Are we going to allow Presidents to keep enacting "Acts" that encroach on the guarantees within the constitution or doesn't it really matter in times of war?
Are Americans really willing to lose liberty or the possibility of it for supposed security?
If you really don't think this affects you ---Do you live in an area of the American heartland that the NAFTA superhighway will be built?
http://www.freedom.org/naugreen2/player.html
People in Texas are already going to public meetings to protest!
When will all of America realize that if it affects even 1 American it affects ALL Americans????
2007-02-27 03:31:20 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The Constitution is the immutable law of the land. It is not a flexible document open to interpretation, there are no emanations, penumbras or auras where new "rights" are magically found.
It is the contract whereby the people and the states' cede certain specific powers to the federal government, and only those powers. By amendment, the federal government is strictly prohibited from being able to act on things outside of its specified Constitutional powers, and it may not infringe on any of the inalienable God-given rights of the people detailed in the Bill of Rights.
I think, however, you are incorrect in your assessment of the Patriot Act or the Military Commissions Act and their impact on our rights.
And I worry about the complete lack of concern over the fact that nobody on the left seems upset that all the spending bills of the federal government that they have no Constitutional authority to legislate. Examples would be Social Security, Welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, education spending, HUD, HHS, pork-barrel projects, etc. They were never given the explicit power to spend the public treasury in this manner. Never forget that the power to spend, and thus the power to tax, is the power to destroy.
Or of the laws they pass that they have no Constitutional authority to be legislating. They do not have the power to legislate a minimum wage. Their abuse of the commerce clause is a direct assault on our rights and freedoms.
The saddest aspect is that the Democrats and liberals actually support and celebrate these attacks on our rights and freedoms. Yet, they get upset when the President doesn't accept the notion that a person has the right to private contact with our enemies in wartime. They do not understand the necessity of military tribunals for enemies. This is lamentable, and bodes ill for the future of America.
2007-02-27 03:55:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Basically Republican President Clinton promoted NAFTA
NAFTA allows business to close a factory say in Ohio. Move to Mexico and not have to pay import taffies on their junk they ship back to the US.
Even Better they can sub contract their junk to China and import through Mexico with a import tax free pass.
A Texas Banker told me once the secret to financial success is figuring out how to get a penny from everyone. Just how many bags of pennys do we have to give away?
Go big Red Go
2007-02-27 03:44:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You're absolutely correct, The Constitution of the US, IS the law of the land, and if you want to change a law -- well then you do it LEGALLY by drafting constitutional legislation and having it voted upon. Rule of law is what makes this country the BEST. Without it, we have only our wealth and power to separate us from the basest of dictatorships.
2007-02-27 03:37:24 · answer #3 · answered by CelticPixie 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lately the constitution is nothing but a political football.
I hear what you are saying, but the picture is bigger than that. Look at government grabbing land from land owners to build malls and parks, look at the department of education, look at shrinking gun rights. Or congress trying to dictate war tactics. The tax code! Members of the supreme court using foreign legal precedence.
If we allow politicians to bend the constitution for one little thing that sounds harmless, they will go hog wild--and have.
2007-02-27 03:36:18 · answer #4 · answered by Curt 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
The Constitution is the law of the land as far as I'm concerned and any and all attacks on the rights it guarantees should be punishable by law.
2007-02-27 03:38:25 · answer #5 · answered by . 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Judging by the events of the current administration, one might think it was merely a reference guide, if even that. The Constitution, however, is the law of the land. I can't even describe how much it means to this country...
2007-02-27 03:49:13 · answer #6 · answered by MishMash [I am not one of your fans] 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Consititution of the United States is absolute. Unfortunately, it can be misconstrued to any revocation of freedoms the politicians want.
2007-02-27 03:38:00 · answer #7 · answered by agave_1986 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The US Constitution is the law of the land, even if Dubya thinks it's just "a goddamned piece of paper".
2007-02-27 03:37:24 · answer #8 · answered by tangerine 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Didn't Bush say the Constitution was just a piece of paper?
2007-02-27 03:38:46 · answer #9 · answered by J 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
depends who you talk to. Many of us consider it the law of the land. To others, like George Bush, it is just a G** D*** piece of paper.
2007-02-27 03:38:37 · answer #10 · answered by truth seeker 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