Posted on 01/28/2005 5:53:15 AM PST by utahguy
What Is The Constitution? by Thomas Paine (Liberals, your so called judges are breaking the law)
CONSTITUTION is not a real thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal but a real existence, and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent (precursor or forerunner) to a government, and a government is the only creature of a constitution.
The constitution of a country is not an act of its government, but of a people constituting a government. It is the body of elements to which you refer, and quote article by article, and contains the principles on which it shall be organized - the powers it shall have - the mode of elections - the duration of congress - and, in fine, everything that relates to the complete organization of a civil government, and the principles on which it shall act, and which it shall be bound.
A constitution is to a government, therefore, what the laws made by the government are to the court of judicature. The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made; and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution.
If I may reiterate the last passage:
The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made; and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution.
It is high time that our current leaders stop acting like RINO’s and start teaching and enforcing the laws our Founding Fathers set forth for this country.
Source: The Joy of Words
Copyright 1960
J.G. Ferguson Publishing Company, Chicago Illinois
A brief biography on Thomas Paine can be found here:
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/tpaine/paine.htm
The American CONSTITUTION is just the summation of all of the "lessons learned" from Europe, in which, Old Europe was the summation of all of the knowledge known from the history of mankind.
WE THE PEOPLE, of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Great post! this is the stuff that should be taught in "Social Studies" and WAS before History was deleted so that it could be rewritten...
Our constitution is amendable when necessary. The Founding Fathers gave us that right.
But, if the people accept the outrages of the Judicial branch of our government then our Constitution, that was written to protect the people against overbearing government, will be used against them.
THey have begun rewriting the US Constution with the passage of the Hate Crime Laws.The Hate Crimes Laws are nothing more than the implementation of the Values set forth in the European Socialist Manefesto.
They undermine our Gurantee of Freedom of Speech by the Constitution. The Hate Crimes were put into law to do just that. We have the right to Hate just as we have the right to Love. The Constitution of the United States is slowly but surely being replaced with the Socialist Version of the European Constitution, read it for yourself:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318061/posts?page=6#6
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318038/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318034/posts
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=954
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1254190/posts
If the government is overbearing we have the opportunity, every two years, to start fresh. If the Judiciary "misinterprets" the law written by Congress, re-write the law so it's clear.
We're not helpless, people.
Not only are we NOT helpless, we are the actual BOSS of the government through our vote, through our will.
If the Judiciary consistently "misinterprets" the laws that the Legislature has written how many rewrites will it take for the Judiciary to understand them?
Also, if the Judiciary "misinterprets" the Constitution how can it be rewritten?
We now have a Judicial system that doesn't "misinterpret", but "reinterprets" law. We have a Congress with the power to correct that situation, but doesn't.
...we have the opportunity, every two years, to start fresh.
That's only half of the equation. We could use a through sweeping of the Senate as well.
I'm thinking that if we wait for 'the government' to right this wrong we'll be waiting a Cold Forever. Isn't it up to us to do this? To start this? We the People do have the power and the voice. Where to start? That is a good question, but I think, at best, our representatives will only speak when they hear from us, loud and clear.
Agreed. The best way would be to repeal the 17th.
Much harder for special interests to buy a Senator -- they'd have to buy a majority of the state legislature (doable, but visible). Plus, the Senators would have more of the interests of the state in mind.
Short of that, term limits.
The judiciary got it's lesson in reinterpreting the the law courtesy of FDR and a Democrat controlled Congress in 1937.
I am so encouraged by Bush's re-election. I think it is a sign of a huge change in the Quiet People who hold this country together. People are sick to death of Gay Marriage being crammed down our throats, of Political Correctness, of Hate Crime legislation, of Christians being arrested for speaking the Truth about homosexuality, about Judicial Re-Interpretation of the Law. Liberals are jumping ship, re-registering Republican. It is a good time to take our country back. Don't forget, the American Revolution was conservative.
Labels like "conservative" and "liberal" are politically relative, along with the terms "reactionary" and "revolutionary". Terms like "socialist" and "libertarian" are absolute. At the time, the American Revolution was not conservative, it was revolutionary, by definition.
Words mean things. Saying "the American Revolution was conservative" is a nice slogan, but semantically it's nonsense.
Actually, it was liberals who fought the conservative British. But, the word "liberal" had a whole different meaning back then.
Today's "liberals" are actually socialists who avoid that name.
This is BS. If you have liberal Judges they will legislate from the bench, they have been doing it. If you change the law they will change it from the bench. This is illegal. They are supposed to uphold the law not legislate. That is what the legislature is for. That is why we have 3 branches of government, to balance each other. We need to get judges that do the job lawfully and not according to their opinion and until we do our constitutional rights will continue to erode.
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