Lyle Denniston is the National Constitution Center’s adviser on constitutional literacy. He has reported on the Supreme Court for 55 years, currently covering it for SCOTUSblog, an online clearinghouse of information about the Supreme Court’s work.
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Libs and others try the same logic with the Bible. Both works were created in a way that they span time.
Devotion to the Constitution preserves republican government, which is the point.
No, devotion to democracy is destroying the Constitution.
There is nothing wrong with the Constitution. The logic used internally works just fine.
It only starts to come apart as people try to invent crap to get around it.
Like this “democracy” crap. We are NOT a “democracy”. We are a Republic.
Why ever have a Constitution? Our Constitution is timeless. Communists want to be timeless. The Constitution ruins their evil plans.
Ignoring the Constitution is what is destroying the Representative Republic.
The Constitution is explicitly anti-democracy.
Thank God.
I would hope so since America was set up as a Constitutional representative republic, not a democracy. The Founding Fathers hated and abhorred democracy.
Yes, yes it is! And it’s about damn time! Let’s restore the Republic!
“National Constitution Center” Huh, This “outfit’s” “
Board of Trustees” looks like a Whose-Who is Elitist HACKS:
http://constitutioncenter.org/about/board-of-trustees/
If someone is of the opinion that that Constitution needs changing, the method is clear; amend it according to the rules set forth in the Constitution. As amended, it remains a contract between the States and the Federal Government, and as long as there are States in the United States it needs to be observed as written, as do all written contracts. If the words in the Constitution don’t mean anything, then the words in all other contracts don’t mean anything, nor do they in law. Words may not be perfect or immortal, but they are all we have to communicate and come to agreement.
Only the Liberal version of the Constitution.
The Founding Fathers Rejected Democracy
http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/06/29/the-founding-fathers-rejected-democracy/#.UoJpAeKRQSo
Democracy is Mob Absolutism
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2556848/posts
America is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy!
http://www.scwteaparty.com/ConstRepublic.html
Todd Akin says The Founding Fathers despised Democracy
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/21/1122483/-Todd-Akin-The-Founding-Fathers-despised-Democracy
(It’s difficult to believe that the Kos Kiddies actually posted this on their own website.)
The Constitution was written to prevent democracy, thus ensuring freedom, essential rights, and the retardation of tyranny.
We do not live in a “democracy”. Professor Neuborne needs to take a remedial America 101.
The Constitution was designed to destroy democracy.
Next question.
Keep in mind that democracy wasn’t pushed into this country until the early 1900s particularly with the Woodrow Wilson administration using his famous making the world “safe for democracy” catchphrase during WWI.
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/democracy.html
The American system is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. A democracy, if you attach meaning to terms, is a system of unlimited majority rule; the classic example is ancient Athens. And the symbol of it is the fate of Socrates, who was put to death legally, because the majority didn’t like what he was saying, although he had initiated no force and had violated no one’s rights.
Democracy, in short, is a form of collectivism, which denies individual rights: the majority can do whatever it wants with no restrictions. In principle, the democratic government is all-powerful. Democracy is a totalitarian manifestation; it is not a form of freedom . . . .
The American system is a constitutionally limited republic, restricted to the protection of individual rights. In such a system, majority rule is applicable only to lesser details, such as the selection of certain personnel. But the majority has no say over the basic principles governing the government. It has no power to ask for or gain the infringement of individual rights.
I’d say the communist manifesto is also a very old document written by white men in a different world. Does this mean we can fire every left winger in Washington?