PoliticalChic
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The Founders, Classical Liberals...or, what would be called conservatives, today, memorialized our birthright in the Constitution.
As impossible as is it for me to believe, the majority of Americans seem to have missed the fact that the liberty, the birthright of Americans, has been stolen.
1. Anxious citizens gathered outside the Constitutional Convention of 1787 (Independence Hall) when the proceedings ended in order to learn what had been produced behind closed doors. A Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” With no hesitation whatsoever, Benjamin Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
We couldn't
2. Don McLean explained it as well as anyone...
"Now the halftime air was sweet perfume
While the sergeants played a marching tune
We all got up to dance
Oh, but we never got the chance
'Cause the players tried to take the field
The marching band refused to yield
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died?"
3. You see, the German view of government took over, and the adherents of Hegel, known as Progressives, took control of the courts, specifically the Roosevelt Court, .....and counterfeited the law and the Constitution.
In short, Progressives Justices announced that the federal government could regulate any activity of any sort that it felt like regulating.
So much for 'limited constitutional government.
4. A few examples of freedom slipping away:
a. Nebbia v. New York,291 U.S. 502(1934) A little guy named Leo Nebbia, a shopkeeper, sold two quarts of milk and a five cent loaf of bread for eighteen cents. This, after New York's Milk Control Board had set a price of nine cents a quart for the milk!
" Nebbia argued that price controls were an unconstitutional interference with the freedom of contractincluded within theDue Process Clauseof the14thAmendment.... The US Supreme Court found that government can interfere withfreedom of contract only to serve a valid police purpose of protecting public health, public safety or public morals. In this case, the Court found that milk is essential to good health,..." Nebbia v. New York | The Law School Guys
"He was guilty of giving his customers a good deal, cutting into his own profit margin." Charles Murray, "By The People"
That was 1934.....who was the monarch...er, President?
The Contract Clause appears in the United States Constitution, Article I, section 10, clause 1. It states:
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. Contract Clause - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It doesn't say 'unless the government decides otherwise,' does it.
As impossible as is it for me to believe, the majority of Americans seem to have missed the fact that the liberty, the birthright of Americans, has been stolen.
1. Anxious citizens gathered outside the Constitutional Convention of 1787 (Independence Hall) when the proceedings ended in order to learn what had been produced behind closed doors. A Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” With no hesitation whatsoever, Benjamin Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
We couldn't
2. Don McLean explained it as well as anyone...
"Now the halftime air was sweet perfume
While the sergeants played a marching tune
We all got up to dance
Oh, but we never got the chance
'Cause the players tried to take the field
The marching band refused to yield
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died?"
3. You see, the German view of government took over, and the adherents of Hegel, known as Progressives, took control of the courts, specifically the Roosevelt Court, .....and counterfeited the law and the Constitution.
In short, Progressives Justices announced that the federal government could regulate any activity of any sort that it felt like regulating.
So much for 'limited constitutional government.
4. A few examples of freedom slipping away:
a. Nebbia v. New York,291 U.S. 502(1934) A little guy named Leo Nebbia, a shopkeeper, sold two quarts of milk and a five cent loaf of bread for eighteen cents. This, after New York's Milk Control Board had set a price of nine cents a quart for the milk!
" Nebbia argued that price controls were an unconstitutional interference with the freedom of contractincluded within theDue Process Clauseof the14thAmendment.... The US Supreme Court found that government can interfere withfreedom of contract only to serve a valid police purpose of protecting public health, public safety or public morals. In this case, the Court found that milk is essential to good health,..." Nebbia v. New York | The Law School Guys
"He was guilty of giving his customers a good deal, cutting into his own profit margin." Charles Murray, "By The People"
That was 1934.....who was the monarch...er, President?
The Contract Clause appears in the United States Constitution, Article I, section 10, clause 1. It states:
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. Contract Clause - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It doesn't say 'unless the government decides otherwise,' does it.
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