Posted on 09/07/2018 6:15:23 AM PDT by C19fan
If the United States has a sacred text, it’s the Constitution. Americans are taught, from an early age, to venerate the 231-year-old document, which occupies what can only be described as a shrine at the National Archives. The presidency of Donald Trump illustrates the problem with this veneration. It is not that Trump lacks for critics, but that the Constitution does. Not enough people connect the dots between our political dysfunctions and the sacred Constitution of 1787.
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The framers of the Constitution did not want a government that was efficient at anything. A government with an absolute monarch is very efficient, just not pleasant to live under.
Leftist/statists cannot understand that the intent of the founders was not an all powerful government that grants a paltry number of rights to the people, but rather a government that is limited to a few areas of responsibility with strict accountability by the governed. Is the Constitution perfect, of course not, no system of government devised by man is perfect. The Constitution can and has been changed when two thirds of congress and three quarters of the states agree. History has shown our constitutional government has given us freedom unrivaled in human history, and a standard of living envied by the world.
Constitution requires humans to be elected to Congress. We would be better served if we could pick a donkey or an elephant, reporting to one human. It would have zero effect on votes.
Three reasons why this is a good idea:
1. It would save a boatload of money;
2. Donkeys and elephants are quieter; and
3. The mess the donkeys and elephants make is easier to clean up.
There were Senators yesterday who took an oath to abide by the Constitution but now decided their is a political advantage to taking a knee. There is not much respect for the Constitution by the Resistance Movement.
Actually, the critical and foundational American document is not the constitution, that is the format of our government and while it is a unique example of checks and balances and of representational republican ideology, what truly is ground breaking and exciting is the American Declaration of Independence.
Whereas the constitution represents the mechanics, the how if you will the DOI declares the Right to claim Liberty and Independence to form one people’s own safeguards for that liberty, and even extends the Right further-to declare that those same people indeed have the right and responsibility to safeguard their liberty even to the point of throwing off the one they created if and when it fails to protect that which was sacred to them in the beginning-Liberty. Government exists only to protect the Rights, Privileges and Immunities of the people who empower it. Any time when those key principles of government are being voided, then the people themselves, in whom all civil power is vested, have the duty to correct the azimuth or even to throw off these methods and set new ones. Radical Huh?
Of course, the Founders recognized that some groups would perhaps see the need to reorganize earlier and for less than necessary reasons- so they described in detail how a long train of abuses and usurpation had to be addressed and then and only then, if redress failed and the only logical conclusion was the removal of the rights of the people to govern through representative republican methods, then revolution, the throwing off of those parameters and methods and safeguard and the establishment of new ones was appropriate.
I daresay that we are not there- sure, there are groups within our “posse comitatus” that want to throw off everything, there always ahs been and always will be the extreme fringes, but for light and transient reasons; the course is held.
We enjoy elected representation, our officers appoint and bodies politic advise and consent and due process is carried out, with groaning and failings for certain, but until our local state and federal legislatures are dissolved, and judges and executives self appointed and we have descended into near complete tranny, we must operate within the context of the constitutional framework- the methods selected and ratified by the people, modifying it via lawful means (laws and amendments) as we see fit and appropriate.
Vote, Write, Speak, adjure and cajole if need be, but do not accept the false premise that the ship is sinking and all we are doing is rearranging the deck chairs.
God Bless the American People, the most generous, long suffering, freedom loving and fierce people on the face of the earth.
And this Democrat jackass is a law prof. Lawyers and teachers make up a ugh portion of the rat party.
THE CONSTITUTION IS NOT THE PROBLEM....
The problem is the government NO LONGER OBEYS THE LAW AND INDIVIDUALS WALK AWAY UNPUNISHED....
THAT IS THE PROBLEM...
No it doesn’t.
It needs to be followed.
NO,NO,NO, AND H3LL NO!!!
These traitorous tricksters do and say everything they can to destroy our great US Constitution.
I took an OATH to that Constitution, not as a child, but as a MAN, not once but several times.
It was an HOLY oath, I declared unto God, to protect it against ALL enemies.
That oath still applies 100% with me.
There are millions like me.
Hands off!!!
So what’s your brilliant plan Politico? Give the government MORE power so Trump can do more.
Morons.
Government is working as intended. If partisanship reigns then the government does nothing which is as it should be! That’s not a bug - thats a feature!
I think this is their problem:
Trump beat Hillary.
That’s it.
His win was made possible by the Electoral College, as the Constitution proscribes the election for the President is a vote in 50 separate states, which then gets tallied to decide the winner..
Because Trump won, in their rage and anger, they want to do away with the Constitutional provision like the Electoral College.
Ask yourself this:
If Trump won the popular vote, and Hillary won the Electoral College vote, who would be president, and would Politico still want the Constitution changed?
Bonus points if you laugh...
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The dysfunctional desperate delusional leftist progressive socialist communist fascist totalitarian loonybin-fit democrats need a reboot. Most of them don’t even know why they hate Trump and cannot tell you one bad thing Trump did that affected or will affect their life or the life of a loved one. They yell msm-dem group-think propaganda sound bites at Trump supporters.
MSM-dems don’t understand that it’s time to shake out the laundry and get rid of what is raggedy, old and doesn’t fit anymore and it’s the constitution that gives us the right to do so in a safe, non-violent way. It’s the terrorist-democrat party that began the first Civil War and has behaved mostly uncivil since then. Inflating their own narcissistic egos to irrationally think they know better then the nonviolent rest of us, who are pissed off at their dangerous government mismanagement and corrupt idealogies. They are ignoramuses, educated, but without wisdom or common sense. They must be stopped from destroying our government, our nation and the world. Leaders like the dems, who support rioting and mob violence against an innocent non-violent opposition are tyrants and need to be put in a long term time out.
Politico would have us use a 6k page Constitution worse than the Canadian version it would become a list of things the government can do to us and a never ending list of things the people cannot do.
F that idea.
We would have been a lot better off if we had had just ONE person willing to uphold the Constitution and prevent the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
Barack Obama is NOT a natural born citizen.
BOTH parties conspired to violate the Constitution.
This author is crazy. It is difficult to pass legislation? Maybe he should prove his point by reading the text of every law written since 1900. It wouldn’t take that long if his assertion is correct.
Leftists hate the Constitution because it thwarts their ambition to impose a highly centralized government which will enact socialism, strict gun confiscation, massive regulation of business and full bore Gaia Worship via the EPA. No surprise.
We don’t need a reboot of the constitution. We need to start following it again. That specifically means we need to strip away many of the powers the federal government usurped starting about 150 years ago, and return those powers to the sovereign states as the Founding Fathers intended.
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