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March 22, 2013 · By Publius Huldah · 0 Comments
Our own Ignorance is destroying us. Mark Twain wrote in his autobiography:
In religion and politics peoples beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
That is what has been going on in our Country for a very long time. Our intellectuals cant think; our scholars parrot each other; the self-educated fixate on idiotic theories; no one studies original source writings; and The People jump on every bandwagon that rolls by.
In order to write intelligently on our Constitution, one needs to have studied and understood the original source writings of our Framers. No matter what your educational level, if you dont know what is in our Declaration of Independence and federal Constitution; and if you are not familiar from personal study with The Federalist Papers, The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798, Madisons Report on the Virginia Resolutions (1799-1800), and Madisons Notes on Nullification (1834), among other original source writings, then you have no business writing about these issues.
But we are flooded with rubbish about the Constitution put out by law professors, history professors, Ph.Ds. of this or that, Heritage Foundation, those with no academic qualifications, and politicians. And none of them know what they are talking about!
And The People read their rubbish and believe it.
One of many such writings which plague us is the Balance of Powers Act (BOPA). 1
All of it here
http://www.americanclarion.com/1862...w-people-are-destroyed-for-lack-of-knowledge/
SNIP:
March 22, 2013 · By Publius Huldah · 0 Comments
Our own Ignorance is destroying us. Mark Twain wrote in his autobiography:
In religion and politics peoples beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
That is what has been going on in our Country for a very long time. Our intellectuals cant think; our scholars parrot each other; the self-educated fixate on idiotic theories; no one studies original source writings; and The People jump on every bandwagon that rolls by.
In order to write intelligently on our Constitution, one needs to have studied and understood the original source writings of our Framers. No matter what your educational level, if you dont know what is in our Declaration of Independence and federal Constitution; and if you are not familiar from personal study with The Federalist Papers, The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798, Madisons Report on the Virginia Resolutions (1799-1800), and Madisons Notes on Nullification (1834), among other original source writings, then you have no business writing about these issues.
But we are flooded with rubbish about the Constitution put out by law professors, history professors, Ph.Ds. of this or that, Heritage Foundation, those with no academic qualifications, and politicians. And none of them know what they are talking about!
And The People read their rubbish and believe it.
One of many such writings which plague us is the Balance of Powers Act (BOPA). 1
All of it here
http://www.americanclarion.com/1862...w-people-are-destroyed-for-lack-of-knowledge/
