Why are the Democrats want to abandon the constitution ?

Question

Isn't it the best document we have available ? What will they replace it with ?

Answer 1

Made up rights such as "reproductive rights", ever expanding "hate-crime", "freedom from religion", "hate speech" and other made up rights as suits their liberal agenda of reducing individual rights and substituting them with a nanny state that is all knowing and all wise.

Answer 2

Bush has screwed the constitution like a 2.00 whore with a 1/2 price sale and your blaming the democrates?

1. Republican president
2. Until eariler the year a Republician Congress

If you cannot see the problem then WAKE UP!

Answer 3

Where in the hell are you getting your information?
It's the present administration
that has made a shambles
of our Constitution.
You have been listening too
much to Rush. Get another
point of view.

Answer 4

Bush isn't a Dem. He tossed the constitution years ago. Didn't you get the memo?

Gitmo
Warrant-less search and seizure wiretaps
Sign in statements into law
Cheney not being in the Executive Branch

Bush now has the authority to make laws, enforce his laws, and break laws. Bush is now the Legislator, the Jury, and the Executioner. So much for the Constitution.

Answer 5

You've somehow gotten your facts, as well as your grammar, incorrect. I'd suggest going back to school for the solution to both. Start in second grade for grammar, and reality 101 for political knowledge.

Answer 6

i realize that for the past 6 1/2 yrs it's been the neoCON propaganda strategy to accuse others of what you yourself are doing, a phony self righteous flaunting of blatant hypocrisy as a means of diverting attention from where the guilt truly lies ... but you should realize that no one is buying it anymore.

well ... no one but the congenitally stupid 29 Percenters

Answer 7

you have to be joking. this president has done more harm to freedoms and the Constitution than any other president. Lincoln did rescind Habeus Corpus, but it was done above board and after a full disclosure and agreement by Congress...with a sunset provision...there is no such agreement at this time, has no support from the opposition party, and is being done quietly and as secretive as possible (check out what Gonzales has said...

Answer 8

Interesting way to continue ignoring how Bush has violated his oath to preserve the Constitution. For Example:

I. FAILURE TO ENSURE THE LAWS ARE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED
Under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States of America, the President has a duty to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."
(1) Self-Exemption From Laws Upon Signing.
(2) Suspension of Basic Legal Proceedings.
(3) Promoting Illegal War
In direct violation of Articles 41 and 42 of the United Nations Charter, a treaty ratified by the United States Senate in 1945 and therefore the supreme law of the land as according to Article VI of the Constitution.
(4) Promoting Torture.
In direct violation of, and as part of a pattern of consistent attempts through executive orders, legal memoranda and alterations to regulations such as the Army Field Manual, to undermine the Federal Torture Statute [18 USC Sec. 2340A];
"The Third Geneva Convention banning torture and abuse of Prisoners of War, as well as non-combatants and unarmed ("enemy") combatants held in detention; and Articles 4 and 32 of the Fourth Geneva Convention... these declarations and treaties being ratified by the United States Senate and therefore the supreme law of the land as according to Article VI of the Constitution"
(5) Promoting Kidnappings and Renditions for Torture.
In direct violation of the United Nations Convention Against Torture, Article 3, and the Fourth Geneva Convention, Articles 31 and 45, the said conventions having been ratified by the United States Senate and therefore the supreme law of the land as according to Article VI of the Constitution.
(6) Use of Illegal Weapons.

II. ABUSE OF OFFICE AND OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE
(1) Obstructing Inquiry and Detection.
(2) Replacing the Veto With Signing Statements.

III. FAILURE TO PRESERVE, PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION
(1) Suspension of Due Process.
Violation of rights of habeas corpus and Fifth Amendment of the Bill of Rights
(2) Unreasonable Searches and Seizures.
Violation of Fifth Amendment of the Bill of Rights
-- Non-Cooperation with Congress:
In derogation of the legislative functions of the Congress, granted under Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution.
(3) Non-Cooperation With Congress.
(4) Establishment of an Unconstitutional, Parallel Legal System

Answer 9

Do you have any specifics to back up the ridiculous claim that democrats want to abandon the constitution?
I thought not.

Answer 10

Get real, religious and political conservatives have done more harm to the US Constitution than all of America’s outside enemies combined. Even Bin-laden himself could not have dreamed of taking away our personal rights and individual freedom to the degree the Bush Administration has.

How pathetic is it that conservatives think so little of the Constitution that they want to make it deal with non-issues like gay marriage and flag burning, while they oppose any amendment guaranteeing equal rights to all Americans?

The real threat to America (far more than a bunch of pissed-off Muslims) are those conservatives who want to re-write the US Constitution in an attempt to overturn America’s secular democratic republic so they can replace it with a theocratic-based fascist government based on the humanity– and America–hating doctrine of their sadistic Old Testament God.

There is not a single mention of God, Jesus, or Christianity anywhere in the US Constitution The issue was discussed and the Founding Fathers voted God out, intentionally. The democratic republic they created was the first 100% secular government in human history. The following was unanimously passed by the 1797 US Congress and signed into law by President John Adams:

•“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, …”

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796t.htm

However, beginning with this offering of a new Preamble for the Constitution in 1863 —

•“We, the People of the United States [recognizing the being and attributes of Almighty God, the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures, the law of God as the paramount rule, and Jesus, the Messiah, the Savior and Lord of all], in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

http://candst.tripod.com/chrsamnd.htm...

— Christian groups have made constant attempts to re-write and amend the Constitution to force their beliefs and lifestyle upon every American. They further insist upon teaching the folktales and mythological stories of the Old Testament in classrooms as legitimate science.

Even having a Congressional Chaplain is a violation of the ‘establishment’ language of the Constitution – but then, that is only the opinion of the men who wrote and signed the document.

James Madison (Father of the US Constitution) addressed the issue of Congressional Chaplains.

•“Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative."

•"The Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. The law appointing Chaplains establishes a religious worship for the national representatives… Does not this involve the principle of a national establishment, applicable to a provision for a religious worship for the Constituent as well as of the representative Body, approved by the majority, and conducted by Ministers of religion paid by the entire nation?”

•“The establishment of the chaplainship to Congs is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles: The tenets of the chaplains elected [by the majority shut the door of worship agst the members whose creeds & consciences forbid a participation in that of the majority. To say nothing of other sects, this is the case with that of Roman Catholics & Quakers who have always had members in one or both of the Legislative branches. Could a Catholic clergyman ever hope to be appointed a Chaplain! To say that his religious principles are obnoxious or that his sect is small, is to lift the evil at once and exhibit in its naked deformity the doctrine that religious truth is to be tested by numbers or that the major sects have a tight to govern the minor.”

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/...

And, how do you feel about Bush referring to the Constitution as, "just a g'damn piece of paper?

Answer 11

Where did you hear that? Because I'm a democrat, and I want to get back to the constitution. But that would require repealing the (republican created mind you)[Un]- Patriot-[ic] Act