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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, 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.Article. I. Section. 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Section. 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the...

Rick Perry has many ideas about how to change the American government's founding document. From ending lifetime tenure for federal judges to completely scrapping two whole amendments, the Constitution would see a major overhaul if the Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate had his druthers. Perry laid out these proposed innovations to the founding document in his book, Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington. He has occasionally mentioned them on the campaign trail. Several of his ideas fall within the realm of mainstream conservative thinking today, but, as you will see, there are also a few surprises.

Yesterday, the House passed the largely non-controversial Military Construction/Veterans Affairs Appropriations (MilCon) bill for FY 2012. Unfortunately, it is these non-controversial bills which provide a safe haven for meretricious policy initiatives through the rapid fire amendment process. While everyone was focused on presidential politics, the House passed an amendment forcing government contractors to use labor unions on federal construction projects. Oh, and like most bad legislation, this amendment passed by one vote, with the help of 27 Republicans. In 2009, Obama used his signature power grab tool; an Executive Order, forcing all private companies to sign a project labor agreement...

Jim Inhofe to Democrats: 'Get a life'By DARREN GOODE | 4/5/11 3:08 PM EDT Sen. Jim Inhofe has a simple message to House Democratic critics of the Republican plan to derail EPA climate change regulations: “Get a life.” The Senate Environment and Public Works ranking member wasn’t amused by the series of snarky Democratic amendments to rename the GOP legislation preventing EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) offered a series of amendments to the House measure — which Inhofe is pushing in the Senate — to change the title of the...

The barbaric Middle Eastern practice of honor killing has made an appearance on our shores. It happens when men murder members of their own family to avenge purported slights against Islam. For instance, Pakistan-born Muzzammil Hassan allegedly beat and then beheaded his wife Aasiya in Buffalo, N.Y. on Feb. 12, 2009. Six days earlier, Aasiya announced her intention to file for divorce and obtained a restraining order. In another example, Iraq-born Faleh-Hassan Almaleki allegedly ran down his 20-year-old daughter Noor with his Jeep Cherokee near their Phoenix home on Oct. 20, 2009. Noor was killed and the mother of her...

AMENDMENTS - AMENDMENTS AT-A-GLANCE: Sponsors, donors, costs, legislation text, public records, etc. - AMENDMENT #4 in depth - AMENDMENT #4 financed by big Democrat donor who is also behind FL-25 Democrat Joe Garcia - AMENDMENT #5 and #6 in depth (George Soros & leftwing groups financing these Amendments) GUIDES & BALLOT - 2010 VOTER GUIDES: Candidates, Amendments, Judges…for Miami & Florida - SAMPLE BALLOT for Miami-Dade County CANDIDATES FOR FLORIDA GOVERNOR: - FL GOV: Rick Scott v. Alex Sink: On the Issues CANDIDATES FOR FLORIDA'S 25TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: - FL-25: Joe Garcia v. David Rivera: On the Issues -...

MEET CHRISTOPHER FINDLATER - BIG DEMOCRAT DONORLefty Godfather behind Amendment #4 and FL-25 Democrat Candidate Joe Garcia. As reported last month, Chris Findlater and other leftists were behind the attack ads against GOP candidate David Rivera to benefit their beloved candidate, Democrat Joe Garcia. Findlater is also behind the proponents of Amendment #4, the group Florida Hometown Democracy, Inc., PAC. He created a group Hometown Democracy Fund which has $2 millions on hand and donated $200,000 to Florida Hometown Democracy. More on Christopher Findlater and his groups: - Hometown Democracy shares the same address with Florida Hometown Democracy, Inc.,...

Leftwing Radical George Soros, Unions, and Lawyers are behind these Amendments Check who has donated to the proponents: here. SUPPORTERS & DONORS: These measures are supported and bankrolled by lawyers, unions and true-leftist Democrat Party loyalists like ACLU, NAACP, the League of Women Voters, etc. Charlie Crist. George Soros George Soros behind the Amendments: The proponents, Fair Districts for Florida, "amassed a war chest of almost $7 million, according to campaign finance reports filed Friday. Most of the money has come in six-figure checks from liberal special interests including teachers' unions, trial attorneys and America Votes, a get-out-the-vote group...

U.S. Sovereignty – Amendment XXVIII No person residing within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have an illegal citizenship status, nor obtain any support, funding, or benefits provided to citizens of the United States. No child of parents who are illegal residents shall be considered a citizen of the United States at birth. No citizen of the United States shall be a citizen of another nation. Citizens of the United States who are also citizens of one or more foreign nations must declare their allegiance to the United States on or before their 21st Birthday. Citizens who do not...

