Posted on 09/18/2010 9:02:53 PM PDT by OneWingedShark
>So you would compare the Constitution as a cage for rats?
The Constitution *is* supposed to be a cage; though it is not the people who are to be bound therein: it is the government. Thomas Jefferson said this of the Constitution: “In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
If the Constitution says what the government says, then how is it not a cage? (That is, if you let your opponent define the rules of your debate/battle/game then you are virtually sure to lose; the only way you might win is if your opponent becomes arrogant and puts up a rule that allows you to win — even then, you should expect him to chance the rules in midstream.)
>Using that analogy, I would be more concerned about the DemonRATs who go outside the Constitution.
And not the Republicans as well? How inconsistent of you.
The “outside” of the cage, in the analogy, is Liberty & Freedom: I am saying that [right now] the average American person does not actually want Liberty/Freedom because it is utterly alien to his realm of experience. Consider this: public schools have trained the children of this nation, for the past several generations two things:
— That the ‘authority’ can dictate to you how and when to do any particular thing.
— that ‘authority’ comes from the *position* [and that no-one who does not qualified can rise to such a position; Obama is a GREAT counter-example].
I’ve often been misunderstood before, but not often to this extent, Mr. Shark. Are you sure we’re speaking the same language? LOL!
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