Time Magazine: Constitution Doesn't Limit Government, ObamaCare Constitutional

Newsbusters ^ | June 23, 2011 | Eric Ames

[lowbridge]

Regular readers of Time magazine this week found in their mailbox yet another pile of leftist tripe in the vein of "the Constitution is a living document." This week's cover article by managing editor Richard Stengel is a freak show of anti-Constitutional babble including an assertion that the Constitution was not intended to limit government: "If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesn’t say so...The truth is, the Constitution massively strengthened the central government of the U.S. for the simple reason that it established one where none had existed before."

[lowbridge]

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

[politicalmerc]

Wow, what ignorance.

[Biggirl]

Surprised that the First Lady has not targeted them both to tell them, “eat veggies” and “excercise”. SARC.

[Texas resident]

What collosal ignorance from an industry that is protected by the 1st ammendment.
Guess they are ok with being run by the govt like Pravda.

[Vaduz]

Leftist tripe on the move and losing ground.No Constitution no country you end up like the middle east and we know how well that works out.

[Covenantor]

The LSM just keeps handing us ammo!

[AlexW]

Anyone that reads, or even worse, subscribes to Slime
is obviously a hopeless Marxist.
To those people, anything the party says is the constitution
for the day.

[Uncle Ike]

” Anyone that reads,[......] Slime
is obviously a hopeless Marxist. “

Or else, he/she is stuck in a dentist’s waiting room.....

[driftdiver]

I guess its good nobody reads this rag anymore.

[DeaconRed]

TIME

Your time is UP - Sound of buzzer going OFF.

[PORD]

“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.’ To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson, 1791

[lowbridge]

“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.’ To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson, 1791

Yeah, but what does he know? /Time Editors

[all the best]

A “living” document?! Imagine signing a “living” document contract. Means anything that the other party says it means as time goes on. Sounds more like a dead document.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Risking the wrath of Sarah Palin, I’ll say it: Time is full of Constitutional retards.

[AlexW]

“Or else, he/she is stuck in a dentist’s waiting room”
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I assume that many magazines in waiting rooms are free
to the doctor’s office.
If I were the doctor, I would consign any leftist trash to the trash basket as soon as it arrived.
If I were a patient in a clinic that allowed it, I would find a new doctor.

[PORD]

1823 — letter to William Johnson by Thomas Jefferson

Category: Constitutional Interpretation

On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.

[exDemMom]

"If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesn’t say so..."

Of course it doesn't, if you don't bother to read it.

[Texas resident]

Guess they missed the part where it says “Congress shall make no law....”