Any of you studied the Constitution?? Found interesting things

[Robert W]

Before the Bill of Rights, I noticed every one of the paragraphs operate to protect we citizens from Government.

The Bill of rights keeps this up until the 18th amendment when it tells citizens they can't consume liquor. Fortunately later a different Amendment killed that.

The 19th says Women have the right to vote. But the other parts of the constitution did not say women can't vote. Did you realize that?

The 20th puts limits on the president.
The 21st says go ahead and get drunk.
The 22nd limits the president to two terms.
The 23rd is so DC can vote
The 24th is against poll taxes
The 25th is if the president can't do the job
The 26th says if you are 18, you are able to vote
The 27th is about compensation to Congress

I wonder if you all know this? We hear all the time something is not constitutional

Can you show where that is true?

 

[Crepitus]

Before the Bill of Rights, I noticed every one of the paragraphs operate to protect we citizens from Government.

The Bill of rights keeps this up until the 18th amendment when it tells citizens they can't consume liquor. Fortunately later a different Amendment killed that.

The 19th says Women have the right to vote. But the other parts of the constitution did not say women can't vote. Did you realize that?

The 20th puts limits on the president.
The 21st says go ahead and get drunk.
The 22nd limits the president to two terms.
The 23rd is so DC can vote
The 24th is against poll taxes
The 25th is if the president can't do the job
The 26th says if you are 18, you are able to vote
The 27th is about compensation to Congress

I wonder if you all know this? We hear all the time something is not constitutional

Can you show where that is true?

Highly nonspecific question. What are you referring to?

 

[Robert W]

Highly nonspecific question. What are you referring to?

Read it again. I asked a question clearly.

 

[daveman]

“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

You want a quick tell, ask somebody who he believes the Constitution restrains -- the government, or the people. You will find out which group he belongs to.

 

[Robert W]

“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

You want a quick tell, ask somebody who he believes the Constitution restrains -- the government, or the people. You will find out which group he belongs to.

I agree with you far more than I agree with Heinlein. By the way, do you see this as a topic that does not belong in the Constitution heading? We got a party who moved it to this section for his personal reason.

Democrats want to do the controlling. Republicans want the constitution to be followed.

 

[daveman]

I agree with you far more than I agree with Heinlein. By the way, do you see this as a topic that does not belong in the Constitution heading? We got a party who moved it to this section for his personal reason.

Gee, a thread about COTUS doesn't belong in the COTUS forum? That's dumb as hell.

Democrats want to do the controlling. Republicans want the constitution to be followed.

Exactly.

 

[Crepitus]

Read it again. I asked a question clearly.

"something is not constitutional" is not a specific question, kid.

 

[S.S.]

Just remember this next time you hear someone tell you that you need a gov "permit." Gov does not permit anything. They can only restrict.

 

[whitehall]

Radical interpretation of the Bill of Rights notwithstanding it clear that the Founding Fathers thought freedom of speech and freedom of religion was so important that they addressed it in the 1st Amendment. You could make a case that the right to keep and bear arms was also equally important that was guaranteed by itself in Amendment#2