Comments on: James Madison and the Making of America

By: Mark Kenyon

Mark Kenyon — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:26:25 +0000

Meant to say look what’s happening now with a closed Constitution

By: Mark Kenyon

Mark Kenyon — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:26:24 +0000

I agree with Don S. With what’s in the White House now, something would be created. Something bad. Something that no true American would like. The Constitution has not been opened up for changes, and look what’s happening with s closed Constitution.

By: Harold Thomas Leonard III

Harold Thomas Leonard III — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:26:23 +0000

Spooner would disagree – what emerged from the convention was a piece of paper.

By: Don Schiller

Don Schiller — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:26:23 +0000

We are not a Republic anymore because of the War of Northern Aggression. Lincoln changed us into a democracy and a Constitutional Convention WOULD be dangerous to our country. It would be too easy to go off the deep end and create something other than what this country was founded as…a Republic.

By: Ray Zehrung

Ray Zehrung — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:26:22 +0000

Tenth is right. The country is already not a constitutional republic, as founded. It is a so-called democracy. As history has shown, all democracies eventually turn fascist. We are well on our way to fascism. Anyone who has not seen the Naomi Wolfe video of the ten steps to fascism should Google it and watch. Scary and real.

By: Ray Zehrung

Ray Zehrung — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:26:21 +0000

Sorry, well regulated militia.

By: Tenth Amendment Center

Tenth Amendment Center — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:26:21 +0000

Jason Christensen Candidate – Tom Woods has a Harvard education, but you liked that, no? And to claim that the country “will” be destroyed is ignoring the absolute fact that such a thing has already happened.

By: Ray Zehrung

Ray Zehrung — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:26:20 +0000

Jason, a Constitutional Convention is what the founders envisioned. Actually, we really do need one. We need to use the founder’s wisdom to reign in the federal government and their excesses. Take the 2nd Amendment as an example. When written, it was obvious to all that the beginning part “A well organized militia being necessary to the maintenance of a free state,” was seen as a declaratory statement. However, in modern times, many people have said this means that only a well regulated militia should have arms. The progressives go so far as to state that this means only the state and national guard qualify as “well regulated”. They all forget the actual meaning of the 2nd, which is “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”. I could see a tune up of this Amendment, or an ancillary amendment that would say something like this “In regards to the 2nd Amendment, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, regardless of whether such people belong to an organized or well regulated militia”. This would clarify the right to bear arms by ALL citizens, and ALL arms. The intent was for citizens to be able to have arms EQUAL to what the government possessed, since one of the primary reasons for this amendment was to ensure that a tyrannical government could not usurp power without being taken to task by armed citizens. So…my two cents.

By: Steven Wilcox

Steven Wilcox — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:26:19 +0000

Human nature then, is the same human nature now. We just have more expedient means to access our vices.

By: Don Schiller

Don Schiller — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:26:18 +0000

If we as a country truly got back to Federalism then alot of our problems would be solved.