THE PURPOSE OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

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Steve Hogan
Steve Hogan

Constitutions are only as good as the people’s willingness to keep the government from overreaching. Fail. Epic fail.

IndenturedServant

Saw a great quote yesterday and this is the perfect place to share it. I’ll leave out the attribution but you can look it up in case the words alone are not powerful enough or too powerful for you.

“The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer.”

James Strait

Steve Hogan…you’re correct. We are what we tolerate!

We don’t tolerate much in World War III…

I wrote the book.

spinolator
spinolator

Tell that to Obama voters…oh wait…never mind

Tucci78

Let me pull a quote from one of L. Neil Smith’s online articles, “The Deal” (1 December 2013) that bears pretty well on this discussion of the charter enabling the federal government to exist.

The Bill of Rights was, unfortunately, misnamed. It was not a list of things Americans were allowed too do, under the Constitution. It was and remains a list of things government is absolutely forbidden to do — like set up a state religion, or steal your house — under any circumstances.

The Bill of Rights was the make-or-break condition that allowed the Constitution to be ratified. No Bill of Rights, no Constitution. And since all political authority in America “trickles down” from the Constitution, no Constitution no government. And, since the Bill of Rights was passed as a unit, a single breach, in any one of the ten articles, breaches them all and with them, the entire Constitution. Every last bit of the authority that derives from it becomes null and void.

Let’s review:

• No Second Amendment, no Bill of Rights.

• No Bill of Rights, no Constitution.

• No Constitution, no government.

Emphasis on that last bullet point, okay? Either the governing class in Mordor-on-the-Potomac conform to the explicitly articulated terms of the U.S. Constitution (as amended), or they’re criminals pretending to be a government, and disposing of them is simply a public health priority.

Dutchman
Dutchman

With our government the Constitution means whatever they want it to mean.

Rise Up
Rise Up

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Rise Up
Rise Up

fair and balanced:

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Rise Up
Rise Up

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,
people will eventually come to believe it.”

– Joseph Goebbels

“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things
over and over and over again for the truth to sink in,
to kind of catapult the propaganda.”

– George W. Bush, Rochester, N.Y., May 24, 2005

Thinker

On a similar note:

7 Pages That Gave President Obama Cover to Kill Americans

Barron, who wrote his controversial memo while at the Office of Legal Counsel, was confirmed anyway, before the public was permitted to see the legal reasoning he used to weaken the Fifth Amendment as well as an executive order banning assassinations and a statute prohibiting the murder of American citizens abroad. Now that analysis is available for review.

overthecliff

The Constitution died. I am not sure when but it is gone.

DaveL
DaveL

I think the Constitution started to die shortly after the last of the 48 contiguous states was accepted in the Union. And with a captive audience, we would be sold a federal income tax, a federal reserve, and popular election of senators.. The check book was now open and the states were bought.

bb

The constitution cannot die .It is a legal document.

Mr Chen
Mr Chen

And she said “We are all just prisoners here, of our own device”
And in the master’s chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can’t kill the beast

the declaration of independence says the people can get rid of the government but the government says that’s against the law.

SSS

“With our government, the Constitution means whatever they want it to mean.”
—-Dutchman

Pretty much true from the beginning. The Federalist Papers certainly contain a lot of information on what the primary framers (Madison, et al) MEANT by the various articles in the Constitution, but it hasn’t worked out that way.

What HAS worked out, not very well I might add, is specific case law brought before the Supreme Court. That’s where “the system” breaks down. Case law. I will cowardly skip past the issues of slavery and broken treaties with Indian tribes and provide just a few good and bad issues.

Bad. Plessy vs Ferguson (1896). The “will of the people” prevailed, and our version of apartheid was legally established.

Good. Brown vs Board of Education (1954). Invalidated Plessy.

Bad. Japanese-American Internment (1942). So fucking bad, I still can’t believe it happened. Everyone from FDR and the Supreme Court on down was responsible. No exceptions.

Good. Miranda (1966). “You have the right to remain silent …..” Reinforced the true meaning of the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination.

Bad. Roe vs Wade (1973). Bedrock of the “privacy movement.” Decision based on flawed interpretation of the law without ANY consideration of known, sound science. The Supreme Court lied, and 42 million have died.

Executive Orders. What a fricking swamp. Some are legal and harmless, some questionable, and some just plain illegal. The Supreme Court desperately needs a clear-cut case to sort this shit out, or it’s only going to get worse.

Just my take. Oh, the quote above posted by Indentured Servant is from James Baldwin.

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