Sunday, September 18, 2011

Constitution Day!!

There's a web site of course :
http://www.constitutionday.com/
I read where the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) have some celebration/information event planned. (My many and humble apologies to the DAR as I couldn't find a link nor a copy of the story I read in the Review.)
And no doubt 'there is an app for that' too.
Our Constitution is a subjective document.
'As Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story said in 1845: "How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be."
From : http://theweek.com/article/index/212209/the-constitution-what-the-founders-intended
THAT underlying truth and having the tea party members tell me that I wasn't a 'real' American - is what drove and drives me AGAINST the tea party.
You can tell someone their argument is false. And then you have the choice to present FACTS showing cause or cowardly decline and resort to sniping and name calling. But you CAN NOT tell another American that THEY are false.
Our Nation was founded on the guiding principle that 'We The People' are United.
We are Americans first.
Republicans, tea party, Democrats or Independents SECOND.
Far, far too many forget that.
So with hope, take a moment today, even just 5 minutes and look over that great document that daily we should celebrate and embrace is the very reason we can choose.
I've had the same copy of the Constitution since 1970.
But for sure convenience I love this site : http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/
And another great site : http://www.usconstitution.net/constnot.html
This one line along with Justice Story's quote should sum it up : 'Basically, unless your interpretation of the Constitution freezes it in 1789', there is a LOT that the Constitution may not state in print but allows in spirit.
You know that old saying - the letter of the law vs. the spirit of the law.

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