Posted on 05/17/2022 7:22:03 AM PDT by mononymous
A question I've been pondering recently; for how long has the US Constitution been dead to Democrats?
Can anyone help me understand when, over the last 100 years or so, have they done anything to advance the cause of individual freedom and personal responsibility?
More than likely...on January 22, 1973.
Power attracts the people who never cared for their fellow man but only for themselves. The kind who fears neither God nor man.
When Mao came out with his “Little Red Book?”
Imho November 22, 1963
Lyndon Johnson put the first bullet into it, Bill Clinton began to just ignore it and Obama actually began the effort to destroy it with his “beer summit.” Brandon is too demented to know what he is doing but his Obama puppet masters know full well what they are doing and continue to do it at an accelerated pace with both eyes on the November election outcomes.
1934, with the NFA. Reinforced in 1938 with Miller. Expanded again in 1942 with Wickard and killed completely in 1964 with the CRA.
They decided early on to start to destroy the Presidency when Nixon was forced out and went full bore when Trump won. They love the saying, it became necessary to destroy it to save it.
United States v. Butler, 297 U.S. 1 (1936)(Congress can tax for the purpose of the general welfare and not the enumerated purposes in the tax and spend clause) and Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942)(Congress may prohibit economic activity directed an only intra state activity for personal consumption under the commerce clause because such activities may have an impact on interstate commerce).
1861
Great minds think alike
Barack Obama’s Poor Understanding of the Constitution
Nov 3, 2008 — Obama in his interview disparages the Constitution as merely “a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you.
Passage of the 16th amendment (access to taxpayer money) and 17th amendments (states no longer represented).
The day after it was ratified.
You make a good case but Wilson was one of the worst of the Constitution shredders.
When they found nobody cared about their misdeeds, whenever that was. But I’m sure it started small and exploded to what we see today, or don’t see...depends on affiliation and how much you benefit.
Democrats have never respected it. It’s by design.
The simple explanation of the two parties. A conservative is supposed to keep things the way they are. A progressive is supposed to pass new laws and bring about change.
If you like the way things are, you vote conservative. If you want things changed you vote progressive.
A conservatives job is to vote “no” to everything. The moment A “yes” vote is given to change, its no longer conservation.
Republicans wanted to support a republic. A Democrat wanted to change to a popular, democratic vote. Bringing about a democracy. The first of such votes that got the parties their name was to end the electoral college.
The electoral college is the only thing k keeping us A republic and not a democracy.
Simplest explanation.
We’ve now been called a republic but we operate like a democracy and as predicted People started to vote themselves perks.
At one time being a legislator was not something People wanted. It paid little and carried a big burden. Those legislators learned to find power and sold that power to anyone who wanted to buy it.
Things really went downhill.
Now we’re literally WROL. It’s a free for all based on an illusion that any portion of the constitution or our original laws are still in place.
When the constitution became a “living document” it started dying, as it then failed its original purpose. I have always been a strong defender of First Amendment freedoms, and in my life time, the First Amendment’s protections shrank as new “crimes” were invented that took perfectly normal acts of expression and criminalized them by claiming some criminal intent. “Harassment” tops the list. Now they are destroying the idea of a “Republican form of government” with blatantly rigged elections. Something must be done. Yet, nothing has been done.
Yes. I was actually thinking about this earlier this morning.
The Second Amendment is very clear: “shall not be infringed”. But in 1934 the Supreme Court decided that is could be infringed in a whole bunch of ways. The FDR Administration was pleased with that, and the Constitution became just a piece of paper that was loaded with suggestions about government. No one pays much attention to it anymore.
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