Posted on 12/29/2021 5:18:44 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Nothing the Democrats have done was possible without the assistance of the GOP.
Neutering the natural born citizen clause was something BOTH parties wanted.
Natural born citizens are NATURALLY citizens because they are born here of citizen parents and have only ONE nationality.
BOTH parties wanted to run ineligible candidates.
Cruz, Jindal, Rubio, Haley and George P. Bush are all ineligible and were seen as the future of the party and why the GOP went along with the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
Even here on Free Republic many will argue that Anwar Al-Awlaki’s kids, born in Yemen to one citizen parent, are natural born citizens eligible to be President because they want Cruz to be eligible.
I always disagreed with the decision to not have teeth to enforce the Constitution. Death penalties mandatory in most cases, primarily as a deterrent.
The Constitution is working fine, the problem is its not being followed...
Roberts blew it in 2020 by allowing lower court judges rule that candidates had no standing in challenging election laws changed by state executive branches instead of the legislature. He had the chance to reassert the coequal powers of the judiciary and curtail the executive and passed on it.
Our founders cringed at powerful executive assumption of power. They knew how Kings made society unstable. Europe was at war forever because of kings. Hope that isn’t my granddaughters fate. Thank you John Roberts.
Fixed it
We need to make our other founding document, The Declaration of Independence, work like never before. It’s time. Way past time.
Ant-Constitution libs frequently, as this one does, bring up the fact that the Constitution was conceived in 1787 as a reason that it is no longer useful. In doing so, they demonstrate that they have no understanding of why there is a Constitution and its purpose.
The real purpose of the Constitution is an attempt to control the ambition of those who would enslave us. It is that simple.The Constitution is not about how many rounds are in your magazine nor how much noxious fumes your engine emits.
The Constitution is about the nature of man, which has changed very little, if any, since the beginning of mankind and our failure to understand that will be our downfall.
Because the people won’t accept Democrat policies, the Constitution needs to be re-written to force people to accept Democrat policies…
“Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) represent a new breed of legislators who seek recognition and are largely uninterested in passing actual laws”
A conservative’s role in government is to keep things the same. Vote no. A Democrat’s role is to change things. Progressively.
As a citizen if you are happy with the easy things are, you want a conservative
The idea is that Republican voted to keep America a “republic” while a Democrat wanted to move it to a democracy. This is achieved with the singular vote to eliminate the electoral college.
Author is a leftist. He can’t get over the idea that people are smart enough to know what they are doing. Leftists hate pele but they love their rulers and overlords. They’ve been trained to by very cunning means.
To you point, they both were willing, but the democRATS went there first.
Since 1861 the democRATS have been trying to destroy the constitution and the nation constructed by it.
The Constitution works when liberal idiots let it work.
You could beat a Formula 1 race car by walking backwards if the driver of the car doesn’t know how to operate it.
All but two of the current justices cannot read above a third grade level. If they could then Trump would still be president. But since he put three of them in there and blew such a massive opportunity I guess you can say the politicians we are electing are just as much to blame.
I do believe that the decay of the nuclear family has been aided by the Welfare State prompted, in part, by the availability of aid to women with children.
I also know that most women are perfectly capable of voting wisely but both sexes will vote out of wanton greed.
The teachers union is largely female and wields incredible power.
You lost the power of the purse in 1963 when payroll deductions for taking taxes became law, and some would argue that happened when income taxes were put in place.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other,” John Adams
Guess what. We have long ceased to be a moral and religious People. Is it any wonder that corruption, avarice, self-interest, thirst for power, and a push for communism has decimated the Constitution at present, and getting worse.
Queue the Alexander Fraser Tytler quote:
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”
How can you TRUST government when you see the Presidents son making millions simply because of our presidents influence.
Its not the constitution thats the problem, its the people.
I didn’t read the author’s drivel past a couple of paragraphs. But I bet he didn’t give the best argument against the Constitution. That would be John Adams’ statement that the Constitution was intended for a moral and religious people and is wholly unfit for any other.
It follows from that that the blue states and cities should either be kicked out of the Union, or be reduced to something like territorial status where they can do less damage to real Americans.
It's pretty hard for Bush and Trump to bring the country together when there was nothing but hate, hate, and more hate from the press, including The Hill.
See Tagline.
Exactly right, Palo.
The biggest challenge well-known to all framers of governments and constitutions the past 2,500 years is preventing the power-mad criminals from destroying the government and civilization.
Growing up in the Post WW II era, we thought order and liberty were the norm and could not be destroyed. President Reagan starkly told us the loss of liberty and freedom were only one generation away and we scoffed.
because they are not actually following the constitution anymore
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