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Our Outdated Constitution
Defining Ideas - Hoover Institution ^
Posted on 06/05/2016 5:36:54 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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Hoover Inst. now officially off the reservation, rejects Trump but wants a stronger executive at the specific expense of the legislative.
To: ameribbean expat
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posted on
06/05/2016 5:39:35 AM PDT
by
biggredd1
To: ameribbean expat
“...The Constitutionwhich, for all its admirable qualities, imposes a structure of government that has long been outdated, and is ill-suited to modern times...”
It is as valid today as the day it was written...The problem is that politicians and judges do not follow what it says because it doesn’t fit their agendas...
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posted on
06/05/2016 5:42:38 AM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: ameribbean expat
the way I see it, the primary function of government Should Be to Limit itself.
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posted on
06/05/2016 5:43:55 AM PDT
by
Samurai_Jack
(War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.)
To: ameribbean expat
How about our employees in D.C. and in our states and communities follow what the constitution says instead of undermining it. That would help a little bit.
These progg/lib/socialist/communists are looking for paradise. There ain’t no paradise. Just hard work and to follow the law.
To: ameribbean expat
The last thing the federal government was designed for is effectiveness
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posted on
06/05/2016 5:46:22 AM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: ameribbean expat
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Congress the prime source of dysfunction, it should be moved to the periphery of the policymaking process where its pathologies can do less damageand presidents should be moved to the center where they can do the most good. Why not just make a President for life? Maybe a King.
I stopped reading after that point because there was no reason to continue.
First order of business....eliminate the Congressional pension system. They collect their pay and that's it. No health insurance, no perks. Corruption is a capital crime and your family ends up penniless.
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posted on
06/05/2016 5:48:48 AM PDT
by
Ouderkirk
(To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
To: Ouderkirk
Add to this term limits...........
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posted on
06/05/2016 5:51:11 AM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: ameribbean expat
Has this idiot savant ever heard of Administrative Law? Multiple agencies were created by Congress and operated under the Chief Executive; hence his idiotic and oppressive hypothesis/conclusion is already in existence. Look where we are at right now, lol.
The only solution is a limited Federal government restrained by specific enumerated powers that allow States to govern as they see fit. Also a population that understands the concepts of self-government and actual liberty/Natural Law.
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posted on
06/05/2016 5:53:30 AM PDT
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
To: JBW1949
There is also a big problem within the general population. While some of those in power are to blame, they are not the sole problem. A free society cannot survive when the population will not limit themselves, and have no belief in a higher authority beyond man himself.
To: ameribbean expat
Why is the nation so poorly governed? Criminals, liars, deceivers, plunderers, thugs, conmen, scumbags, collectivists, socialists, totalitarians are in and around government.
Identify them. DEPOPULATE them from the body politic. DEFUND their collectives, foreign and domestic.
It's easy to
live - free - republic
C'mon November
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posted on
06/05/2016 5:57:43 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: ameribbean expat
The republic died at Appomattox.
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posted on
06/05/2016 6:00:12 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: ameribbean expat
Repeal the 16th and 17th amendments.
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posted on
06/05/2016 6:00:40 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: ameribbean expat
The problem is not the Constitution
It’s the dysfunctional people servung in elected office
The Founders knew that a Republic that they created could only be sustained by a virtuous people
And that is where we have and are failing
A virtuous people would not elect the collection of miscreants idiots and oligarchs that now consider elected office to,be their “ career”
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posted on
06/05/2016 6:01:15 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
To: ameribbean expat
Our Constitution IS (was & is) One Of The Greatest Documents Ever Written By The Human Hands!!
'Nuff Said!
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posted on
06/05/2016 6:01:18 AM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: PGalt
DISMANTLE their agencies.
https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/a
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
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posted on
06/05/2016 6:01:25 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: Fiddlstix
Via amendments the US Constitution has been bastardized and ruined. A republic if you can keep it - not.
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posted on
06/05/2016 6:04:19 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
Good point.The subjugation of the Confederate States was in fact the death of states rights.
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posted on
06/05/2016 6:04:33 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
To: JBW1949
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posted on
06/05/2016 6:05:57 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Farmer Dean
Good point.The subjugation of the Confederate States was in fact the death of states rights.The 17th amendment codified the deal.
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posted on
06/05/2016 6:07:01 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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