American: Alpha To Omega

[PoliticalChic]

1. The Constitution is the essence of America. It is known as the law of the land. If it is generally ignored, or worse, blatantly reversed, as the Demorcrats have done, there is no America.


2. On this date.... June 21 1788 US Constitution comes into force when ratified by (what becomes) the 9th state: New Hampshire. But even with nine states, the new union could not succeed without the participation of the large states of Virginia (6/25/1788) and New York ( 7/26/1788) Virginia and New York, crucial because of their size and influence, narrowly approved it five days later. Rhode Island, on the other hand, waited until May 29, 1790, to take action, but by that time, the government was already operating under the Constitution.




3. It didn't take long for the Left/Progressives/Democrats to claim that their desires were more important.
Woodrow Wilson wrote in “The State,” 1889, that "Government does now whatever experience permits or the times demand." His writings attack the Constitution, and the ideas of natural and individual rights. Along with Frank J. Goodnow, they pioneered the concept of the ‘administrative state,’ which separated the administration of government from the limitations of constitutional government. "
American Progressivism

4.In July 5, 1935, in a letter to Representative Samuel B. Hill of Washington, the President manifested his contempt for the Constitution. Hill was chairman of the subcommittee studying the Guffey-Vinson bill to regulate the coal industry: the purpose of the legislation was to re-establish, for the coal industry, the NRA code system which the Supreme Court had unanimously declared unconstitutional. Roosevelt wrote: "I hope your committee will not permit doubts as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the legislation.

This was the same Roosevelt who had sworn an oath on his 300 year old family Bible, to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution," p. 65.




5. While the Constitlution expressly forbids any but a state legislature from altering the mode and method of national elections, Democrat states had their courts do exactly that.
“In Pennsylvania, the question was whether the state’s Supreme Court could override voting rules set by the state legislature. In North Carolina, the question was whether state election officials had the power to alter such voting rules.”
NYTimes




So we are left with the question.....are you an American.....



.......or a Democrat?

 

[DGS49]

Slight adjustment. The Constitution, as viewed in light of the Declaration of Independence, reflects the American concept of the role of Government vis a vis the population.

It is very disturbing that in today's culture, graduates of America's public high schools have almost no knowledge of the Constitution, and how it structures the relationship among the Federal government, the States, and the People. The Left has completely obliterated the import of the Tenth Amendment, and we are all poorer for that. If Congress took Article I and the Tenth Amendment seriously, the Federal budget would be balanced in a heartbeat, and about a quarter of all Americans would be wondering, "What just happened?"

 

[PoliticalChic]

Slight adjustment. The Constitution, as viewed in light of the Declaration of Independence, reflects the American concept of the role of Government vis a vis the population.

It is very disturbing that in today's culture, graduates of America's public high schools have almost no knowledge of the Constitution, and how it structures the relationship among the Federal government, the States, and the People. The Left has completely obliterated the import of the Tenth Amendment, and we are all poorer for that. If Congress took Article I and the Tenth Amendment seriously, the Federal budget would be balanced in a heartbeat, and about a quarter of all Americans would be wondering, "What just happened?"

Yup.

But, not to lose the import of the OP, we no longer function under the Constitution......we are under the thumb of the European Party, the Democrats.

 

[DGS49]

But you must admit, with the current Supreme Court, there is cause for optimism.

 

[Oddball]

Spooner was never more correct than now....

 

[PoliticalChic]

But you must admit, with the current Supreme Court, there is cause for optimism.

That's a really interesting statement.

1. I am not a fan of the Supreme Court, as is neither authorized in the Constitution, nor, as you are suggesting, content with simply reviewing laws against the text of the Constitution.

I do not want a political Supreme Court.




2.“If the framers—the authors and, most important, the ratifiers of the Constitution—had decided to grant the power, one would expect to see it, like the analogous presidential veto power, not only plainly stated but limited by giving conditions for its exercise and by making clear provision for Congress to have the last word. It appears that the framers mistakenly envisioned the power as involving merely the application of clear rules to disallow clear violations, something that in fact rarely occurs.” Professor Lino Graglia, https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/0817946020_1.pdf




3. A series of essays, written under the name ‘Brutus,’ warned of exactly the situation we find ourselves in today:

“…they have made the judges independent, in the fullest sense of the word. There is no power above them, to controul any of their decisions. There is no authority that can remove them, and they cannot be controuled by the laws of the legislature. In short, they are independent of the people, of the legislature, and of every power under heaven. Men placed in this situation will generally soon feel themselves independent of heaven itself.”
Brutus, March 20, 1788
http://www.constitution.org/afp/brutus15.htm



I liked this book:

 

[PoliticalChic]

1. The Constitution is the essence of America. It is known as the law of the land. If it is generally ignored, or worse, blatantly reversed, as the Demorcrats have done, there is no America.


