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Write A Constitution

lefty louie said:
There is no question that I lean right, but if we don't include arguments from the left where would we be? Part of what makes this thing of ours work is balance. Could you picture us if only right wing ideas were law, if you can't you're part of the problem.

Just as all left wing laws would be insane, so is it for the right.,
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To lefty louie: Interesting message. Allow me to elaborate a bit.

Including arguments is okay, but nobody should have to listen to opinions they disagree with. That is not the same as silencing opposing views as the Left does. There are more than enough platforms in this country for everybody to be heard without forcing anyone to listen.

There is a lot to be said about balance, but in my old age I have come to believe that the U.S. is more of a pendulum than it is a balance scale.
 
Flanders said:
This is a terrific article. I will not include excerpts in the hope a few will read it:

Infallibility of our own version of Law unto ourselves and imposed on others?
By William R. Mann
May 9, 2018

https://canadafreepress.com/article...on-of-law-unto-ourselves-and-imposed-on-other​

Knowing about the Constitution and our Founders only goes so far. Perhaps better understanding will come by looking at the events and people the Founding Fathers could not have seen coming:

1. The United Nations.

2. Television.

3. The XVI Amendment.

4. The democracy movement financed by the XVI Amendment.

5. The Welfare State.

6. Open-Borders.

7. The education industry.

8. Woodrow Wilson.

9. William Jefferson Clinton.

10. Barack Obama.

EXERCISE: Write the U.S. Constitution the way the Founders would have written it had they known what was coming.

Conservatives are free to add to my list.

I cannot stop liberals from responding. I already know what they will say. So I should offer them a chance not to waste their time. There is not a thing they can say that I have not heard and debunked hundreds of times in the 18 years I have been posting on message boards. In any event a lib constitution will be a copy the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights with taxation authority added.
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It would probably be exactly the same, with the exceptions of strengthening article 1, section 8 regarding lawful spending, add limitations to clause 18 and adding an article dealing with the judicial branches powers. Other than that, this is a perfect, ageless document. Oh...I would add term limits for congress...and never would have added the 17th amendment.
 
Lutherf said:
The problem today is that if you want someone to read and understand the Constitution you need to write it in 140 characters or less and post it from a Twitter account with at least a million followers.
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That's why we call twitter users Twits. (Soon to be traded marked.) :mrgreen:
 
Flanders said:
This is a terrific article. I will not include excerpts in the hope a few will read it:

Infallibility of our own version of Law unto ourselves and imposed on others?
By William R. Mann
May 9, 2018

https://canadafreepress.com/article...on-of-law-unto-ourselves-and-imposed-on-other​

Knowing about the Constitution and our Founders only goes so far. Perhaps better understanding will come by looking at the events and people the Founding Fathers could not have seen coming:

1. The United Nations.

2. Television.

3. The XVI Amendment.

4. The democracy movement financed by the XVI Amendment.

5. The Welfare State.

6. Open-Borders.

7. The education industry.

8. Woodrow Wilson.

9. William Jefferson Clinton.

10. Barack Obama.

EXERCISE: Write the U.S. Constitution the way the Founders would have written it had they known what was coming.

Conservatives are free to add to my list.

I cannot stop liberals from responding. I already know what they will say. So I should offer them a chance not to waste their time. There is not a thing they can say that I have not heard and debunked hundreds of times in the 18 years I have been posting on message boards. In any event a lib constitution will be a copy the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights with taxation authority added.
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As a first proposal, a third Congressional house responsible only for repealing existing legislation. Majority repeal votes only on legislation, not treaties. This will end a lot of the phony maneuvering on bills where votes are brokered or calculated.
 
Flanders said:
To lefty louie: Interesting message. Allow me to elaborate a bit.

Including arguments is okay, but nobody should have to listen to opinions they disagree with. That is not the same as silencing opposing views as the Left does. There are more than enough platforms in this country for everybody to be heard without forcing anyone to listen.

There is a lot to be said about balance, but in my old age I have come to believe that the U.S. is more of a pendulum than it is a balance scale.
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Ahh, but that pendulum swings both ways, and in the end adding balance.
 
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