Posted on 08/29/2018 3:11:58 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
This is a stupid article written by a stupid person on a stupid website.
“Anwar al-Awlaki’s kids deserve the same right to run as Ted Cruz.”
Your statement is about as deranged as this article.
A therapist might be able to deprogram you from Ted Derangement Syndrome.
Cruz is an originalist, BTW. I’m sure that will set you off. But take your pills and avoid bringing it up next time.
I guess this genius, Alan Brownstein, never heard of the amendment process. He might be a miseducated dope.
They are as eligible as Ted Cruz.
If he is an originalist then he knows he is ineligible.
Born in a foreign country to one citizen parent is not a natural born citizen.
They may be a citizen by action of some law, but natural born citizen need no laws as they are naturally citizens because they are no alternatives, they cannot be anything else.
People born with multiple nationalities are not natural born citizens.
As an originalist, I will freely admit to being at war with “The Hill”.
Yes, you want change? Then pass an Amendment to the Constitution. You want experimentalism? Then you should acknowledge that states can do that. Some states may want to legalize some things, others may not. That is experimentalism.
An issue often overlooked is that there are less practicing, sincere, Judeo-Chirstians. Here is what some of our founding father had to say:
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams
" Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society." George Washington
"[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." Benjamin Franklin
"The moral principles and precepts contained in the scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. . . All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." Noah Webster
"Whereas true religion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness . . . it is hereby earnestly recommended to the several States to take the most effectual measures for the encouragement thereof." Continental Congress 1778
"Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is divine. . . . Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other." James Wilson (signer of the Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
We are less religious as a country resulting in the call for the "changing" of the Constitution.
The message here is a total lie.
No, it conflicts with YOUR reality, and your ideals. Too freakin bad!
These people are insufferable!
I guess this nut-job has never heard of the amendments.
History most definitely didn’t stop 230 years ago.
Well, this is what we are up against.
There is no satisfying them.
We are the Deplorables, the Undesirables, The Originalists.
...and we are in the way.
Thank God.
Without intending to do so, Browstein argues for an Article V COS.
Hey Mr. Brownstein. Get out of my country before I put you in a ditch.
Yes, that’s about it.
By the end of Trump’s two terms, these folks need to be back under their rocks.
You hit the nail on the head.
If you are confused how to view the Constitution just ask yourself two questions.
Has the reason the founders limited legislative powers improved since the original Constitution?
Has the reason for adding further declaratory and restrictive clauses to prevent government abuse improved since the Bill of Rights?
In a nutshell, has man improved enough that you would trust him with additional powers of legislation beyond what the Constitution provides?
He’s saying that judges should have the power to both create law, and amend the Constitution, based on their own judgement. That Judges are Gods, who may not be constrained.
What terrifies him is the idea that the Courts have essentially been given unlimited power, and Trump is now filling the benches with HIS people.
The Constitution is just an impotent piece of paper, UNLESS it is backed by a citizenry which believes in it, and is willing to protect it by force of arms.
The cult of cowardice has indoctrinated us to the bent knee for too long.
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