“We the People” goes deeper than just an expression of democracy. European powers had long claimed they ruled because they had been *anointed* to rule by God. Thus anyone who challenged them was also challenging Heaven.
The founding fathers wanted no confusion in this. They wanted it clear that men created the constitution and the law, so men could change them without offending God. That nobody could use religion as an excuse for tyranny, claiming that they, and they alone, had the right to rule.
To know Mark is to know an activist. He ran for a school board seat at nineteen years of age and has twisted liberal tails ever since.
Given that reform will not emerge from the Wash DC denizens, I got off my duff a couple months ago, before his book release. After several letters to editors and communications with my state representative, the overall response has not been encouraging. It just means I'll continue, and hopefully, others will join.
We have the means to save our dying republic; history will not look kindly on us if we just sit back and let it die.
Just the latest example of how one of his proposed amendments would be helpful ( term limits for Congress and the federal judiciary, and the ability for Congress and the States to override bad SC rulings.) We need to push for a convention to propose amendments!
"Having witnessed the difficulties and dangers experienced by the first [Constitutional] Convention which assembled under every propitious circumstance, I should tremble for the result of a second.""That useful alterations will be suggested by experience could not but be foreseen....The mood preferred by the Convention seems to be stamped with every mark of propriety. It guards equally against that extreme facility which would render the Constitution too mutable; and that extreme difficulty which might perpetuate its discovered faults. It more over equally enables the general and the state governments to originate the amendment of errors as they may be pointed out by the experience on one side or on the other."
"Altho' the idea of a compact between the GOVT. & the people be just exploded, the idea of a compact among those who are parties to a GOVT. is a fundamental principle of free GOVT.
"The original compact is the one implied or presumed, but nowhere reduced to writing, by which a people agree to form one society. The next is a compact, here for the first time reduced to writing, by which the people in their social state agree to a GOVT. over them." - (In a letter to Nicholas P. Trist, February 15, 1830)
"Should the provision of the Constitution...be found not to secure the government and rights of the states of usurpations and abuses...the final resort within purview of the Constitution, lies in an amendment of the Constitution, according to a process applicable by the states."
” To introduce more political accountability, the author would require a three-fifths supermajority vote in Congress to raise the debt ceiling and, in a nice touch, move Election Day to the day after income taxes are due to be filed.”
Let’s do it.