Posted on 06/24/2011 3:38:29 AM PDT by lowbridge
Regular readers of Time magazine this week found in their mailbox yet another pile of leftist tripe in the vein of "the Constitution is a living document." This week's cover article by managing editor Richard Stengel is a freak show of anti-Constitutional babble including an assertion that the Constitution was not intended to limit government: "If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesnt say so...The truth is, the Constitution massively strengthened the central government of the U.S. for the simple reason that it established one where none had existed before."
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Mr. Ames was correct in highlighting the passage ...If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesnt say so...The truth is, the Constitution massively strengthened the central government of the U.S. for the simple reason that it established one where none had existed before...
There is a reason "Time" readership has plummeted and the thickness of the magazine has been reduced to the point it looks like a coupon booklet. The lack of critical thinking and errors in logic and reasoning in this one sentence highlight those reasons.
If you asked liberals about The Federalist Papers, they would say "Yeah, I have read them..." with the same amount of conviction they would denounce Senator Joseph McCarthy, and with the same understanding of the subject.
Good God. Understanding the need for and engaging in the act of creating a Federal Government is not the equivalent of granting that federal government unlimited power and unlimited government growth, which is the meat of what this bonehead says.
Make no mistake: THIS IS WHAT ALL LIBERALS THINK.
Our founders grappled for years on the composition of the Constitution. This idiot thinks the founders would go through all that, and then would turn around and say "It's just a guideline...follow it if it is convenient".
Hearing liberals discuss the intentions of the Founders and The Constitution is like listening to them talk about "What Jesus Would Do" and The Bible.
The Bill of Rights limit the Constitution.
I want this to be a joke. If there was any doubt, now it’s gone: the fascists-communists run US media, intent on destroying us. Time prints fiction.
Don’t bother. This idiot thinks Jefferson was a dry cleaner in queens.
Anyone?
(Before flaming me, click on the link.)
Now that the pinheaded losers at time have spoken will their next cover feature nobama wiping his arse with the Constitution? Nothing that leftist losers do surprises me.
His June 23rd broadcast available here presented a great response to this article.
Exceptionally interesting was his explanation about the Necessary and Proper Clause, which is located at Article I, Section 8, Clause 18. The MSM employees feeeeeeeeel that it is proof that the Founders intended to grant huge powers to the federal government over the people -- contrary to the opposite that those scary Tea Party troublemakers think.
Mr Levin kinda summed up the facts around that clause by asking that if the ultra liberals are correct then why did the Founders even bother to write the Constitution?
Another glaring fault in the MSM employees' argument is when they downplayed the importance of a constitution by pointing out that Nazi Germany among others had a constitution.
Exactly! responded Mr. Levin.
That's why it is so important to protect our Constitution from people like them!
Oh Mr. Hamilton. If only you and your fellow Federalists could see how far the sensibilities of this nation could fall! I wish I could travel back in time and bring you a copy of this magazine, and let you know that there are people of my time that are taking the magazine's assertions seriously without guffaws of laughter!
I am thrilled that Time and the rest of the MSM has taken on the mantle of the Supreme Court....this will save American taxpayers THOUSANDS of dollars per year, no longer having to pay the salaries of Supreme Court Justices...(is ‘sarc’ really necessary?)
Hahahahahahaha
I think the Tenth Amendment which states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people” DOES limit the powers of the Federal Government to those enumerated in The Constitution.
LLS
Time should be changed to Decay
Psst, I just want to whisper to you that Time may not consider this germane, it is, after all, an AMENDMENT and not part of the original document. Time Magazine, after all, wants to be exact.
Anybody want to guess at what RPM Henry B Luce is now spinning? It has got to be getting close to the zillions!
What repulsive publications these “weeklies” have become.
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