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Forum Post: Preamble to the Constitution

Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 12, 2011, 9:04 p.m. EST by JeffBlock2012 (272)
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We, the people who inhabit the United States of America, wish to create a just society where every person has equal opportunity. Our diverse origin enriches our society and together we are responsible for the heritage of generations, our country and its history, nature, language and culture. The United States is a free and sovereign state with freedom, equality, democracy and human rights as its cornerstones. The government shall endeavour to strengthen the welfare of the country‘s inhabitants, encourage their culture and respect the diversity of the life of the people, the country and its biosphere. We wish to promote harmony, security and happiness amongst us and coming generations. We are determined to work towards peace with other nations and respect for the earth and all mankind.

In light thereof we set a new Constitution, the supreme law of the land that all must observe.

If you just change United States to Iceland, you've just read their 2011 citizen written preamble to their Constitution.

One real nice feature of their Constitution is it allows for a national referendum on any law passed by their Parliament with only 10% of their citizens asking for a national referendum - now there's a "We the People" making sure government stays for "We the People" clause if there ever was one.

read the whole thing: http://stjornlagarad.is/other_files/stjornlagarad/Frumvarp-enska.pdf

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[-] 1 points by atki4564 (1259) from Lake Placid, FL 12 years ago

Yes, a new Constitution is needed as I have cited in my own link below, but we also need is a comprehensive strategy, and related candidate, that implements all our demands at the same time, and although I'm all in favor of taking down today's ineffective and inefficient Top 10% Management System of Business & Government, there's only one way to do it – by fighting bankers as bankers ourselves. Consequently, I have posted a 1-page Summary of the Strategic Legal Policies, Organizational Operating Structures, and Tactical Investment Procedures necessary to do this at:

http://getsatisfaction.com/americanselect/topics/on_strategic_legal_policy_organizational_operational_structures_tactical_investment_procedures

Join

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/StrategicInternationalSystems/

if you want to be 1 of 100,000 people needed to support a Presidential Candidate – such as myself – at AmericansElect.org in support of the above bank-focused platform.

[-] 1 points by RichardGates (1529) 12 years ago

dude, did you read that heading lmfao. slow down.

[-] 1 points by HankRearden (476) 12 years ago

Thomas Jefferson would puke.

[-] 1 points by thoreau42 (595) 12 years ago

The founding fathers would laugh at the general lack of understanding about government that our generation has.

[-] 1 points by HankRearden (476) 12 years ago

Laugh until they choked.

[-] 1 points by thoreau42 (595) 12 years ago

to death.

[-] 1 points by HankRearden (476) 12 years ago

Haha!

[-] 1 points by JeffBlock2012 (272) 12 years ago

funny only because I thought someone would reply that it's not too different from ours, especially the "promote the general Welfare" part. That seems to be the OWS general complaint, that the system is NOT promoting the general welfare of "We the People", isn't it?

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America

[-] 1 points by thoreau42 (595) 12 years ago

What does it mean to promote the general welfare?

"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions."

"With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."

-James Madison

Also, here's what George Washington says about changing the Constitution "Let there be no change [in the Constitution] by usurpation. For though this, in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed."

[-] 1 points by HankRearden (476) 12 years ago

Yeah, the camel's nose under the tent.

[-] 1 points by TIOUAISE (2526) 12 years ago

FA-BU-LOUS!!

God Bless Iceland!