With all the underhanded, partisan, hidden and in some cases just plain illegal shenanigans going on in our nation's capital these days it's small wonder that such a high percentage of our fellow citizens are fed-up and mad. After the passing of the Obama health care "reform" and it looking very much like immigration "reform" is next up in the batting order for this president and his cohorts in the Congress, every citizen should be mad. These blatant and obvious tramplings of our constitutional rights on a regular basis should be more than enough to show every citizen that this administration and this Congress cares little if any about the opinions of "We the People". While all of these things have been happening we, the voters and citizens, have heard much from Fox News and the many conservative talk show host about this subject. If you were paying close attention you heard some lines like the following, "consent of the governed", "individual mandate", "Congress shall pass no law", "states rights" and "mis-representative form of government". All of these and more are direct references to our founding document and "The Law of the Land", our Constitution.
With this in mind, I and some of my friends, think every citizen of this country should know and understand exactly what the Constitution has to say about these things. We do not believe it is enough just to be mad, but that you should also know why you have the right to be mad. For this reason, we in the months from now until November will try to discuss the Constitution in such a way as to be understandable by everyone. By doing this we hope to help in some small way the uprising that will begin to take this country back from the politicians and give it over to the will of the people. We do have the right to throw the bums out. We will try to do our best in future articles to help you understand why our Constitution in still a living document and just as valid today as it was the first day it was penned. I would encourage you to get your own copy and read it for yourself and in the future you will know when your rights are being trampled by politicians who think they, and only they, know what is good and right for "We the People". Comments and questions welcome.
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Those of us who are older, remember having to learn our constitution in school. Then, we dropped the ball and forgot about it and how much we need it and what our responsibility is to that document.
ReplyDeleteEveryone needs to review what it means and why it is important to us and what we need to do to keep it.