If you don't like the constitution the way it is then you should get out of the country. right?
2006-06-27 11:01:31 · 8 answers · asked by The Angry Stick Man 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
After reading these answers, I recomend ALL of you read the Constitution. None of you have shown much knowledge of the text. BTW neither the Constitution or the Bill of Rights uses the phrase 'Separation of Church and State' or the word Church for that matter. "Congress shall pass no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" How many people remember the second part of that sentence?
2006-06-27 11:46:03 · answer #1 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What ? The Constitution is basically a Conservative document. The Bill of Rights protects the people from the potential abuses of their Government.. It also by having a republican form of government protects the minority from the potential abuses of the majority.The whole system of checks and balances is designed to put the brakes on potential tyrants. The legal and peaceful remedy for such tyrants is impeachment. Limiting the power of government is a basic tenet of conservatism.
I think we need a new word for the radicalized right wing religious crazies posing as Conservatives . They are not
StevenF
From a very narrow point of semantics you are right. Nowhere in the text does it actually say Seperation of Church and State . But there should be no mistaking the intention. Not establishing an official state religion allows the free excersise of all religions. The only way that freedom of religion is even remotley possible is if you have freedom from religion.
2006-06-27 18:35:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the Constitution is too conservative for liberals. Through the use of liberal lawyers, the left has been changing the founding father's views and distorting them any way they can. For example, the First Amendment that talks about separation of Church and State was meant to exclude one type of Church for example the Baptists or Roman Catholics from controlling the State. It was not meant to be used to persecute any Religion the way that Liberals do today. The United States was founded on the belief that the Majority ruled and that the Minority was protected from abuse. This does not mean that one atheist could stop school pray at a High School if the rest of the people had no objections to it. Also, the Bill of Rights gives all legal citizens the right to bear arms. The left tends to ignore this one.
2006-06-27 18:14:11 · answer #3 · answered by andy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Constitution is way to liberal for "royalists". Unfortunately, the neocons (not all conservatives) are looking more and more like royalists, wanting the presidency and the federal government to be changed into a one-party monopoly on power, similar to the monarchies that many people came to America to escape.
2006-06-27 18:08:37 · answer #4 · answered by Dave of the Hill People 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I would agree with your thought, but based on the constitution I have the right to not agree with the constitution (as crazy as it may sound), So Conserving the liberties of the constitution is our right.
2006-06-27 18:07:33 · answer #5 · answered by Joe G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely. Especially the Bill of Rights.
2006-06-27 18:05:41 · answer #6 · answered by frugernity 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bill of Rights - oh yeah Conservative idea....
2006-06-27 18:51:59 · answer #7 · answered by aliunt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's those d*mn hippie forefathers of America... and their "freedoms"... it would be so much easier for Bush to fight terror if they hadn't screwed everything up... hahaha
2006-06-27 18:12:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