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It better. I won’t live by any other law.
The 2010 election is a hopeful sign. We’ll know more in 2013.
We are in the final stages of a marxist takeover, IMHO. We'll see.
...if people ask me that,I tell them to read it.
It will mean more when Congress declares a formal state of war before bombing other countries.
The short answer is.... No. The federal government has had a history of trampling upon it whenever it suited them. To restore its relevance blood would have to be shed I think. At least thats what history has taught us.
I’ll bet that essay is barely over 500 words, but Thomas Sowell said more about the reasons for America’s founding, and the reasons for defending our founding principles, than nearly anything else I’ve read.
He also takes a huge sword of truth to the sheep’s clothing of liberalism. Just brilliant....as always.
Go to the National Archives in Wash DC. All day, every day, you will find a long line of Americans wanting to see with their own eyes the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights. They don’t want to see a copy you can find at any tourist shop around the city. They want to see the real deal.
It does to us but it don’t mean shit to hose in power. Unless it suits their purpose. If we,as a whole, acted in a manner to make those in power respect us,much less fear us, they would not be doing half the crap they are doing and getting away with it.
If you feel any Federal program is warranted, then you dont believe in the constitution.
Outside of the enumerated powers outline under art 1 sec 8 the federal government has no power.
Not at all to all the RATS and a lot of GOPS.
George Washington Farewell Address
Categories: Constitution
Date: 1796
If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield.
Answer: Only to powerless conservatives.
Its supposed to matter but sadly it doesnt. Look at the courts. It doesnt matter what the constitution does or doesnt say about an issue, what matters is who nominated the judge to the position. Clinton, carter or obama nominee and the result is a foregone conclusion and completely predictable. Theyll merely conjure some foolishness to fit their agenda. The same can be said for our side but possibly to a lesser extent.
The Right took a beating in the courts this week with Obamacares DICTATES to purchase insurance, U of Michigan told they should show preferences for minorities, and the South Dakota 3 day abortion waiting period all going against us. Im disheartened that the only thing one side of an issue needs to know in order to win is who appointed the judge and shop around until you find your puppet justice.
Its difficult to celebrate anything this 4th because this experiment in liberty and self governance is clearly coming to a close.
If obama is reelected we can kiss the backstop for much of this leftist dictatorial rubbish, the USSC, goodbye. Scalia, Thomas and yes, Kennedy are all potentials to hang it up. You think the Warren court was liberal you aint seen nothing yet! Because of that, no matter who our nominee is, I feel obligated to vote for him or her.
Calvin Coolidge speech on the Occasion of the 150 anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Categories: Declaration of Independence
Date: July 5, 1926
About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restfull. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.
Not to congress or the White House.