Well for what its worth I'm not particularly fond of the the 16th, 17th, 22nd, 23rd and 26th Amendments. I think we could do better without any of those.
Can I ask you a question about your screen name?
Reason is Faith?
Is that a truism? Because, as you know, most truisms are false.
Spiritual Faith is not reason and reason is not faith. Although they are compatible and not contradictory, I don't see how their parallel lines ever intersect.
Faith is in itself a miracle, and by nature miracles are not subject to temporal reason. Faith in Christ, is not something we reason out for ourselves, it is a Gift from God. A fallen man can reason, but without the prompting of God (a supernatural event) no man can come to faith.
Now men may reason a faith in their brakes when driving their cars, knowing that the odds of a brake failure are so insignificant that they do not warrant an irrational fear of driving 75 miles an hour, but that is not a spiritual faith. That is a reasonable conclusion based on statistics and experience. It certainly isn't the kind of substance of things hoped for or evidence of things unseen that we equate with our Spiritual Faith.
Anyhows, what exactly do you mean when you say "reason is faith"? Thanks.
To say that reason is faith is to reconcile the two in the most complete way.
Now back to the Constitution, if you please. I’m talking fundamentals, not particular amendments. The most important thing about the Constitution is it establishes the direction of power flow: God—>people—>government.
This directionality is what the ruling class oppose. To succumb to the temptations of Washington always, without exception, positions a politician against the vector of liberty.
The vector of liberty is our battleground.
We’re fighting for liberty. Bachmann understands this and proceeds accordingly. Ryan understands it also, but sometimes it seems like he’s got one foot slipping toward the quicksand of political corruption, otherwise known as political correctness.
Either that, or he’s part of the odd circumstance in contemporary politics which seems to deny male politicians their rightful portion of testosterone while somehow slipping it daily into their female counterparts’ morning coffee.