed. Not with the human race being what it is.
Agree with you wholeheartedly, mom! My college roommate’s grandfather had terminal colon cancer in his early 70s. Every time we saw him he was high as a kite, but that man was hale and hearty down to his last days. He never took a single pill they prescribed him and instead smoked pot all day, every day. He was so happy to be hungry and to be “relatively” pain free that he would smoke right in front of cops if he wanted to. He figured they weren’t going to do anything to him that the cancer wouldn’t take away soon enough.
He actually lived three years longer than the doctors gave him.
Jeez, just how old ARE you??? Oh, wait, you meant 1971-1983, etc... ;)
Motivation was the hardest part for me. I suffer from anxiety issue as well, so when I would smoke, it would quell the anxious feelings, but all of the stuff that made me anxious was still there when I wasn’t high. I decided to use the anxiety to my advantage and plowed through honey-dos and home improvement chores in the course of a few weekends.
Being sober now for 10 weeks, pot included, I can say my life is astronomically better than I ever imagined I could make it.
It’s been the ultimate lesson of my young adult life, Wuli. I’ll never forget it, because I’ve lived on the other side, remember every bad thing about it and don’t want to become that person again.
Doesn’t really matter...if you grow pot to eat it, you still get in trouble. Pot brownies are illegal too. : )
With what chains would Huck tie down government?
From what I understand of Huck,
he doesn’t believe our Constitution was adequate for tying down the government.
In actuality, unless the people recognize the authority of God, individual liberty and a government to protect it cannot exist.
I would love to hear the alternative composed of
a people not governed by any internal controls,
yet living in freedom under some governmental structure.
Just how can this be implemented?
LOL...I am rather amused by this statement of hers.
A city can be virtuous only when the citizens who have a share in the government are virtuous, and in our state all the citizens share in the government;
My corollary: An immoral and decadent people who send dirtbags to Congress and the Presidency deserve the tyranny that will result.
For Huck, what do you think of John Adams' statement in my tag?
I would say that, yes, they deserve what they get (read Romans 1:18-),
but that it is INEVITABLE that they will live in tyranny, whether they "deserve" it or not.
I am not a Sarah-bot in the least, but I must say that I agree with her.
Re; your tagline. It’s obviously untrue. There are countless examples of governments that rest on brute force and intimidation.
You can forget that. What the Constitution created is here to stay, as long as there is a USA.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
Was the national government created by the Constitution the least necessary to serve the common interests of the Union? I say the verdict is in, and has been in for quite some time now.
John Adams reflects Blackstone and Locke and Montesquieu that tyranny follows a government consolidated in one assembly, like Congress under your silly Articles.
That’s right, democracy is a perversion of a republic, a notion.
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