Floridians are holding dozens of house parties across the state Saturday with hopes of publicizing their support for two amendments that could be overshadowed on the November ballot by high-profile statewide races for U.S. Senate and other offices. Sponsored by FairDistrictsFlorida.org, activists planned 56 parties at homes or in some cases restaurants or coffee shops to educate others about Amendments 5 and 6. Each would make it harder for lawmakers to draw districts that favor any particular party or incumbent. The amendments are intended to protect minority voters and are backed by the NAACP. Spreading the word through house parties...

WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia won his seat in Congress campaigning as a strict defender of the Constitution. He carries a copy in his pocket and is particularly fond of invoking the Second Amendment right to bear arms. But it turns out there are parts of the document he doesn't care for — lots of them. He wants to get rid of the language about birthright citizenship, federal income taxes and direct election of senators, among others. He would add plenty of stuff, including explicitly authorizing castration as punishment for child rapists. This hot-and-cold take on the...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Earl Taylor has spent 31 years teaching that "the Founding Fathers have answers to nearly every problem we have in America today." Only in recent months has he found so many eager students. On a recent Saturday, he held the rapt attention of 70 of them. The eight-hour seminar held at a roadside inn here was one of half a dozen "Making of America" sessions nationwide that day, all sponsored by a little-known organization based in Idaho. Two years ago, Taylor, president of the National Center for Constitutional Studies, made about 35 trips to speak to small...

A look at the nine amendments on Florida's ballotBy Howard Troxler, Times Columnist In Print: Sunday, May 30, 2010 There are nine proposed amendments to our state Constitution on this November's ballot. Nine! That's gonna take some reading in the voting booth. Some people blame it on all those citizen petitions going around. That's why the Legislature has tried to crack down on petitions in recent years. But wait. Of this year's nine amendments, only three were proposed by petition. Six were placed on the ballot by the Legislature itself. Ready? **SNIP** Amendment 9 is the Republican Legislature's answer to...

There can never, not ever, exist a true one-person, one-vote Democracy. Unless one is on a desert isle with six other mentally capable adult castaways, there will always be children, infants, the insane, the comatose, the demented, the despicable, and so forth, none of whom can vote. The point of mentioning this trivial truth is that we always—always—must draw arbitrary lines of suffrage. Because these lines grow so familiar that they are no longer seen cannot be an excuse to ban revisiting their justification. And so, repeal the 17th! That amendment was adopted in 1913 (a year of insanity); it...

Article V of the United States Constitution discusses the concept of amending the Constitution. Most people are familiar with the traditional way of amending the Constitution – 2/3 of each house of Congress proposes amendments, which then have to be ratified by the state legislatures or by conventions in 3/4 of the states. But there is another way to amend the Constitution, and it has gotten increased attention in recent days: The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of...

The United States government should not provide Viagra to sex offenders. That should be a very easy statement to agree with, even for Democrats who strongly favor the far-left Obama agenda. But thanks to Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), Senate Democrats may have to publicly vote against an amendment to health care legislation entitled "No Erectile Dysfunction Drugs To Sex Offenders."

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans were girding for battle yesterday as they plotted new strategies to try to take down President Obama's health plan, repeal it, or tie it up in legal knots. Just hours after the House passed a landmark overhaul, Republican strategies to fight back were emerging, even as Obama and the Democrats savored their biggest victory yet. "There will be no cooperation for the rest of the year," fumed Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on an Arizona radio station. "They have poisoned the well in what they've done and how they've done it." "Outside the Beltway, the American people...

To the leaders of the Republican Party, I think it's essential that we Republicans develop a simple, coherent, and easy-to-articulate national platform to channel the massive rage awakened by the Obamunists. We must not lose the opportunity for effecting positive, permanent change that this rage can bring about. We must give this rage a positive focus, namely a goal to permanently take back our country from the radical left. I'm not talking about simply repealing Obamacare. The repeal issue is necessary but not sufficient. I'm talking about permanent, visionary change. Namely, I think the national Republicans should develop a small...

Senate Republicans have a counter attack ready if, despite the president's allegedly bipartisan summit, Democrats try to pass Obamacare via mis-use of the reconciliation process. While that process requires only a simple majority to pass a bill and limits debate time, it does not limit the number or content of proposed amendments to a reconciliation bill and Republicans could offer hundreds of them, forcing Democrats to vote on each one. On the surface this may seem like a bad idea - just postponing the inevitable and annoying the American people with a display of the meaningless gamesmanship that all too...

Jefferson City, Mo. (AP) - Although President Barack Obama's push for a health care overhaul has stalled, conservative lawmakers in more than two-thirds of the states are forging ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates. The proposals would assert a state-based right for people to pay medical bills from their own pocketbooks and prohibit penalties against those who refuse to carry health insurance. In many states, the proposals began as a backlash to Democratic health care plans pending in Congress. But instead of backing away after a Massachusetts election gave Senate Republicans the filibuster power to halt...