2. On this date.... June 21 1788 US Constitution comes into force when ratified by (what becomes) the 9th state: New Hampshire. But even with nine states, the new union could not succeed without the participation of the large states of Virginia (6/25/1788) and New York ( 7/26/1788) Virginia and New York, crucial because of their size and influence, narrowly approved it five days later. Rhode Island, on the other hand, waited until May 29, 1790, to take action, but by that time, the government was already operating under the Constitution.




3. It didn't take long for the Left/Progressives/Democrats to claim that their desires were more important.
Woodrow Wilson wrote in “The State,” 1889, that "Government does now whatever experience permits or the times demand." His writings attack the Constitution, and the ideas of natural and individual rights. Along with Frank J. Goodnow, they pioneered the concept of the ‘administrative state,’ which separated the administration of government from the limitations of constitutional government. "
American Progressivism

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4.In July 5, 1935, in a letter to Representative Samuel B. Hill of Washington, the President manifested his contempt for the Constitution. Hill was chairman of the subcommittee studying the Guffey-Vinson bill to regulate the coal industry: the purpose of the legislation was to re-establish, for the coal industry, the NRA code system which the Supreme Court had unanimously declared unconstitutional. Roosevelt wrote: "I hope your committee will not permit doubts as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the legislation.

This was the same Roosevelt who had sworn an oath on his 300 year old family Bible, to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution," p. 65.




5. While the Constitlution expressly forbids any but a state legislature from altering the mode and method of national elections, Democrat states had their courts do exactly that.
“In Pennsylvania, the question was whether the state’s Supreme Court could override voting rules set by the state legislature. In North Carolina, the question was whether state election officials had the power to alter such voting rules.”
NYTimes




So we are left with the question.....are you an American.....



.......or a Democrat?

While the OP indicts the Democrats as ignoring and reversing the Constitution.....censorship as an example, stealing the election, another........


.....they are regularly invoved with a hobby not prohibited specifically by the Constitution.



On this date, in 1964 Three civil rights volunteers for CORE, (Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner) were murdered in Mississippi by Democrats.

Murder in Mississippi | American Experience - WGBH | PBS



To be fair, a Democrat judge sentenced those Democrats who were found guilty....


"The trial was presided over by an ardent segregationist, U.S. District Judge William Cox, [Nominated Judge by JFK, Democrat]....
....Judge Cox sentenced the men to prison terms ranging from three to 10 years. After sentencing, he said, “They killed one ******, one Jew, and a white man. I gave them what I thought they deserved.” None of the convicted men served more than six years behind bars."
Slain civil rights workers found - Aug 04, 1964 - HISTORY.com



"Cox initially dismissed the indictments on all but two of those charged on the grounds that they were not government officials and therefore could not be charged with acting "under color of law."
On appeal, Cox's action was reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1966; Cox then presided over a trial that convicted some of those charged. He issued three to ten year sentences for the convictions of first- and second-degree murder.

Cox said of his sentences, "They killed one ******, one Jew, and a white man. I gave them all what I thought they deserved."[4] Goodman and Schwerner were both Jewish."
William Harold Cox - Wikipedia





Did I mention that the Democrat Party has always been the party of slavery, segregation, and second-class citizenship?

 

[PoliticalChic]

6. " It Is Not the Supreme Court’s Job to Follow ‘Majority Public Opinion’
It gets tiring having to point this out, but here goes nothing.

At CNN today, Stephen Collinson writes:

A tense national mood is likely to be exacerbated if, in what would be twin triumphs for conservatives, the Supreme Court rules against majority public opinion and loosens gun restrictions and overturns a woman’s right to an abortion in the coming days. Already, a man has been charged with trying to kill conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh, reflecting the charged atmosphere surrounding the court and the politicized issues it’s set to rule on.

The Supreme Court is a court, and its job is to uphold the law — whether statutory or constitutional — as it actually exists. The wishes of “majority public opinion” — or of would-be political assassins — are irrelevant to this endeavor. If a sufficient majority of Americans no longer like the law, they can use their democratic power to change its text. But, until they do so, that text will remain what it is, and the Court will be obliged to interpret it without fear, favor, contrivance, or reference to anything beyond its written terms."

Once Again: It Is Not the Supreme Court’s Job to Follow ‘Majority Public Opinion’ | National Review

The existence of formal institutions requires the use of formal institutions — yes, even in such cases as their application frustrates the majority.

www.nationalreview.com

It is rarely the case, certainly not since Democrat Roosevelt cowed the court, to do the job as stated above.