I am sad to say but I believe we now live in a
post Constitutional age in America. It is Post Constitutional and Pre
Dictatorship. I am a student of history. I like to think of myself as an
historian. I have a massive library that I have assembled
going back 35 plus years. I have studied history in college in the
undergraduate and graduate levels and I listen on a regular basis to all
the top history professors of the nation by audio and video CD's and
DVD's. I observe the news. I like to look at the newspapers and the
cable news programs. I try to look at all of them and survey all. I
watch. I listen. I meditate on what I have seen.
My conclusion,
our Constitution is dead for all practical purposes. However, most in
the Nation do not see such. However, many do. More and more Americans
are waking up. But, is it too late? I believe what you are seeing now
has been planned by powerful people for a long time. The plan was a
gradual destruction of our Constitution and moving it first to Socialism
and then to Dictatorship. If such succeeds it will plunge America into
absolute destruction and economic ruin. We will be a 3rd world nation.
Gone will be the days of invention and innovation. Government will
control everything.
How did this happen? Well, that is a long
and complicated study. Books will one day be written on how America
declined and lost its freedoms. For now, I pose these observations.
First, notice how no one any longer talks of an Amendment to our
Constitution. We have a Constitution. It is to be honored and respected
and obeyed. The courts and even the Supreme Court is bound by an Oath to
uphold that Constitution. However, more and more they make rulings that
the Constitution no where authorizes. If the Nation desires this and
that then they need to go through the Amendment process. You no longer
hear of any desire for an Amendment because as the government functions
now, there is no need for such. The last Amendment was added in 1992. It
was first introduced in 1789. So, the great issues of our present day
are not even being looked at as to an Amendment. Amazing!
The
last Amendment is the 27th Amendment that basically says that Congress
cannot raise its pay while in office but any future pay increases will
take effect in the next elected Congress. That is it. The U.S.
Constitution does not authorize abortion but the Supreme Court said it
did. If we wanted such we should have gone for an Amendment. The court
created the authority for such out of thin air and got by with it. Those
that voted for such violated their oath of office and should have been
immediately impeached and removed. The high court recently supported
Obama Care. Again, the congress said that forcing Americans to buy
health care was no tax. The court understood that such would be and is
unconstitutional and thus it would have to be struck down. However, the
court decided to redefine the Obama Care law and declared it a tax and
thus authorized it. Again, those voting for such violated their oath of
office and should have immediately been impeached. Now, the high court
has ruled that gay marriage is to be the law of the land. In two rulings
yesterday they set the stage. How could anyone believe that our beloved
Constitution ever sanctioned gay marriage. If you want such then you
must have an amendment to the Constitution. The high court ignored such
and ruled and made the Constitution fit the situation. At least they
should have allowed the states to make such decisions seeing how
marriage and family law is governed by each state. On and on we could
go. More and more rulings that have no Constitutional basis. More and
more the law of our Constitution is being usurped and trampled upon.
Even now the rights of Americans are being removed. Often the people
vote in majority on an issue and Courts throw it out. More and more they
throw out the elected will of the citizens.
I saw yesterday a
gay activist declare that she hoped the members of the high court that
voted no to gay marriage would have a change of mind and realizing the
changing climate in America. What!!!!! The high court is to review the
Constitution and make rulings on what is stated and not based on the
mood of the nation. Amazing. Absolutely amazing! We have lost it. We
have lost it big time.
We do not need an Amendment to the
Constitution, any amendment because the courts and the legislative and
the executive branches of government do whatever they wish and find some
legal standing to justify it and make it fit the Constitution. The
Commerce clause of our beloved Constitution has been used to justify
every overreaching power of government.
Another observation is
this. I believe our present Constitution is ineffective in holding back
tyrannical government. When the Constitution was set up originally we
had just four cabinet posts. They were State, Treasury, War, and
Justice. Now, we have 15 cabinet posts. Government has become so big and
especially the executive branch that it is impossible to regulate
itself. The Constitution originally set up a great system of checks and
balances. With the executive having only 4 cabinets posts it worked
rather well. Today, the executive branch has 2,756,000 employees.
Massive. The legislative and judicial branches have 64,000 employees.
Checks and balances are impossible to maintain with such power and
intimidation and especially in the executive branch. The present
Constitution was never designed for such an enormous government. We are
in trouble, big trouble.
Another significant issue that
has contributed to the breakdown of our Constitution is the loss of
power by the States. When our Constitution was set up the balance of
powers was strong in State Rights. After the Civil War the States lots
significant power and influence to check the Federal powers. As a
result the Federal Government grew and grew and with it massive debts.
The States where powerless to stop the overreaching power of the
Federal Government. More and more courts gave the Federal Government
power and took away power from the States. Thus, the Constitution as
it was originally designed was broken and checks and balances so sacred
to the original framers of our beloved Constitution was eliminated.
This paved the way for enormous Federal power to the extent that it has
taken away many freedoms of Americans.
What should happen? I
would propose the impeachment of many in high government based on their
violation of the Constitution. Men and women who violate their oath of
office must be held accountable. Second, I would propose a new Amendment
to the Constitution that would be called, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
REORGANIZATION, POWER DEFINITIONS, AND BUDGET AUTHORITY AMENDMENT. It
would be the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It would close
down the following cabinet positions in the executive branch and restore
their authority and work to the individual states. The cabinet posts
closed would be education, health and human services, housing and urban
development, labor, transportation, energy, and agriculture. This would
leave only Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, State, Treasury,
Veterans Affairs, and the Attorney General. In addition the Amendment
would significantly curtail the scope and power of each of these
agencies returning to the States as much power and direction as
possible. You see, our beloved Constitution envisioned the States being a
sort of check for the Federal government. The States no longer can be a
check for all their authority has been gutted. Under Commerce you could
have a Agriculture division, Housing and Urban Development, Interior
and Transportation. All with limited power and scope and working more in
cooperation and consultation with the States. The States would take
care of their own welfare systems and education. States would be
authorized to form National Organizations to look at transportation and
see what was best. In addition, this new 28th Amendment would demand a
balanced budget and take away from the Federal Government the power to
borrow. Only by a 2/3 vote of Congress and 2/3 vote of the States could
money be borrowed in the event of a National emergency and only then
under strict guidelines. Next, the Supreme Court and all other Federal
Courts would be reigned in and given only such authority as the
Constitution authorizes. Judges violating their oath would face
immediate removal from office, a trial would be held and if found guilty
removal from office permanently and prison. Congress would be able to
pass laws but no pork would be allowed. That is, a bill would be a bill.
Amendments unrelated to the law being considered would be illegal.
Furthermore, the regulatory powers of the Federal government would be
gutted and most removed from its authority. Severe prison terms would be
inflicted against all Federal employees found guilty of breaking the
Constitution and violating the freedoms of Americans.
All in
all this new 28th Amendment would severely limit the power of the
Federal Government and restore back to the States the power it was
originally given. It would bring back to the government a respect for
the Constitution and the freedoms of all Americans.
We are at
the 11th hour. Even now the traitors to our beloved Constitution are
working non stop to claim power. The task before us is daunting and the
freedoms of all Americans are at stake. Dictatorship looms before us.
Freedom once lost is hard, very hard to reclaim. God bless America and
the Constitution of the United States of America.
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