Most of my readers are probably veterans, anti-globalists, and of course constitutionalists. Or so most of them say they are. I've been doing a lot of research lately into the Constitution. I also been looking into legislation passed by congress, policies made by the executive branch, and all the other bulls**t that comes out of Washington lately. Then something dawn to me.
Art I Sec 4
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The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day."
Art I Sec 6
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The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."
Art I Sec 7
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All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills."
Oh and my favorite Section of Article I of the Constitution, the whole section:
Art I Sec 8
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The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."
Are any of these sections being upheld by our government? There are many more that are not being followed but these are the ones I am touching on right now. And keep in mind that out of all of the ones mentioned only one had an amendment, it changed the day Congress meets from 1st Monday of December to the 3rd day of January.
So has anything the Government have been doing Constitutional?(Rhetorical question) Yet we allow them to do it. We fought the British for violating our basic human rights, for imposing unfair and illegal taxes, for stealing, for no representation, for abuse of military power imposed on civilians, the list goes on. Yet the United States Federal Government is doing it to you and you shrug your shoulders. They purposely violate the supreme law of the land and you stand by as it is nothing.
My last blog I quoted Thomas Jefferson, "Every citizen should be a soldier... ." Here is the most important part of the Constitution in my opinion:
Bill of Rights, 10th Amendment
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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Through out history there has been many in government that have mocked, ignored, snubbed at this article, yet it is the most important, it is the article that prohibits the Government from oversteping its bounds set by the Constitution. It puts the power in the hands of the American Citizen.
Here is one other article I want you to put thought into:
Bill of Rights, 2nd Amendment
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"
Brothers and Sister in Arms, Brothers and Sisters in Law Enforcement, local Public Servants, you are the security of the free States, along with every other citizen of the United States of America. The difference between you and a civilian is that you made an oath to uphold the constitution, to defend and support it.
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