Happy Constitution Day!
Today is the day we commemorate our nation’s charter – the founding document which clearly defines our government’s purpose and (limited) powers. But how often do Americans read the Constitution?
Tomorrow, the great people at Constituting America and Let Freedom Ring have organized a nationwide event – We Read the Constitution. Americans will be gathering everywhere around the country to simply read the Constitution. If you visit their website, you can almost certainly find a reading somewhere near you. And if you can’t, it is not too late to organize one of your own!
So please go visit WeReadtheConstitution.com – and take this chance to show how important the Constitution still is to Americans.
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I think that our members of the U.S.House of Representatives and U.S.Senate, on a daily basis, should ‘Read and Study’ Our Constitution. Further, I Support/Encourage/Insist on ‘a Specific Citation of Constitutional Authority’for All Bills submitted. These people need to commit to Our Founding Principles.
The following from Justice Joseph Story (U.S. Supreme Court 1811 – 1845) is a principle that is most certainly not outdated!
“It [the Constitution] is to be interpreted, as all other solemn instruments are, by endeavoring to ascertain the true sense and meaning of all the terms and we are neither to narrow them, nor to enlarge them, by straining them from their just and natural import, for the purpose of adding to, or diminishing its powers, or bending them to any favorite theory or dogma of party. It is the language of the people, to be judged of according to common sense, and not by mere theoretical reasoning. It is not an instrument for the mere private interpretation of any particular men. The people have established it and spoken their will; and their will, thus promulgated is to be obeyed as the supreme law.”
I read tghe Constitution, many other documents from our history, all the way back to Locke documents and philosophy throughout history, which is why I believe Tea Party types, Libertarians, and most Republicans have it all SO wrong. I also think the far left wing of the Dems has it wrong as well.
Obama didn’t MAKE this mess, Bush/Rove styled people did. You can’t just deregulate everything then pretend it’s Constitutional. Government is needed to insure that there are not abuses to our freedoms and rights, and that we manage the resources of the government and nation we share.
I am a CONSERVATIVE VAPITALIST Democrat, who believes we need to go back on a commodity based currency, and force trade to be fair and stop sending our jobs overseas because a few of our most wealthy are selling cheap China made goods and making a bigger profit from it. Wal-Mart minded corporations and profit first and only minded companies are TRAITORS! The Moral Minimum school of thought is at least acceptable, but our Constitution found us making pledges and promnises to do right by each other, to secure the blessing of liberty by, in part, promoting the general welfare.
Obama is at least trying to rebuild our middle class.
A nation that makes nothing loses everything….
quote ME on that one.
It is a clear fact that the deficit grows under Republicans, and I agree we need to get back to our roots, but current Tea Party and republican agendas do not serve these ideals. They serve the interests of the money-changers, and the Bible and our founders warned us about that class.
I am a progressive, and the opposite of progressive is regressive. We need to move forward, a direction Fox News and Glen Wreck and Sarah Failing don’t understand.
Stop the lies, and get with the truth.