Posted on 01/02/2017 11:05:07 AM PST by Jacquerie
I would say a lot closer to written in stone by the finger of God than any other comparison. JMHO.
But He did trust us to have good sense and understand what a COS will do
Maybe a couple of hundred years ago I might agree. NOW, not a chance. It is up to the States, particularly Governors to step up with the backing of their Legislatures and reclaim their forgotten Sovereignty while the iron is hot.
If, and that is a big if, their is a COS, rescinding the Seventeenth would be sufficient as a start. Frankly, we should have stopped at the Bill of Rights as you suggest.
Look around you... this is what you get when you do nothing.
The situation we face isn’t because we were doing nothing, if anything “WE” were doing to damn much that wasn’t in accordance with the Constitution, and a COS in this day and age will do more damage. The less we do the better, from regulations, new law and messing with what was pretty close to perfection back in 1789, and would still be today if followed.
“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present”
Source: Jefferson
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/letter-to-samuel-kercheval/
If only Thomas was available for comment. For in his day I would have been all in, but his day is long gone and what those men gave us is worth more than to allow tinkering as we observed during the practice Article V this past year. The proposed amendments they came up with did nothing more than weaken what was already in the Constitution, particularly regarding State Sovereignty. This is not just a Congressional issue, but extends to the States themselves who are most all guilty of giving away what should have been held inviolate, their power and authority over the Government that States and We the People loaned a smidgeon of our power. It was only a loan, and at the first sign of usurpation, should have been withdrawn, or at a minimum severely reprimanded for the least infraction of article 1 section 8.
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