Rasmussen: Many Say Government Now Operating Outside the Constitution [YA THINK???]

Rasmussen Reports ^ | November 23, 2010

[maine-iac7]

No wonder der ‘bamafuhrer wants to build new rail lines!

Actually, it might be interesting to match up the locations of the many empty jails - many of them never yet used - around the country and the strange, useless RR links they're proposing.

I don't think many people, especially those who don't know the history of Nazi Germany or Stalin's Russia - just how dangerous the people behind this are - they are concentrating on the surface of it without realizing that it is probably but a test run to see just how easily the people can be subjugated...

[maine-iac7]

So, shut up, keep quiet and just turn on the showers after depositing your clothing in this pile.

And do NOT abuse the agents.

[sheik yerbouty]

Exactly so..

[RipSawyer]

“Only 44% think the govt has exceeded its constitutional boundaries.... but I wonder how many of those 44% truly understand what the boundaries are?”
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All of the 44% understand the boundaries but none of the rest do. Anyone who understands the constitution has to know that the government is NOT operating within the constitution.
The American constitution was written to be read and understood by anyone with enough education to be a functioning member of society at that time. It is NOT complicated and hard to decipher as so many wish to pretend.
Modern politicians and many judges seem able to find any meaning they desire in the document but cannot perceive what was plainly intended.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

All of the 44% understand the boundaries but none of the rest do.

I think that's too optimistic. For example, I suspect that not one American in ten understands and embraces the constitutional doctrine of enumerated powers.

My (implied) point was that many of these 44% have some favorite part of the Constitution (e.g. free speech, which was highlighted in the poll) that they think has been transgressed by Congress.

For example, I'll bet we can find a lot of conservatives who rightly think that McCain-Feingold is unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds, but they don't understand that this law is an unconstitutional atrocity in many other ways as well.

[RipSawyer]

I can’t argue with any of that, at least the 44% do realize that the government is overstepping the boundaries, it is astonishing to think that more than half the people either don’t think so or are not certain. How can anyone who knows anything NOT KNOW that the government is living outside the constitution?

Just this morning after answering your post I had a conversation with a seventy year old man who seems to think there is a lot of positive to the idea that a person charged with a crime should be considered guilty and have to prove his own innocence. I was astounded to say the least, a large percentage of America seems to be looking forward to dictatorship as if it meant deliverance.