Why is there even a Constitution anymore?

Question

This powerfull document has been void for almost a century. Our rights have been stripped and our legal system has been codified into a system of "public Law" in which we are penlized for statutes(60 million of them) that we don't even know. Even Law students .

We are now in a form of 'Coup" with a president that we the people never voted in. This guy has us engaed in a war and he shouldn't even be in office. A child could understand that

Are we as Americans Blind, Punks, or have none of us ever really read our Constitution, which clearly puts this government in violation. I t has been in violation for almost 100 yrs now, when they begin to exchange real money with Promissary notes.

Answer 1

You certainly need to brush up on the US constitution, I think. The Constitution does NOT guarantee personal rights; it is a document that LIMITS what the federal government can and cannot do. The first 10 Amendments form what is commonly referred to as the Bill of Rights, but even they leave a lot in the hands of the individual states. Also note that there are a total of 27 Amendments - some of which repeal earlier amendments.

In particular, you should read the excerpt of Article 1, Section 8 I've appended below ... the government (i.e. Congress) has the right to decide EVERYTHING about the US currency, including how to print it and how to value it. And ANY duly appointed officer of the government (including the President) can declare war, if given the power to do so by Congress (which it did, or there wouldn't be troops anywhere outside the nation's borders).

ARTICLE I - Section 8
- The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
- To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
- To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
- To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
- To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
- To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
- To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
- To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
- To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
- To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
- To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
- To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
- To provide and maintain a Navy;
- To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
- To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
- To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
- To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And
- To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Answer 2

The size of your confusion is baffling.

You mention the Constitution in broad terms but don't refer to a particular section. Give us something concrete to think/talk about not random gibber-jabber.

Get over the election. Bush won move on with your life.

You state he got us in a war...that is the end of your thought. Okay true not a question, not an idea just a fact.

You state "have none of us ever really read our Constitution, which clearly puts this government in violation", of what section? Give us more oh wise one.

Ummm...Mr. Greenspan "real money" is a promissory note.

Also use spell check, you will at least look smarter.

Answer 3

You may be right about certain things, but the President WAS voted into office. Also, the National Debt stems from the Revolutionary War, so if that is the argument, then we never even had a government that was NOT in violation.
But I am no expert.

Answer 4

I too have been frustrated that we are not sticking by the Constitution any more, at least not the way that we should. Recently I was in a situation where I needed to ask about Due Process rights, and I was told that we have "substantive" due process. In a 4th Amendment search & seizure situation that I knew was unconstitutional, I was told that state law says that that person could do it, and that state law supersedes the Constitution!

Perhaps we now have a promissory legal system?

Answer 5

So true and it is only going to get worse. They make it look like they are passing laws for our own good. They make it sound like they are going ahead with the chip implants for our own good. People think you are crazy if you say it shouldn't be up to the government to dictate to us what is for our own good. They think you are crazy when you tell them the ultimate reason for the chip implants and the GPS. So they all sit back letting it happen. Today it is non smoking and transfats laws, tomorrow it will be you aren't allowed to feed your kid McDonalds if he is over weight.

They have been trying to pass a law where restuarants will not be allowed to let you take left over your food home because it might contribute to you over eating. Right now they are passing laws that restuarants allow people to take unfinished wine home, but once the other is passed that will be reversed.

Answer 6

shut up. the constitution stands always. it was the foundig principle of this nation, and it is enforced everyday. learn what your talking about