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Let’s Study The U.S. Constitution – Part 3
The Coach's Team ^ | 6/1/17 | Susan Frickey

Posted on 06/01/2017 8:18:12 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax

If you approach the study of our Constitution with the mental image of building a house, it’s easier to comprehend and retain what you are learning. The original four short pages that make up the seven Articles of the Constitution provide the concrete foundation and the framework. The authors were literally called the “framers” of the Constitution. The Articles are short, to the point, and critically important in understanding the foundation of our republic.

Patrick Henry said, “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people. It is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”

To review Article I, the Framers divided Congress into two chambers: the House of Representatives, each member being elected by their respective districts and serving two-year terms, and the Senate, whose members serve staggered terms of six years each. The House is based on popular representation and the Senate is based on equal representation of all the states.

Article II sets up the Presidency, which was a much more difficult and delicate task. Americans had just fought a revolution to escape the rule by a monarchy, so they were wary of living under another king. Most delegates to the Convention realized a strong executive was necessary, but nevertheless worried about the dangers of executive tyranny.

Every member of Congress as well as every federal judge takes an oath to “support the Constitution” but it is the President’s exclusive oath to “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

The Framers rejected direct popular election of the President because they believed that the general populace would be ill-informed about national...

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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: congress; constitutionstudy; founders; freedom; liberty

1 posted on 06/01/2017 8:18:12 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: Oldpuppymax
The original four short pages that make up the seven Articles of the Constitution

It was a one pager, with an appendix.

2 posted on 06/01/2017 8:31:10 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Oldpuppymax

The Kenyanesian Usurpation was brought to you by BOTH parties.

The Constitution says natural born citizen.
That means one who is naturally an American because they couldn’t be anything else, born here of citizen parents.
Everyone in DC wanted that changed without the hassle of amending the Constitution.
The Senate passed a resolution declaring McCain a natural born citizen because he had TWO citizen parents, even though he was born in Panama.
Then Obama runs and wins based on just being born here, even though he told us on his website he was born a British subject as the result of having a foreign national father.
So the standard went from born here of citizen parents to just TWO citizen parents to just being born here in one election cycle without amending the Constitution.
According to this standard the recently deceased King of Thailand was eligible, he was born in Cambridge MA, as well as every anchor baby with no loyalty to the USA.
This was done intentionally because Rubio (no citizen parents), Cruz (foreign birth, one citizen parent), Jindal (no citizen parents), George P Bush (one citizen parent) and Haley (no citizen parents) were all ineligible and the future of the GOP.

The truth of the Kenyanesian Usurpation will never see the light of day because they ALL cooperated in the violation of the Constitution.


3 posted on 06/01/2017 8:38:24 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

It should matter - but it does not. It should also matter that John Adams said of our Constitution: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

As WTP were sleeping, the devil began his work from inside the home in order that he might destroy us. This nation, as you well know from searching, is no longer a majority of moral or religious individuals. In our government, few can be found.

God has been banned from our public square, our education system, even our ‘hallowed’ halls. The devil is winning this battle. Ask the next generation their beliefs and count the number of persons Mr. Adams described.


4 posted on 06/01/2017 9:10:04 AM PDT by V K Lee (DJT: "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. ")
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To: rjsimmon

bttt


5 posted on 06/01/2017 10:10:12 AM PDT by CGVet58 (God has Granted us Liberty, and we owe Him our Courage in return)
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