Here it is:
Posted on 05/07/2020 5:53:00 AM PDT by knighthawk
I have been taking some heat from friends and colleagues for my steadfast defense of personal liberties and my arguments that the Constitution -- when interpreted in accordance with the plain meaning of its words, and informed by history -- does not permit the government to infringe upon personal freedoms, no matter the emergency or pandemic.
For those who agree with me, worry not. We will persevere. For those who trust the government, worry a lot. You are not in good hands.
The purpose of the Constitution is to establish the government and to limit it. Some of the limitations are written in the Constitution itself. Most of the limitations that pertain to personal freedoms are found in the Bill of Rights -- the first 10 amendments.
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I am begining to wonder?
Nope. It’s been ignored. There is no rule of law left. I thought Trump would restore it as one of his most important jobs, but that hasn’t happened.
We would if we had a Justice Department.
The courts. It’s about the courts.
Here it is:
We do still have a Constitution. But sadly many Americans have never actually read it. Too many think that it’s written in some sort of mumbo jumbo that they have to have politicians and lawyers interpret it for them. It’s in plain English and very easy to understand! I’ve got several copies that I got from the Heritage Foundation and regularly give them to people asking them to show where in it it gives government any authority to do stuff it’s doing. Most people just fart around and walk away without even looking at it. I think they’re too damn lazy to think for themselves.
No, absolutely not. When the people don’t demand adherence to the constitution, then the constitution is irrelevant.
Not if anything goes when dealing with relatively minor diseases like this — a disease that is fatal only for a small number of people with pre-existing conditions.
I don’t think it’s so much a Constitution, but politicians that believe in obeying the precepts of the Constitution.
There it goes.....
We are being played like a fiddle by the ChiComs.
Not since Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009
The constitution hasn’t mattered for over a 100 years now
Gun Control/bans
Abortion
Central Planning/Zoning
Asset Seizures
Federal Reserve
Environmental Regulation
Income Taxes
All of this has been taking place way before Cornyvirus
It’s a living breathing document doncha know?
That’s like the frog asking, “Is it just me, or is this pan of water getting warm?”
Naw, the USS Constitution had a big hole put in the bottom of her under FDR (these are only temporary measures — guaranteed!) and she’s been slowly sinking and listing to the left lo these nearly 90 years.
We are now being governed by the 14th Amendment, the Commerce Clause and the liberal courts.
There’s no defined metric for when ‘emergency powers’ can be enacted. There’s no defined threshold of when that metric triggers it.
So it’s just an end-around the Constitution. What if the flu is bad next year? Is that bad enough? What if deaths on the road spike, will we have an emergency ‘do not drive’ declaration? What are the bookends? Nobody knows and that is my problem.
I don’t recognize dictated ‘orders’ as ‘law’. They’re not - we the people didn’t have representatives pass them. Governors have decided for themselves it’s ok to destroy small businesses. Everything they’ve risked and work for - gone because a governor says so.
Why would *anyone* start a new business? Will there be a resurgence of the virus? Probably to some degree. Will that put us back to square zero and ‘lock-down’? If that is still possible then forget new businesses for a long time.
Then there’s ‘the lists’ of what is allowed and what isn’t. Our Michigan governor says she is following the ‘science’. Bullsh*t. There’s NO science that says golfing is a risky activity. What about fishing on your boat (with a motor)? Again, NO peer reviewed papers. We can’t buy gardening products or paint either. So just keep us under house arrest with nothing to do. Surely gardening and painting our home will keep us busy and ‘distant’ from others. This is NOT science, it is just politically driven, power drunk, madness - all decided by ONE person.
IMHO the ONLY power a governor should have during a bad virus is to REQUEST that certain behavior be followed. No ‘orders’. No ‘lists’. One person having this much power, with no regard for the essential need of everyone to earn a living, is madness.
No Constitution, no Rule of Law, no faith in government. I would like to cancel my subscription to “the consent of the governed.”
No Constitution, no Rule of Law, no faith in government. I would like to cancel my subscription to “the consent of the governed.”
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