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Think The Constitution Will Save Us? Think Again
Hotair.com ^ | 8-10-18

Posted on 08/10/2018 11:31:28 AM PDT by DeweyCA

Consider a few facts: Donald Trump is in the White House, despite winning almost three million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. The Senate, the country’s most powerful legislative chamber, grants the same representation to Wyoming’s 579,315 residents as it does to 39,536,653 Californians. Key voting rights are denied to citizens in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and other United States territories. The American government is structured by an 18th-century text that is almost impossible to change.

These ills didn’t come about by accident; the subversion of democracy was the explicit intent of the Constitution’s framers. For James Madison, writing in Federalist No. 10, “Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention” incompatible with the rights of property owners. The byzantine Constitution he helped create serves as the foundation for a system of government that rules over people, rather than an evolving tool for popular self-government.

Writers on the left such as Jacobin’s Seth Ackerman and the journalist Daniel Lazare have long argued that constitutional reform needs to be on the agenda. Even some liberals like Vox’s Matthew Yglesias rightly worry that the current system of governance is headed toward collapse.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloat; commieagenda; communism; constitution; electoralcollege; jacobin; jacobins; lawlessleftists; livingconstitution; negativerights; thirstylibertytree
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This is an excerpt from a New York Times article by Meagan Day and Bhaskar Sunkara. Ms. Day is a staff writer at Jacobin, where Mr. Sunkara is editor. Jacobin is a Leftist publication. These are the people who call for a "living Constitution" like Al Gore, Hillary, Obama and so many other Dems. They are also the ones who complain that the Constitution is a document of "negative rights" enumerating what the government can't do (to restrict people's freedom), rather than being one of "positive rights" of what the government MUST do for people. It was their favorite Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who said that she would NOT recommend that a new nation follow the US Constitution. Instead, she likes the South Africa Constitution [which is now being used by the communist ANC party and taking white farmers' land without compensation, like in Zimbabwe]. These people are also the ones who complain about the Electoral College.

Having rejected God, politics is the Leftists' religion. They want power. It inflates their precious ego.It is the original sin of Adam and Eve, and of Satan. They worship themselves. They are like Golum in Lord of the Rings.

nytimes.com/2018/08/09/opinion/constitution-founders-democracy-trump.html

1 posted on 08/10/2018 11:31:28 AM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: DeweyCA

Bump


2 posted on 08/10/2018 11:34:13 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: DeweyCA

These people want to replace the constitution with a form of communist manifesto. Surest way to civil war i can think of.


3 posted on 08/10/2018 11:36:26 AM PDT by exnavy (America: love it or leave it.)
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To: DeweyCA

If the Constitution is the defining document of our country, doesn’t it follow that changing that document changes the definition of the country?

It is not the right of liberals to change this country into what they would like it to be. It is their right to TRY, but only within the framework of laws already in place.


4 posted on 08/10/2018 11:37:19 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: DeweyCA

_bama also called the Constitution a list of negative rights.


5 posted on 08/10/2018 11:37:43 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: DeweyCA

The last paragraph in the New York Times article sums up their attitude quite well. “But it’s a problem worth confronting. As long as we think of our Constitution as a sacred document, instead of an outdated relic, we’ll have to deal with its anti-democratic consequences.”

They do NOT want to live by the Constitution, just like they don’t want to live by the Bible. They hate BOTH of them because those documents constrain their inflated ego.


6 posted on 08/10/2018 11:38:00 AM PDT by DeweyCA
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“the subversion of democracy was the explicit intent of the Constitution’s framers.”

Exactly, and thankfully.


7 posted on 08/10/2018 11:38:58 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DeweyCA

The Constitution won’t ever be safe as long as We the People tolerate tyrants and traitors.

Both groups need to be shot down like rabid dogs.


8 posted on 08/10/2018 11:39:44 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: DeweyCA

“A Republic, if you can keep it...” - Ben Franklin


9 posted on 08/10/2018 11:41:17 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Big City turn me loose and set me free...)
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To: DeweyCA
The Senate, the country’s most powerful legislative chamber, grants the same representation to Wyoming’s 579,315 residents as it does to 39,536,653 Californians.

It's designed that way, ding dong. California has 53 Representatives and the Wyoming has one.

10 posted on 08/10/2018 11:41:46 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: DeweyCA

The best thing about our Constitution is that it protects the rights of idiots like these to publish such drivel.


11 posted on 08/10/2018 11:42:30 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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We left the Constitution behind on Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009

Barack Hussein Obama is NOT a natural born citizen

What is going on now is the struggle (or shrtuggle if you’re Michelle O) to restore the Constitution and the rule of law.


12 posted on 08/10/2018 11:42:34 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: DeweyCA
Donald Trump is in the White House, despite winning almost three million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton.

When all the (unsuccessful) vote fraud is accounted for, Trump's win was by at least a couple of million.

13 posted on 08/10/2018 11:43:34 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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The Senate, the country’s most powerful legislative chamber, grants the same representation to Wyoming’s 579,315 residents as it does to 39,536,653 Californians.

For a very good reason. It was done to keep a few large states from ramming their policies down the throats of all the other states.

It is also incorrect that the Senate is the most powerful body. And if the progessives had not altered the Constitution (17th amendment) the Senate would be a whole lot less what it is like now. The goal of the 17th amendment was to steal power from the states and federalize it. The same reason they want to abolish the electoral college. The wet dreams of progressives.

14 posted on 08/10/2018 11:49:06 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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The Constitution will NOT save us but will save our enemies. It will definitely save Islam and illegals.


15 posted on 08/10/2018 11:51:02 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Exactly what I was thinking. Apparently, civics isn’t his strong suit.


16 posted on 08/10/2018 11:51:50 AM PDT by ferret_airlift
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To: ChildOfThe60s

The wet dreams of progressives.

Divine intervention that Constitution !
Talk about evidence that there is a God? Look to our Constitution!

So smart our Founders!

God DRIVEN...........xo

God wants for us to protect it.

Freegards


17 posted on 08/10/2018 11:51:52 AM PDT by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: DesertRhino

Exactly. They say that like it was a bad thing.


18 posted on 08/10/2018 11:52:42 AM PDT by pas
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To: DeweyCA

Here are TWO Amendments they are trying to TAKE OUT:
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To: DeweyCA
the subversion of democracy was the explicit intent of the Constitution’s framers.

Well… Meagan got one thing right.

Thank God for the framers.

20 posted on 08/10/2018 11:54:06 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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