Posted on 11/23/2001 2:58:00 PM PST by Smogger
Well, if you want to change it, you have two options. Try to get it overturned or modified through Congress
or challenge it in Court on constitutional grounds. Good Luck to you.
Amazingly, you became a member on my birthday! Even more amazing is you are in/around Lexington, KY.....an area I love. I drove back to Ohio in '96 and coming back west, I dropped down into KY and came in on the Paris Turnpike.....fabulous horse country. Spent the evening and the next morning, while drizzly, foggy, made a loop of some of the biggies out on Winchester and then went to the KY Horse Park. I could have spent a week there...also took the driving tour of many of the farms....Mare's Haven, Lane's End, etc....and headed to Keeneland.....WOW....beautiful country.
My brother took basic at Ft. Ord in CA, and then went to Ft. Campbell for his paratrooper and Ranger training.
BUT.....isn't there always one....you shudda picked a more highly esteemed profession, in my view. :)
you shudda picked a more highly esteemed profession, in my view. :)
As for my profession, we have to have some of the good guys able to speak legalese...:) I take my oath to defend the Constitution very seriously.
And I put in ten years as an Army wife before going to law school so I am firmly in the protect and defend mode.
Actually, a sequence of cash transactions that add up to $10k can trigger a report. My Quicken bookeeping has me spending that much cash in less than a year, mostly on small items -- does that make me reportable?
You are, of course, correct in your assessment of needing some 'good guys' (and gals :) ... just angers me that it is attorneys that are writing all the legalese crapola--sort of like a permanent job guarantee! Oh well.....that's the way the mop flops.
That's supposed to be a secret...:)
The President and Congress are elected to represent 'We the People." Once elected into office the President and Congress take an oath to protect and defend the consitution. This Act is a perfect example of government working for government and not for 'We the People"
This law should not have be challenged. Had Congress and the President upheld their oath of office and not passed and signed into law something no one looked at and is uncontitutional it would not have to be.
Welcome to the real world.
Deal with reality. You still have two choices. Do something about it. Or continue whining.
Are you sure you aren't a liberal? There is alot of woe is me in your posts.
You should join me.
Correct question: Now that we know the national government has passed a law that violates the Constitution of the United States of America, do we obey or disobey the law?
I've never claimed to be any of that. However if you are indeed a counselor at law and believe that the objections of 'mulletheads' 'pips' and keyboard constitutionalists somehow turns a valid law into something unconstitutional then I suspect you need remedial courses.
They don't want to hear it and they don't want to understand it. These keyboard constitutionalist are like kids playing post office. However, there are a few of us rational, intelligent, thoughtful folks here. Chalk the rest up to playthings and background noise.
Well, I am just a backwoods country lawyer but I always advise people to obey the law.
And although you have an opinion about the constituionality of this particular law, as a legal matter,
the law is not unconstitutional until it is reviewed by the Courts and so adjudged.
And your basis for this unconstitutional feeling is? Have you by chance hear of Article 16 of that document?
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
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