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Spdrxb
| | Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 - 05:50 am: | 
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Thank you Blake
I tried that several times within minutes of posting, it didn't work so I just made it blank.
(Message edited by spdrxb on January 08, 2011) |
Blake
| | Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 - 06:04 am: |
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Gotta then click "delete post" not the little x again. |
Scooter808484
| | Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 - 12:46 pm: |
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How'd you guys feel about them leaving parts out they found offensive?
If the implication of reading it was that the Constitution should only be applied as the Founders intended, and for many, I'm sure that was the intended implication, then the censorship is entirely dishonest. The Founder's were no more infallible than anyone else, they were just smart enough to know it and make arrangements for correction of their fallibility. Too bad many in politics today don't share the same humility. |
Court
| | Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 - 02:15 pm: |
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>>>But then the reading is just politics so I shouldn't expect much.
I agree. This was largely "stunt reading".
It would be nice if folks, when elected to Congress, got a week long session in civics.
It's fine to bring your personal political views and ideology . . it's not fine . . under the ridiculous "it's an evolving" document logic . . to morph the Constitution to say what you want.
I fear that until we restore some values and character to the way we run our country we're stuck in this mire. |
Court
| | Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 - 02:17 pm: |
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By the way . . leaving out the portion of the Constitution about African-Americans was, in my mind, a terrible insult to all races.
By burying one's head in ideological sand you deny all future generations the benefit of lessons collectively learned from our communal stupid mistakes and how we learned and dealt with these things. |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Saturday, January 08, 2011 - 05:21 pm: |
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Court has convinced me. They should read it again, all of it. The parts that were fixed should be part of the whole, since without knowing history, you are doomed.
The Magna Carta has sections ( almost all of it ) that don't apply anymore. Barons no longer collect taxes for the King. ( Pity ) It has not been amended. Not that it matters to the peasants. The Magna Carta describes the relationship of the Royalty and their Feudal underlings. Kings & Barons.
History does not repeat. It does rhyme, though. |
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