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1 posted on 01/19/2016 6:42:19 PM PST by Kaslin
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2 posted on 01/19/2016 6:54:37 PM PST by EveningStar (It's a cult.)
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The Constitution will continually be weakened and destroyed as long as massive, leftist-progressive government exists - and that is supported 100% by our fiat, unbacked monetary system.

Eliminate the Federal Reserve, return money and interest rates to the free-market, out of political/ideological control, and the USA will immediately return to limited, Constitutional government.

Don’t do that - and reform will be impossible.


3 posted on 01/19/2016 6:59:40 PM PST by PGR88
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I’m for jailing any Congressman or -woman who sponsors legislation judged unconstitutional. For life. Since the Supreme Court can’t be trusted to make such judgments anymore, I’ll do it myself.


4 posted on 01/19/2016 7:01:43 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Congress has been reworking the Constitution since the beginning until it means little today. The best example would be the 2nd amendment.

There have been so many laws put into effect over the years that the true meaning of the 2nd amendment doesn’t even resemble the original intent.


6 posted on 01/19/2016 7:03:51 PM PST by doc1019 (Cruz)
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How about FOLLOWING the Constitution.


7 posted on 01/19/2016 7:05:29 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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The 16th and 17th amendments broke the Constitution on purpose. These so called “progressive” amendments have worked flawlessly.


8 posted on 01/19/2016 7:07:12 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Thank you for referencing that article Kaslin. As usual, please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Get rid of the ill-conceived 17th Amendment and let state lawmakers once again uniquely elect state sovereignty-respecting federal senators as the Founding States had originally intended for the system to work.

After all, why allow corrupt, popularly elected Washington cartel senators to help the House pass unconstitutional bills, bills that not only steal 10th Amendment-protected states powers but also state revenues uniquely associated with those powers, when that same Senate also confirms state sovereignty-ignoring justices who then wrongly declare that such laws are constitutional?

In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohbiited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

Remember in November !

So if patriots elect Trump, or whatever conservative they elect, they will also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the president.

Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices confirmed by previous generations of likewise state sovereignty-ignoring senators.

13 posted on 01/19/2016 7:50:19 PM PST by Amendment10
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The high court itself would have to muster seven votes to strike down "a democratically enacted law."

The cases holding that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep arms were all decided by a vote of 5-4. So under Abbott's proposal, all of those "democratically enacted" gun control laws would still be valid.

14 posted on 01/19/2016 8:09:42 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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Greg Abbott is spot on correct. The talkie heads are idiots.

The prospect of an Article V convention is popular in Texas.

Leftist can pound sand.


15 posted on 01/19/2016 8:40:44 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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I like our Governor.


17 posted on 01/20/2016 12:31:18 AM PST by jospehm20
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It doesn’t matter what the constitution actually says as long as corrupt leftist and Big-Gov politicians and Supreme Court Justices ignore and/or twist it’s meaning to push the leftist agenda.


18 posted on 01/20/2016 1:00:11 AM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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