Posted on 04/24/2013 6:01:18 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
The Constitution holds elites back from taking advantage of everyday citizens. It wasn’t written to protect the powerful - it was written to protect the people.
That’s why liberal elites hate the document...
This NPR guy fancies himself a ‘liberal elite’ - in his dreams.. The real Elites might not agree with his assessment...
It's Congress that has the trump card, loathe as they are to play it. But I guess impeachment because "they don't like a decision" would lead to an impasse and disintegration anyway. So "batten down the hatches Prince Arcturus!"
"No nation can ever be greater than the combined character, integrity and virtue of its leaders. Where are character, integrity and virtue today?" -- Anonymous
Liberals on the Government teat preaching the greatness of Obama, unions and Socialsm. So bright, so hip, so...so....progressive.
Barf
I suppose if you’re trying to explain the thing to small children, “It’s magic!” will do. But it isn’t, nor is the Constitution a miracle of collective faith. It is a plan for a constrained government, and it is the constraints even more than the plan that make it significant. A refusal to respect it will not result in it dying like an imaginary fairy, it will result in the loosening of the constraint that keeps government from our oppression and us from one another’s throats.
We must remind ourselves also that liberty relies on citizens who understand its essential ideas also.
May we, each and all, use the technology available to us to study the ideas which motivated the men and women of America's founding period to create such a clear statement of understanding of the Source of life, rights, liberty and law. Perhaps we may be able to influence and guide new generations into what Jefferson, in his First Inaugural, called "the only road that leads to peace, liberty and safety."
"Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness, as you confess those invaded by the Stamp Act to be. We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us, exist with us, and cannot be taken from us by any human power, without taking our lives. In short, they are founded on the immutable maxims of reason and justice." - John Dickinson (Signer of the Constitution of the U. S., as quoted in "Our Ageless Constitution," p. 286)
Unless today's citizens rediscover the ideas of liberty existing in what Jefferson called "the American mind" of 1776, we risk going back to the "Old World" ideas which preceded the "Miracle of America."
There are those who call themselves "progressives," when, in fact, their ideas are regressive and enslaving, and as old as the history of civilization.
Would suggest to any who wish an authentic history of the ideas underlying American's founding a visit to this web site, at which Richard Frothingham's outstanding 1872 "History of the Rise of the Republic of the United States" can be read on line.
This 600+-page history traces the ideas which gave birth to the American founding. Throughout, Richard Frothingham, the historian, develops the idea that it is "the Christian idea of man" which allowed the philosophy underlying the Declaration of Independence and Constitution to become a reality--an idea which recognizes the individual and the Source of his/her "Creator"-endowed life, liberty and law.
Is there any wonder that the enemies of freedom, the so-called "progressives," do not promote such authentic histories of America? Their philosophy puts something called "the state," or "global interests" as being superior to individuals and requires a political elitist group to decide what role individuals are to play.
In other words, they must turn the Founders' ideas upside-down in order to achieve a common mediocrity for individuals and power for themselves.
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court even can do much to help it." - Judge Learned Hand
Back on April 4, a FR thread was headed, "Obama: I am constrained by a system that the Founders put in place."
After decades of deliberate efforts by arrogant men and women to erode its principles and evade its "constraints," all the while calling themselves "progressives," even this President must reluctantly admit to its chains on coercive tyranny.
It was Jefferson who advised citizens to "Bind them down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
FTA: `...NPR’s highly entertaining “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,”’
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Right. The Mrs. used to listen to the car guys saturday mornings. One sat. she left npr on after the show. I walked into the room and heard a steady stream of bashing; repub. bashing, conservative bashing, christian bashing, and on and on.
Yeah, it was “highly entertaining.” *spit*
DEFUND NPR! NO TAX $!!!!
Bust a cap for the Constitution!
Keep the dream alive!
Haven't touched NPR for I don't know how long, but for my health and sanity, I had to stop listening to it all together.
The federal government has no constitutional authority over within-state marijuana matters. Nor over 90%+ of the other things they stick their noses in; I'm guessing he won't tell us that.
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