Posted on 03/03/2002 2:20:03 PM PST by The Raven
That one deserves two thumbs up.
Well....if we're starting a revolution to overthrow the government and put it back the way it was....count me in
But whether we like it or not it requires a Republican president and a Republican congress to appoint them.
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Sad but true.
So in March, 1937, Roosevelt had a little chat with America. He told the people he was trying to save them, but the Court was getting in his way. He said it was getting in his way unconstitutionally. He suggested that maybe Justices should be forced to retire at age 70, which would clear six of them from the bench immediately, and that maybe he would push for amendments to the Constitution if the Court didn't change its position.
HA!! That's rich. The court helped deep six the tenth, but it was a Republican president, and you know who I'm talking about, that destroyed any chance of this nation keeping the ideals of what the Founders envisioned.
Now I'm not going to turn this into one of 'those' threads, and I am not by any means kicking on some Republicans in office. However, the Republican party is quickly turning into the centrist party. Evidence the crowning of Liddy Dole here in NC. 10 years ago, if someone like her ran on the Republican ticket in this state, she wouldn't even get 1% in the primaries. Today, the RNC has dubbed her 'THE' Republican candidate even before the primary. They've even started sponsoring ads attacking the Democrats without even a mention of who she is running against in the primary.
As for the Tenth Amendment, to return the power back to the states(where it rightly belongs) would mean in fact to overturn the 14th, 16th, and 17th Amendments. And the loss of power at the federal level would be devastating to bureaucracy built up in the past 100 or so years by both parties. They would be sitting around twiddling their thumbs with no real power within the US except with the occasional interstate commerce bills, passing a random Treasury bill, and passing any defense bills that came across their desks
The other problem is that it would validate the argument made so many years ago by my ancestors that the states have the right to do whatever they choose is in the best interests of their respective citizens. While I might wish and hope for this day, I know that it will never fully come(at least not in my lifetime), because men in Washington would not relinquish the power that they have built for themselves over the years
I am not kicking on the Republican party here so much as rallying for returning the party back to its ideals, that of conservative leadership guided by the tenets of the Constitution
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
It seems to me that the government is, and has been, a fire burning out of control for some time now. We (Americans in general) just don't have the will to try and stop it.
It has been left unattended and unchecked to the point where there's only a few that even care enough to speak out against it. Most people only see and feel the warmth that the fire provides, they just don't realize the fire has the absolute power to destroy them.
A biblical Christian view doesn't treat the virtues (self sacrifice, restrained government) as an either-or.
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