What repulsive publications these “weeklies” have become.
Heard about this. Joe Klein’s magazine continues to swirl around the toilet bowl.
Oh those boys at the onion again.
By their own words they created a Government of Limited and Enumerated powers. What limited and enumerated their powers? The Constitution.
Liberals, they don't know much, but they sure are stupid!
They were just joking.
The first is the founders knew about insurance. Insuring risk and lose goes back many hundreds of years.
Probably more important, 'Health Insurance' as Obama and company are trying to implement, is not insurance at all. It's not a sharing of risk or lose. It's a sharing of medical costs. From each according to ability, to each according to need. That not insurance. It's Communism.
The left is playing word games and the right is letting them get away with it.
The Church was an impediment to the gay and leftist agenda so they destroyed the church. The consitution is an impediment to their wish for complete government control so now they must destroy the constitution.
Where was Stengel when the leftist hordes descended on Washington week after week during the height of the Iraq War protesting that Bush was violating the then beloved constitution? Then the document mattered. Now that they have their favorite leftist in power, who needs a stinkin’ constitution? Just let Obama do whatever he wants, and the leftist federal judges will fill in the rest.
Richard Stengel writes: If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesnt say so.
Yes, it does. The Tenth Amendment says: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Even before the adoption of the Bill of Rights, James Madison explained the original understanding of the document in Federalist 45: The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.
So, Richard, are you ignorant, stupid, or a liar? Or perhaps more than one. Whatever. Time editors should have known better. Probably they did, but hey, ever time Time stoops to a new low that doesnt seem possible, they do it again next week and stoop even lower than the winner of the Jamaican national limbo contest.
But no matter, with circulation sinking faster than the Titanic, in a couple of years no ones going to care what the digital remnants of Time are honking about anyway. After all, at that point the Time website will be just one of honking billions.
The Stengels (spell?) of the world are running your country.
Thanks for not caring. :)
Glenn Beck posits the question: Can Man Rule Himself?
If the left think that Man cannot rule himself, then how can they endorse Men ruling over other men?
This seems to be a paradox on the left.
If Man is not qualified to rule himself then isnt man also equally unqualified to rule over others, be those men Kings, Dictators, or even Saints?
All the apparatus of government consists of men, but if the left is correct in their assertion that man cannot rule himself then should their goal be to minimize the sins of men ruling over other men?
I didn’t realize Time magazine was still around.
There was a time when these people wouldn’t be heard from again.
I take it that the author didn’t actually read the document?
USA is clearly in trouble. We have raised a generation of people who don’t have even a small clue about what the USG charter (USConstitution) clearly says. They’ve been raised in public schooling which has turned every principle upside-down. USG has become god to a large percentage of USAians.
When can we begin to deputize patriot conservatives and jail these jerks for usurping the foundation of the United States of America( ONE NATION UNDER GOD!), NOT the 57 states of islum( Obama Fruedian slip)?
We also need to clone Senator McCarthy and begin tossing these anti AMERICAN's on the shovel ready moat and borders that need to be built, begin drilling and building nukes. No tolerance for those that deserve a slow ETERNAL burn.
Might be best NOT to jail but have huge chain gangs to build the borders, and dismantle all that they've done to try and destroy America. More taxes? No, take THEIR money, use it to get America back on track.
Miserable SCUM! They want communism, give them a Haitian boat and send them sailing to China via the Pacific launching them from Sodomy Francisco.
