tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236695365244926782.post1387463566867801829..comments2023-09-16T03:06:44.703-07:00Comments on III Percent: III Congress PhilosophyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236695365244926782.post-47245797883356024122012-11-30T04:01:14.200-08:002012-11-30T04:01:14.200-08:00Hans: Your comment deserves a post. Please don...Hans: Your comment deserves a post. Please don't take it as a personal rebuke - your mistake is very, very common in America, by design of Bad People.<br /><br />KKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17465944474238091234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236695365244926782.post-81175464367772185182012-11-29T20:42:23.096-08:002012-11-29T20:42:23.096-08:00Sir, you make the claim: "The first ten Amend...Sir, you make the claim: "<i>The first ten Amendments are not open to the Amendment process of the Constitution.</i>"<br /><br />I believe that statement is incorrect. The body of the Constitution and all subsequent amendments are subject to modification by the amendment process.<br /><br />By way of specific example: consider the effect of the 14th Amendment upon the 10th Amendment. Powers not enumerated in the body of the Constitution, clearly reserved to the States by the 10th Amendment, are subsequently constrained / infringed / usurped by the 'nationalization of citizenship' and 'equal protection' language of the 14th Amendment.<br /><br />Best Regards,<br />Hans<br />(in the NC woods)<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236695365244926782.post-21180207199648659172012-11-29T20:24:09.438-08:002012-11-29T20:24:09.438-08:00I'll do this as a post later, but I would like...I'll do this as a post later, but I would like to recommend a book that I've read several times: "Our Politically Incorrect Founding Fathers".<br />If you want to learn about the Fathers, their intent and the Constitution, this is the book for you.wirecutterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12525620516837946733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236695365244926782.post-57605976643082316282012-11-29T17:30:04.714-08:002012-11-29T17:30:04.714-08:00this may sound corny or cliche' but a man'...this may sound corny or cliche' but a man's word ought to be his bond... a spoken Oath is the iteration of that intended bond... whether here in New England or in Idaho or East Nofreakinwhere, i would want to know that whomever has my 6 has made that commitment as i will have already done... in my mind, it's about demonstration of moral character... for me, it's a simple issue and if i may take a bit of liberty: Ps 107:2a "Let the redeemed of the LORD say so," 1Ch 16:36b "...And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD." the concept was taught and expected by our Lord... the Oath is necessary.<br />Prepping Preachernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236695365244926782.post-56367266221545669702012-11-29T15:57:52.204-08:002012-11-29T15:57:52.204-08:00And another honorable mention for the Mecklenburg ...And another honorable mention for the Mecklenburg Declaration, issued 20 May 1775 by delegates of the militia companies of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, assembled in response to events at Lexington and Concord:<br /><br />"<i>2. Resolved, That we the citizens of Mecklenburg County, do hereby dissolve the political bands which have connected us to the Mother Country, and hereby absolve ourselves from all allegiance to the British Crown, and abjure all political connection, contract, or association, with that Nation, who have wantonly trampled on our rights and liberties and inhumanly shed the innocent blood of American patriots at Lexington.<br /><br />3. Resolved, That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people, are, and of right ought to be, a sovereign and self-governing Association, under the control of no power other than that of our God and the General Government of the Congress; to the maintenance of which independence, we solemnly pledge to each other, our mutual cooperation, our lives, our fortunes, and our most sacred honor.</i>"<br /><br />[... regardless of the continuing debate over authenticity of the original text vs newspaper publications in the early 19th century ...] <br /><br />Best Regards,<br />Hans<br />(in the NC woods) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236695365244926782.post-20019138115415594772012-11-29T15:37:23.207-08:002012-11-29T15:37:23.207-08:00And maybe an honorable mention for the Declaration...And maybe an honorable mention for the Declaration passed July 6, 1775...<br /><br />"In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it; for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our forefathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before."Jim Kleinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236695365244926782.post-63060029379721048542012-11-29T15:06:42.123-08:002012-11-29T15:06:42.123-08:00Amen.Amen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236695365244926782.post-23609202164883891012012-11-29T13:45:48.186-08:002012-11-29T13:45:48.186-08:00It is a mistake to divorce the DoI from the Consti...It is a mistake to divorce the DoI from the Constitution/BoR. It takes all three to put everything into proper context. That is something which the power brokers and their media mouthpieces have worked hard to do, including the "CONNEDservative" shills like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly. <br /><br />"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."<br /><br />Damn straight.Mayberryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07664966137470121099noreply@blogger.com