Posted on 11/18/2010 10:28:03 AM PST by ForGod'sSake
America’s Founding Fathers established something unprecedented - the first government strictly limited by a written Constitution to a short list of activities. The federal government was authorized to do only what was specified in the Constitution. Anything else was to be done by state or local governments, by the people themselves acting outside government, or not at all.
The Constitution didn’t limit what citizens could do. Its only purpose was to spell out - enumerate - what was permissible for the federal government to do. And anything not authorized was forbidden to the federal government.
This ideal of limited government was sometimes violated – but violations were the exception rather than the rule. And many of the violations that did occur were reversed later, because it was understood that the Constitution limited the role of the federal government.
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Oh, they voted it out in 2008. Ya see.....only the government can help people. Haven't you heard? We're all victims.
Any way, gotta go.......I think the Mail Man just dropped off my check.
Try direct deposit, I don’t even have to get up off the couch.
Interesting article. I haven’t read it all the way through, but I strongly disagree with one key point by the author. I don’t think the Civil War was not the first step in the demise of this nation as envisioned by its founders. In fact, I would make the case that this vision of freedom and liberty lasted very long at all . . . and basically ended with the events surrounding the Whiskey Rebellion in the early 1790s. That was the first major clash between the ideas of Federal and State governance, and the Feds “won” — in a sense that they had no qualms about sending Federal troops from one state to quell an apparent insurrection in another.
Our birthright of liberty has been sold for a bowl of pottage...
America is an idea. Kill the idea and the real estate isn’t all that exceptional.
Why is that so hard for people to understand. American exceptionalism was just a manifestation of FREEDOM.
Hard to argue against that and I don't know what criteria the author used to make his determinations. As most are aware by now, Hamilton and his statist cabal began attacking around the periphery of our Constitution before the ink was dry. The first Chief Justice and fellow statist at times, John Marshall, contributed mightily to weakening the bindings also. A matter of degree I suppose...
LOL
But, how do you get another beer?
Indeed. Though blessed with abundant natural resources, geologically, America is not that much different than the rest of the world. But what is accomplished with and produced by those resources makes a huge difference. Was America initially an ideal as well as an idea???
A refrigerated keg with a tap next to your sofa. That way, you just have to put your mug under the tap and pull the lever. Perhaps while still seated with the right arrangements.
I just have one of my 8 kids from 6 mothers grab them for me.
I am trying to fight childhood obesity and the walks will do them good, don't cha think?
"Today the Bill of Rights is just a quaint piece of parchment that few in Washington take seriously - lest it interfere with government’s power to do what’s right for you:"The following 'gem' is right from the White Hose Website. It's near the bottom, under:
The 2nd Amendment says: “. . . the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”"But Congress routinely passes laws that prevent you from defending yourself. Needless to say, the politicians don’t disarm themselves.....
'Our Government', The Constitution, The Bill Of RightsThat's the 'mentality' of the Kenyan Interloper. That the government GIVES US our Rights. Not God, and they're certainly not unalienable. Because as we know, anything that the government "gives", it can take away.
And this (cough) 'Gem' reads as follows:'The Second Amendment "gives" citizens the right to bear arms.'Got that everyone? According to the White House, aka Obama, It "GIVES US THE RIGHT", it doesn't "protect our Right"
This little word game isn't used only with the 2A. Every one of the Bill of Rights from the White House website has that tiny and seemingly innocuous alteration.
[I stumbled upon this by accident and my head almost exploded!]
Good catch. I daresay it would apply to most Dimtards and a lot of RINO's as well. WE just don't know what's good for us! If the parasites only realized what the host has in store for them just as soon as the gummint can silence conservatives...
Liberty frightens the wits out of some people.
Why that is so calls for some interesting speculation.
An ideal is an idea. But now we're getting into semantics.
Into the crapper circa 1906!
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