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"Until the people have, by some solemn and authoritative act, annulled or changed the established form, it is binding upon them collectively, as well as individually; and no presumption or even knowledge of their sentiments, can warrant their representatives [the executive, judiciary, or legislature]; in a departure from it prior to such an act." - Alexander Hamilton In the first of the eighty-five "Federalist Papers," Alexander Hamilton emphasized that:
The Framers knew that the passage of time would surely disclose imperfections or inadequacies in the Constitution, but these were to be repaired or remedied by formal amendment, not by legislative action or judicial construction (or reconstruction). Hamilton (in The Federalist No. 78) was emphatic about this:
The Congress, unlike the British Parliament, was not given final authority over the Constitution, which partly explains why the judicial authority was lodged in a separate and independent branch of government. In Britain the supreme judicial authority is exercised by a committee of the House of Lords, which is appropriate in a system of parliamentary supremacy, but, although it was suggested they do so, the Framers refused to follow the British example. The American system is one of constitutional supremacy, which means that sovereignty resides in the people, not in the King-in-Parliament; and the idea that the Constitution may be changed by an act of the legislature--even an act subsequently authorized by the judiciary--is simply incompatible with the natural right of the people to determine how (and even whether) they shall be governed. Unlike in Britain where, formally at least, the queen rules by the grace of God (Dei gratia regina), American government rests on the consent of the people; and, according to natural right, the consent must be given formally. In fact, it must be given in a written compact entered into by the people. Here is Madison on the compacts underlying American government:
Neither civil society (or as Madison puts it, "the people in their social state') nor government exists by nature. By nature everyone is sovereign with respect to himself, free to do whatever in his judgment is necessary to preserve his own life - or, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, everyone is endowed by nature with the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of a happiness that he defines for himself. Civil society is an artificial person (constituted by the first of the compacts), and it is civil society that institutes and empowers government. So it was that they became "the People of the United States" in 1776 and, in 1787-88, WE, THE PEOPLE ordained and established "this Constitution for the United States of America." In this formal compact THE PEOPLE specified the terms and conditions under which "ourselves and posterity," would be governed: granting some powers and withholding others, and organizing the powers granted with a view to preventing their misuse by the legislative, the executive, and the judicial branches alike. WE THE PEOPLE were authorized by natural right to do this, and were authorized to act on behalf of posterity only insofar as the rights of posterity to change those terms and conditions were respected. This was accomplished in Article V of the Constitution, the amending article, which prescribed the forms to be followed when exercising that power in the future.
The Framers had designed a constitutional structure for a government which would be limited by that structure - by the distribution of power into distinct departments, a system of legislative balances and checks, an independent judiciary, a system of representation, and an enlargement of the orbit "within which such systems are to revolve" And to the judges they assigned the duty, as "faithful guardians of the Constitution," to preserve the integrity of the structure, for it is by the structure (more than by "parchment barriers") that the government is limited. It would he only a slight exaggeration to say that, in the judgment of the Founders, the Constitution would "live" as long as that structure was preserved. The Enduring American ConstitutionNow, almost 200 years later, one can read Hamilton's words in Federalist No. 1 and conclude that, under some conditions, some "societies of men" are capable of "establishing good government," but that most are not. This is not for lack of trying; on the contrary, constitutions are being written all the time - of some 164 countries in the world, all but a small handful (seven by the latest count) have written constitutions - but most of them are not long-lived. In September 1983, the American Enterprise Institute sponsored an international conference on constitution writing at the Supreme Court of the United States; some twenty-odd countries were represented. With the exception of the Americans, the persons present had themselves played a role - in some cases a major role - in the writing of their countries' constitutions, most of them written since 1970. Only the constitution of the French Fifth Republic predated 1970; and the Nigerian, so ably discussed and defended at the 1983 conference by one of its own Framers, had subsequently been subverted, much as the four previous French republican constitutions had been subverted. It would seem that many peoples are experienced in the writing of constitutions, but only a few of them - conspicuous among these the people of America - have an experience of stable constitutional government. In that sense, we surely have "a living Constitution." That is not, however, the sense in which the term is ordinarily used in the literature of constitutional law as shall be explored herein. Treating The Constitution As
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That to me is the real danger to our country. We all know very well what the Constitution is and why it is important. But many don't.
It's the same with illegal immigration. We understand the danger of it. But many are clueless. As long as the cable TV works, and the drive through has french fries; who cares (is their feeling)?
American history and culture has been downplayed for so long, many are dead to it.