Forum Post: Does America Have a Constitution or Not ?!
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 14, 2011, 8:31 p.m. EST by reddy2
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The entire purpose of the Constitution is to RESTRAIN the federal government.
Both Democrats and Republicans regularly 'pretend' there is no Constitution in areas where they prefer not to be restrained.
WHY ISN'T THE CONSTITUTION LEGALIZED??
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Most of your elected have not honored their oath to OBEY and protect the Constitution. This is treason and all guilty should be impeached and ostracized or better imprisoned.
It is past time that 'we the people rise up to make that happen. You can place the full blame on the oligarchy of banksters and big corporate monopolies that bribe your representatives through their special interest payoffs, Both sides of the bribe are guilty and should be prosecuted.
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When Supreme Court judges elect to judge the Constitution, rather than the constitutionality of law, there is NO Constitution.
When the Federal government in Congress elects to use budget reconciliation to empower a Presiding Officer, at the recommendation of a committee, to circumvent a majority vote (as they have recently done with healthcare) there is NO Constitution. (And the only reason this has not been an issue is that the same process was used to pass the Bush tax cuts.)
The Constitution is no longer the fount that it was; we now serve at the pleasure of the King who rules by royal prerogative.
This is symbolism; the Constitution hangs as the coat of arms of the ancient House of Freedom.
That's our job, to restore constitutional government.
How about 0bama who goes around the Constitution by executive fiat?
Both parties ignore it all the time...especially when it gets in the way of an agenda. Ever since the New Deal Era the thing has been bastardized. We are in this mess because we no longer listen to what it means...we ask questions wondering what it means. We KNOW what it means!! It's not the davinci code...they wrote about what every part of it meant, even the semi colons and commas!! Federalist papers are the best source for what it means...not what FDR said. When the constitution is applied to all citizens correctly you instantly realize it is a dead document due to progressives and neo-cons. It is so sad that i have to explain to students what these supposed heros of govt have done to destroy it.
It does, but that constitution does not embody the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
It does not recognize the right to life and the rights that it does recognize can be limited in applicability by the supreme court. An excellent example of this is the restrictions which have been placed on freedom on speech; the creation of 'non-protected speech' or 'obscenity.' The category of obscenity is what allows the government to regulate (censor) speech which it does not approve of. The reason it is so important to explicitly recognize the right to life is because all other rights are derived from that right and from the requirements of the specific nature of human life.
The second main problem of the constitution is that it does not embody the principle that government exists to protect individual rights. While the protection of individual rights is sometimes considered in a judicial dispute, what can be found more often in supreme court rulings is the idea that government may limit or deny individual rights when 'significant/legitimate state interests' are concerned. If there were language in the constitution limiting the power of government explicitly to the protection of individual rights, the above idea would be a contradiction and our rights would be protected.
The constitution is followed by the politicians and the COURTS only when it agrees with whatever political fad is in fashion at that moment. It has been that way since the end of the Civil War.
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