[Congressman Billybob]

This writer has an apparently dim understanding of the Bill of Rights he claims to champion. BTW, the Bill of Rights contains 11 Amendments, not 10. That last amendment, called "The Madison Amendment," finally became part of the Constitution a decade ago.

For a more accurate discussion of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, tune in to my series on those subjects, on air with Jerry Agar out of Raleigh, North Carolina. We began yesterday with the First Amendment. Constitution Day will probably put up a thread for next Monday's show, as he did for yesterday's one. (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.)

Congressman Billybob

Click for latest column, "Three Anti-Endorsements." Not yet up on FR, or UPI.

Click for "to Restore Trust in America." As the politician formerly known as Al Gore said, "Buy my book."

[MrLeRoy]

That last amendment, called "The Madison Amendment," finally became part of the Constitution a decade ago.

Do you have a link for more info on this?

[Constitution Day]

Constitution Day will probably put up a thread for next Monday's show, as he did for yesterday's one. (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.)

I'll be glad to, sir. :)

[vannrox]

The Preamble to the Bill of Rights

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[This is a note to me from Dr. Linda Thompson of the American Justice Federation that I am passing along to everyone...email me with your comments ken]

[to ken]
You left off the MOST IMPORTANT PART of the Bill of Rights -- the PREAMBLE which tells SPECIFICALLY that the Bill of Rights was to make sure the government knew it was limited to the powers stated in the Constitution and if it didn't, the amendments were rights of the people the government couldn't screw with.
Our revisionist historians ALWAYS leave this off the Constitution!!!
Here's a copy!!!

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Effective December 15, 1791
Articles in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.

PREAMBLE
The conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution.

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The first ten amendments are "declaratory and restrictive clauses". This means they supersede all other parts of our Constitution and restrict the powers of our Constitution.

There are people in this country that do not want you to know that these two sentences ever existed. For many years these words were "omitted" from copies of our Constitution. Public and private colleges alike have based their whole interpretation of our Constitution on the fraudulent version of this text. Those corrupt individuals have claimed that the amendments can be changed by the will of the people. By this line of reasoning the amendments are open to interpretation. This is a clever deception. The Bill of Rights is separate from the other amendments. The Bill of Rights is a declaration of restrictions to the powers of our Constitution. The Bill of Rights restricts the Constitution. The Constitution restricts the powers of government. The deception is that the government can interpret the all of the amendments and the Constitution itself. Without the presence of the Preamble to the Bill of Rights this may be a valid argument.

End the deception.

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