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To: Eagle Forgotten; All

Thank you for referencing that article Eagle Forgotten. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

I’m afraid that the only reason that people are concerned about which political party is in control of the federal government is the following. Parents are not making sure that their children are being taught the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.

In fact, military issues aside, given that one of the very few powers that the Founding States gave to Congress to make its existance known to citizens on an almost daily basis is the power to deliver the mail (the Constitution’s Clause 7 of Section 8 of Article I), doesn’t the idea of having political parties for the purpose of deciding policy for the US Mail Service seem a bit strange, an overkill?

The problem is that most of us have grown up under a corrupt federal government. And as a consequence of people not being taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, people are inadvertently indoctrinated to accept the idea of political parties as somehow being an intrinsic aspect of federal politics, instead of waking up to the idea that most of the federal government services that many people are now dependent on are constitutionally indefensible.

Finally, given that some folks want an Article V convention, they might want to consider the following. I think that the next amendment to the Constitution needs to have a provision which prohibits political party support for the constitutionally limited power federal government.


64 posted on 08/05/2014 5:26:19 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10
Thank you for referencing that article Eagle Forgotten. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

I posted it to spark discussion. Thanks for offering the reassurance, but anyone who's upset by honest disagreement shouldn't be on FR.

The problem is that most of us have grown up under a corrupt federal government.

The flip side is that millions of Americans don't vote. They may not be as wedded to the status quo as you think. Some have given up in disgust. Mobilize them, plus all the angry conservatives, and something could happen -- though, I admit, probably not for 2016.

I think that the next amendment to the Constitution needs to have a provision which prohibits political party support for the constitutionally limited power federal government.

Here I have to part company. I just don't see how that could be done. If a bunch of people agree with each other, you can't stop them from working together.
90 posted on 08/05/2014 6:30:20 PM PDT by Eagle Forgotten
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