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Constitution is Dead!
August 22, 2005
By Gordon Bishop
Thanks to a 20 th Century of rampant liberalism and socialism, America's U.S. Constitution is dead and buried.
The once great Constitutional Republic that our founders fought for during the American Revolution is a hollow shell of what this nation used to stand for: Liberty, Freedom, Opportunity for everyone.
Today, America is at the mercy of a Marxist U.S. Supreme Court, a Democrat party that hates America and flirts with Communism.
Thank God there's a luke-warm Republican in the White House who still believes in a "Republican Government," the foundation of our Constitution. NOT a “Democratic” government, but a Republic. Read our Constitution, folks! We’re becoming a nation of ignorant voters who have never read the Constitution or Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
Ultimately, America will implode because of ignorance on how and why this great Republic came into being 228 years ago.
My previous column dealt with the issue of our government now confiscating private property not for "public use," but for "purpose." In this case, "purpose" means that government can now take your property, without "just compensation," to upgrade a neighborhood to a higher value so government can collect even more taxes from you.
Here's what one of my readers, John Merritt Burns of North Aurora, Illinois, e-mailed me on the property rights issue:
A Disastrous, Historical Event On this date, June 23, 2005, a gravely disastrous and historical event happened to a nation. A nation of people who are known worldwide for their struggle to secure freedom and liberty for all. A nation of people who cared more about their country and the rights of their fellow man then their own self-sacrifices.
On 6/25/05 the Supreme Court of the United States of America ruled in a five-four vote to determine that public use was to interpreted as public purpose, advocating the confiscation of private property for community profit and in the abdication of their responsibility to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States of America and the intentions of its founders in its construction, holding true not to its found Republic, but to a form government reminiscent of the one it was enacted to replace, i.e., confederation of states, in which abuses of individual rights have no federally constitutionalized restraints.
Alexander Hamilton (America's first federal Treasurer) warned that one day the Amendments of the Constitution might be interpreted singularly, disregarding the Constitution in its entirety.
One of the restrictions chiefly placed within the Constitution is that of the limiting of aggressive acts in the taking of land owned by its citizens and was considered to be of paramount importance in its acceptance.
The removal of this restriction that was placed upon our government at its founding is an unprecedented act of aggression and is in complete violation of the federal Constitution and the trust of the American people.
The removal of this restriction will have dire consequences for us and our posterity.
I have found these interesting quotes and writings (on this property rights issue:
"If the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court…the people will have ceased to be their own rules." - Abraham Lincoln
"The additional securities to republican government, to liberty and to property, to be derived from the adoption of the plan under consideration (the Constitution), consist chiefly in the restraints which the preservation of the Union will impose on local factions and insurrections, and on the ambition of powerful individuals in single states, who may acquire credit and influence enough, from leaders and favorites, to become the despots of the people". -- Alexander Hamilton
These are now the questions every American must ask themselves.
Do we the people want the protections originally afforded us in the Federal Constitution, or shall we trust our fates to individual states and local governments?
Can there be liberty without the security of one's castle? Can there truly be freedom without domestic tranquility? Where can the concept of justice be found when others can take what you own? Where does the pursuit of happiness lie? Here do the hopes and dreams for our posterity reside? What is it if not these things that Americans fight and die for?
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