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Posted on 12/14/2009 9:41:48 PM PST by rabscuttle385
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Congress of the United States
begun and held at the City of New-York, on
Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.
Thus at least in principle, the BOR may in fact restrict the entire Constitutional list of enumerated powers; the commerce or supremacy clauses for example.
We all know how that turned out. So much for principle.
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Wait a sec there! Where are those “positive rights” Obozo keep yammering about? Where’s the Health Care clause?
Actually, the beginnings of a Federal over-ride of State laws was proposed by Madison (ironically) as the "Fourteenth Article" in that very BOR:
Needless to say, said 14th Article was defeated as an excessive degree of Federal control over the state laws.
We all know how that turned out. So much for principle.
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As one of the founders stated, this particular form of government was for “a just and moral people”. In the absence of good faith, it will be weakened, not fortified.
The Bill of Rights is a brilliant piece of jurisprudence, but it is incongruous with a dumbed-down and decadent citizenry.
Happy Birthday Bill of Rights.
You were a good idea. But we’d rather have healthcare...:(
Happy 218th Birthday Bill of Rights, unfortunately the courts and the statists/marxists have cut you out of the Constitution.
I think they cut out the whole constitution, not just the Bill of Rights.
We should have banned scissors...At least in D.C.
ENFORCE the Bill of Rights.
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We miss you!
Hmmm...What planet is the author on?
It's the birthday...but, more correctly, a "morbid" birthday. "Mortality" is now the only remaining issue....
When our own representives, who claim to believe in the bill of rights either do not have the guts to stand up for them or do not have the mental power to understand them
lets them get trampled on, what can we do? get them out and get more of thier kind in?
It has been the same way ever since i have had an interest in politics, the liberals will get up a bill with a whole bunch of garbage even they themselves don,t want, so the republicans will fight to get the garbage out and if they get it out they are proud of themselves and the liberals get what they want.
Why don,t the conservetives turn the table on them? or are there any conservetives left? maybe a few republicans and very few democrats.
Yes and the way the first amendment reads is not seperation of church and state but just prevents congress from making any such law, it is supposed to protect the states in the making of thier own laws as in the 10th amendant.
In other words it is directed to congress, not to the states
it does not prevent the states from making any law, and that is good but the judges who think of them selves as Gods makes the laws them selves.
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