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To: marktwain
"...Written more than 200 years ago, when America had 13 states and very different problems"

This displays the core conceit of Liberalism, which is that it is the Government's role to solve every problem. The truth is, the people solve the problems themselves.

3 posted on 01/01/2011 6:33:02 AM PST by Haiku Guy (What we've got here is ... failure to communicate.)
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To: Haiku Guy

Our Constitution, whatever its perceived flaws, is far better than the constitution of Great Britain. It has NONE.

There are no constitutional restraints on the raw power of the English government. NONE. Hence the arrival of the welfare state and socialized medicine in England. Hence the decline and fall of the secular and drunken British state.


8 posted on 01/01/2011 6:40:55 AM PST by heye2monn
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To: Haiku Guy
The "we had different problems so long ago" line is a canard, and an easily-defeated one at that. Simply go line-by-line through the Bill of Rights, and ask which of those issues has now changed...

Should we allow the government to now dictate Religion, by establishing or outlawing certain faiths?
Maybe let them now deny Free Speech?
Deny the Right to Assemble or Petition?
How about allowing random Search and Seizure?
Deny Due Process? Also Double Jeopardy?
Force Self-Incrimination?
Deny Eminent Domain (one of the liberals' favorite new moves)?
Deny Jury Trials, Public Trials, and Speedy Trials?
Deny the Right to Counsel?
Allow Excessive Bail and Cruel and Unusual Punishment?
House troops in our homes?

Come on, Progressive Folk! Tell us which of those out-dated concepts you need removed from that sad, useless, inapplicable old document!!!

31 posted on 01/01/2011 7:23:20 AM PST by Teacher317 (really?)
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To: Haiku Guy

Well I agree with him ,Is He a journalist? I dont believe in Freedom of the Press anymore they should all be arrested and executed


33 posted on 01/01/2011 7:32:06 AM PST by ballplayer
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To: Haiku Guy

The only real problem that liberals have with the constitution is that, it set up government “of the people, by the people, and for the people”.


41 posted on 01/01/2011 8:22:43 AM PST by adorno
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