Posted on 12/03/2013 11:18:12 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike
During a congressional committee hearing about the constitutional limits imposed on the presidency and the implications of President Barack Obama’s disregard for implementing the Affordable Care Act as written, one expert testified that the consequences of the president’s behavior were potentially grave. He said that the precedent set by Obama could eventually lead to an armed revolt against the federal government.
On Tuesday, Michael Cannon, Cato Institute’s Director of Health Policy Studies, testified before a congressional committee about the dangers of the president’s legal behavior.
“There is one last thing to which the people can resort if the government does not respect the restrains that the constitution places on the government,” Cannon said. “Abraham Lincoln talked about our right to alter our government or our revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
Watch the clip below via C-SPAN 2:
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Wadda ya think “Tea Party” means?
speaking truth to power….. isn’t that what the lefties want???
speaking truth to power….. isn’t that what the lefties want???
They should be careful what they wish for.
And this would be a very bad thing if it came to that. My reading of history tells me that far more often than not, a violent change of regime does not lead to an era of freedom. Instead, the people who use force to gain power are not the sort who will freely surrender it. We have the exceptional example of 1776 in this country, but as far as I can tell, it is a rare exception to the rule.
jeffry toobin has a column in the NYT advocating the scrapping of the US constitution.
Whichever law school gave him a law degree should lose accreditation.
It is the overthrowing of government
Basically SSDD with leadership post regime change?
The officer corps should honor their oath to defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
It's not that the People would overthrow the government, it's that the government has overthrown us.
The government is the Constitution, which we all support. It's those in power who have rejected it, and exercised power without legal authority, that need to be turned out.
The “Feral” Govt needs to “choose” it’s next revolution, American or FRENCH!
I strongly disagree. It would not be an overthrow of The Federal Government, it would be an overthrow of the socialist tyrants who subverted the Federal Government.
I’ve been ready for a long time.
bttt
‘...could...’
There ya go. That’s almost a sure thing.
More red meat for the libs to complain about, thats about it.
execute |ˈeksiˌkyo͞ot| verb
ON THE CONSTITUTION
I’m wondering if this should be kept under wraps until after next Nov.
Can’t believe how ignorant some of the commenters at the site are...
Not a very articulate bunch...
“overthrow” is quite a ways off.
Right now we’re at the
“we recognize the current government as illegitimate” stage.
And that’s just what Obama wants us to try. It would give him free reign to disarm us and send us to the camps.
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