Comments on: News Flash: The Constitution is Dead

By: William Copeland

William Copeland — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:19:11 +0000

Entertain the MOB (football and beer) and you can do anything you want including destroy the greatest culture on the face of the whole earth…via Richard

By: Eric Owens

Eric Owens — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:19:10 +0000

Frankly, I don’t know about this living document thing and I haven’t read the book being referenced. I will say this, in terms of documentation control, any document that can be amended and those amendments tracked is a called a living document. Looking at the betrayal of our constitution, it isn’t that the constitution can be amended that’s the problem. It’s that the 3 branches see fit to ignore the need for amendments and have convinced most Americans that they aren’t needed that is the problem.

By: Eric Owens

Eric Owens — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:19:10 +0000

Ps. The document itself has to explain how changes are made.

By: Lynn Hardwicke Yowell

Lynn Hardwicke Yowell — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:19:09 +0000

This “living” Constitution theory garbage was being taught in my law school back in ’85.

By: Bonnie Long

Bonnie Long — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:19:09 +0000

Martha, I’m not 100% sure, but I think Richard was being sarcastic.

By: Martha Grinnan

Martha Grinnan — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:19:08 +0000

@Richard Robinson … Our Constitution is being violated every day by the courts and a certain segment of our Fed Govt … Are you ok w/that? I hope you understand what the Constitution is and what it means to the freedom of each of us and to our country. So when you look in the mirror, all you see is football and beer. A lot of people have given their lives and limbs for the Constitution and your right to watch football and drink beer.

By: Sue Whitney

Sue Whitney — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:19:08 +0000

Psychiatry’s View on Education “â€¦through schools of the world we shall disseminate a new conception of government â€“ one that will embrace all of the collective activities of men; one that will postulate the need for scientific control and operation of economic activities in the interests of all people.”
Harold Rugg, student of psychology and a disciple of John Dewey

By: Steve McLaughlin

Steve McLaughlin — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:19:07 +0000

However, Americans need not be Soviet spies or Islamo-fascist terrorists to be domestic enemies of the U.S. Constitution. “As Kevin Gutzman, constitutional expert and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, has said, those who would give us a ‘living’ Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect us against the encroachments of government power.” Legislating from the bench by judges (or Supreme Court justices) substitues a tyrannical rule of men for the Rule of Law. Anyone who would do that is an enemy of the Constitution.

By: Steve McLaughlin

Steve McLaughlin — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:19:07 +0000

Enemies of the U.S. Constitution (foreign and domestic) should be fought (or at very least, resisted) by any means necessary. That sounds harsh, and it can be when we’re talking about American Al Qaeda in Yemen (for instance). But in the case of judges and Supreme Court justices, it requires U.S. citizens to do this: vote for presidential candidates that promise to nominate jurists who reject the “living” (dead) Constitution philosophy and whose public record appears to be in accord with that approach; and for senate candidates whom you trust will not block such nominees. Do not vote people into office who, when asked about the constitutionality of the legislation they’re pushing, respond “Are you kidding?” (like Nancy Pelosi said in re. to Obamacare).

By: Steve McLaughlin

Steve McLaughlin — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:19:06 +0000

Most U.S. citizens –veterans included, I’m afraid– are reluctant to admit that there’s such a thing as a domestic enemy of the U.S. Constitution.