His "Restoring the Lost Constitution" is superb and should be on every Freeper's bookshelf.
http://randybarnett.com/
For the Founder's meaning of Necessary and Proper
Posted on 04/02/2012 3:59:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
> Most American voters worry about the Constitution.
That was then.
This is now.
I venture that a majority of Americans either don’t know or don’t care about the Constitution.
Bump
The constitution, applied as written, would not only piss off liberals, but would piss off a majority of the so called conservatives. Sacred cows would be gored.
The only way back is to enforce original intent. The first step would be to repeal the 17th amendment.
Not only is Obamacare unconstitutional, it is a gateway to the diminution of all other freedosm we have in the Bill of Rights.
For example, once Obama care gets going they can charge exhorbitant extra risk premiums say, if you have firearms in your house, because they are a “health risk.” Private Insurance is not involved in fascist social engineering. Any ability of government to do that should be curtailed and destroyed.
"I venture that a majority of Americans either don’t know or don’t care about the Constitution."
It is only true of liberals. Everyone knows that they hate the Constitution and that that most of them don't even know the Constitution.
Probably because many of American's are new American's and don't understand the Constitution. Look at the things happening in this country as pieces of a larger puzzle...put them together and you should make out that we're being destroyed from within. Liberal/progressives want to destroy the Constitution and turn us into a socialist country, Hispanics want to turn USA into Mexico Two, homosexuals want us to accept their lifestyles as normal to under-mind our moral foundation, and radical Muslims want to change, no demand we change our religion to theirs. Let all that happen and what's left?
We’re doomed.
Ok, agreed, then the first step in accomplishing that must be to get conservative majorities in 3/4 of the state legislatures, correct?
“Let all that happen and what’s left?
Bankruptcy.
...that is what it was put there for.
The liberal attack on the court is already under way. It has become the theme to warn that if obamacare is struck down, the activists who invented the corporate person and who selected George Bush president will be taking away our right to health care.
Who cares about the constitution when the benevolent Feds just want to send “boatloads of money” to the states? /kagan
His "Restoring the Lost Constitution" is superb and should be on every Freeper's bookshelf.
http://randybarnett.com/
For the Founder's meaning of Necessary and Proper
The vast majority of Americans believe that anything congress passes and the president signs must be okay.
The vast majority of Americans believe we live in a democracy and anything the majority wants is okay
The vast majority of Americans don’t like to think about this stuff because it’s so hard.
Democrats don’t worry about the Constitution it’s why they all voted for Obamacare.
Our system of government was designed to keep all politics local..... your vote for your state representative mattered, because this was the person that would send a senator to washington to represent your state’s interests.....the number of votes needed to appoint a senator varies from state to state... at the time of ratification some states used simple majority, others did not. What people fail to realize is that the house of representatives is the peoples house, and the senate was meant to be the states house. The senate is now the political parties house, kinda like the old soviet union.
“I venture that a majority of Americans either don’t know or don’t care about the Constitution.”
The 2010 elections suggest otherwise.
What you said.
All I was saying was, in order for the 17th to be repealed, 3/4 of state legislatures would have to be in conservative constitutionalist hands to ratify, because liberals, knowing exactly what you stated, would vote against repeal.
>>That means that every federal official has an obligation to act in line with the Constitution as he or she understands it. And that doesn’t necessarily mean obeying Supreme Court decisions. <<
WRONG, WRONG, A THOUSAND TIMES WRONG!!!!!
It is NOT open to individual interpretation. It is what it is and the Supreme Court was set up to be the final arbiter. If we start messing around with individual interpretation and selective acceptance, be very careful. Not only is the Constitution shredded, but also the rule of law. And that leads to anarchy.
That the Supremes have not made bad decisions (Dred Scott, Roe v. Wade, Kelo, etc.) is a fact. Disobeying those bad decisions is a moral obligation. DeathCare fits the bill since abortion is included.
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