Originally posted by STChas
reply to post by get ready already
To presume to be able to rewrite for clarity – or for any other reason – one of the two best examples of English prose ever written is cheeky at
best. The only reason to wish a rewriting of the Constitution is to change its “negative liberties” (strict limits on governmental intrusion into
the lives of Americans) into positive license for governmental intrusion, this is the hidden agenda of most who call for its revision.
The Constitution is not a ‘living’ document (A liberal’s wet dream), nor does it need to be revised, it needs to be STRICTLY adhered to without
liberal perversion of its articles to include whatever politically correct ‘right’ or ‘limit’ some Columbia Law graduate thinks it should
include. Applied at face value pre 16th Amendment, the Constitution would function exactly as it was designed.
SGT Chas and others,
Nothing wrong with the Constitution and its first Ten Amendments as they are written. The problem is with us ..we ourselves. We need to learn some
English as well as some history to accompany our English.
With these new tools will come the understanding of what is happening around us and has been since before FDR. Even back unto the Boxer Rebellion.
Agreed..the 16th Amendment would function exactly as designed. Not as a direct tax on the "Source." Someone here has really pulled a fast one on
Americans for over 60 years now. There is nothing wrong with the 16th Amendment as it is written...the problem is in its application.
Good that you know this STChas...most peoples do not. They haven't a clue. Public Education/television education once again.
I still stand by what I stated on page 2 of this thread...before embarking on such a road..
www.abovetopsecret.com...
The other amendment which greatly bothers me is the one which made Senators to be elected by the people of the states. Prior to this Amendment the
Senators to Washington D. C. were elected by the state legislatures. Thus these senators were looking out for the state interests in Washington D. C.
Represenatives to Washington D. C were to be elected by the people and by apportionment ....by population count. Some states because of population
having more represenatives than others...by apportionment.
Now that we have Senators to Washington D.C. elected by the people we now have two houses of representatives in Washington D. C. No one is looking
out for the state concerns. This is one way in which the power of the states over Washington D. C. was broken. No one is representing the state
interests in Washington D. C. as intended by the founders. This concept is not taught to our children in public schools for what it actually is. It is
glossed over if ever even discussed. I consider this to be very dangerous to individual liberty as well.
As I recall this was done with Amendment XVII in 1913 along with the income tax in Amendment XVI. This was also the year the Federal Reserve Act went
into effect. I find this very interesting and not accidental.
We have three acts here for which the groundwork was laid for a time down the road ...changing the manner in which our liberties were to be carried
out or more appropriately...restricted. All in 1913.
For Anonymous Avatar...I too think the dumbing down of the American People is not accidental but deliberate. If our children and further generations
are to know the Constitution, and other important concepts and ideas, it will be something we must instill in them for it is obvious that we cannot
count on our Public/Television educational system to do so. We must anchor them ourselves with the knowledge of this remarkable document.
getreadyalready,
The Constitution has been the victim of the Supreme Court and many, many interpretations. As such, it has lost its "plain language"
quality that it had when it was written.
When in history ..this kind of thing transpires over and over again ...what is happening is a private interpretation of this document for the purpsoes
of private benifit and against the very people for which this document was intended. For this reason of private interpretation is why Supreme and
Appellate Court appointments are so important and controversial. Social engineers/politicians always want to stack the courts with selected peoples so
as to grant powers and authority to do things not permitted by the governing documents. Usually with a view to getting votes to keep and maintain
power.
You are now rapidly back on the road to feudalism and divine right of kings. A royalty. The very system from which the founders intended to break
away. They did not approve of royalty or the Feudal systems which had made a train wreck of so much of history and nations. And these founders knew
history from the Greeks Persians, to Cicero...unto the English Civil war.
This diaspproval of Feudalism is one reason George Washington did not want to be called "your Highness " or any such title..but merely refered to
himself as "Mr President." These things too are not accidental. There is an important history behind them.
Oliver Cromwell himself was behind the beheading of King Charles 1st in 1649. Though reluctant at first...when eventually the decision was made
Cromwell put behind him any hesitation to refrain...and was fully decided and committed that it was the right thing to do for England.
This marks the first time in history that an ordinary people had ever killed a king. Now mind you ..kings had been killed by other royalty in plots,
assasinations, intrigues etc etc...but never unto this time by the ordinary citizenry.
Our founders knew well this history and one of the decisions made to break away from England was that when the King had broken the law...did a people
have a right and precedent to turn on thier king. Oliver Cromwell had settled that decision for our founders some 100 plus years before.
This knowledge and secret is one of the things our own government never wants us to know and why the English Civil War is not much taught to Americans
next to the importance of it to us and our founders.
The other important decision to come down the road...was of course ...what kind of just government were they to put in place of the Feudal system or
systems of which they historically knew.
With thier knowledge of history, philosophy, religion, and law/laws they produced a remarkable and yet very brief governing document. For they well
knew by their knowledge of history that a free people must have a government in chains ..bound such that this government could not interfere with the
day to day buisness of the people.
A "limited government" meant a free people.
This is the very opposite of what we see happening today. We are well back on our way to Feudalism. Back to Royalty.
For it is known by certain peoples that the very best governmet that men by pure logic and reason can devise...on thier own merits...is
tyranny....which is feudalism.
It takes more than pure logic and reason to be just, and honorable. For the Greeks and Romans were men of great logic and reason. And we know thier
history.
Beware of by what some would attempt to seduce and deceive you by pure reason and logic....Gnostic wise men....Mr Spock. For it is by the hand of
Gnostsic Wisemen that we are where we are today...rapidly on the way back to feudalism.
Bewarned!!!
Thanks,
Orangetom
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