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"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre / mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." "Thought must be the harder, heart be the keener / mind must be the greater, as our might lessens." |
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Posted on 03/28/2015 2:24:52 PM PDT by kingattax
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Exactly.
Put me on the list please.
“Imagine having a President that can speak without using a teleprompter.”
And, imagine a President who speaks without constantly looking left and right like he is at a tennis match as he bounces between the Totus display.
A President who can look directly in the eye of the audience straight ahead of him as he speaks.
Well said.
but .. it’s not for the politicians and the press .. it’s for the public who has not been taught it in our schools for almost 40 years.
We have a whole generation who do not know what the Constitution is; what it says; and what it doesn’t.
I would suggest anointing the building with oil .. and I’m serious.
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"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre / mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." "Thought must be the harder, heart be the keener / mind must be the greater, as our might lessens." |
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You’ve been added to the Ted Cruz Ping List!
I was selling my books at a gun show in Sacramento last weekend. Some older dude was chatting about how much he knew our Constitution, so I asked him a couple of simple questions about it.
He couldn’t answer one.
My point, we have to KNOW our Constitution and we have to KNOW how to argue its case.
Conservatives should know more because they must educate all the others.
To the Left, “living document” is just a euphemism for “dead letter”.
It is also a convenient confusion (confusion is a major component of how the Left advances their agenda of tyranny and Rule of Man) of law versus application of the law. The Left pretends that the Constitution as is cannot meet our modern-day problems (translation: the Constitution won't let them limitlessly expand government). But what confusion do they generate?
They confuse the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended with its application to the facts at hand. They pretend that because today's facts are so much different than 200 years ago the Constitution can't be applied and must be changed in some way other than the Article V way.
But push aside the purposeful confusion and what do you get? A Constitution which, as written and originally understood and intended, can absolutely be applied to our modern day issues. The REAL "living" part of the Constitution is how it can, as written and originally intended, be very ably applied to a changing world and changing factual issues and problems that confront us.
But as we know the Left doesn't want the Constitution as is to work and they don't try to do so. When it is applied in good faith to changing modern-day problems, the Constitution simply shows what the federal government is allowed to do and what it may not do. If the problem or issue lies outside the bounds of what the federal government may do, then the states, people, and free market economy can take it from there. It works, it always has worked and always will work. That's what the Leftists hate.
The issue really boils down to those that believe in freedom and those that don't. Those that believe in freedom know that our modern day problems can best be solved by the innovative, agile, and intelligent elements of the free-market economy which is freedom in action. Those that believe in collectivism and central government planning declare basically that freedom and a free constitutional republic can't possibly meet the complex challenges of today. But that is a lie.
I totally agree.
Hillsdale College teaches mandatory Constitution classes, and they offer them free - online. All you have to do is go there and sign up - they email you each class - at the end, you can take a final exam if you want.
I don’t know how to get out the info - but it sure would be good if more people would really learn what our laws really mean.
They just started a series on The Federalist Papers. I’m anxious to start it.
Two Freepers had an excellent series on the Federalists right here on Free Republic.
From the following link you can find all their fine work, check out all the links that are listed:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2686142/posts
Ping to the Authors
Wow! That’s great - I’ll check it out.
It is also a convenient confusion (confusion is a major component of how the Left advances their agenda of tyranny and Rule of Man) of law versus application of the law. The Left pretends that the Constitution as is cannot meet our modern-day problems (translation: the Constitution won't let them limitlessly expand government). But what confusion do they generate?
They confuse the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended with its application to the facts at hand. They pretend that because today's facts are so much different than 200 years ago the Constitution can't be applied and must be changed in some way other than the Article V way.
But push aside the purposeful confusion and what do you get? A Constitution which, as written and originally understood and intended, can absolutely be applied to our modern day issues. The REAL "living" part of the Constitution is how it can, as written and originally intended, be very ably applied to a changing world and changing factual issues and problems that confront us.
But as we know the Left doesn't want the Constitution as is to work and they don't try to do so. When it is applied in good faith to changing modern-day problems, the Constitution simply shows what the federal government is allowed to do and what it may not do. If the problem or issue lies outside the bounds of what the federal government may do, then the states, people, and free market economy can take it from there. It works, it always has worked and always will work. That's what the Leftists hate.
The issue really boils down to those that believe in freedom and those that don't. Those that believe in freedom know that our modern day problems can best be solved by the innovative, agile, and intelligent elements of the free-market economy which is freedom in action. Those that believe in collectivism and central government planning declare basically that freedom and a free constitutional republic can't possibly meet the complex challenges of today. But that is a lie.
It is not a living document, that is such garbage. It is timeless.
Very, very well-stated.
Kudos.
Thank you for your kind words.
Let’s shout it from the mountaintops.
That series is being turned into a book. We’re in the footnotes and bibliography stage.
Thanks for the ping.
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