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Originally posted by LeaderOfProgress
I can promise nothing that I quoted was taken out of context. I fully support a revolution. I do and will continue to put myself on the line, in order to acheive the objective of cooling the government down to a proper size. My thoughts are that the constitution usurps the declaration of independence, making just a novelty document.
I do question the resolve of many people when it comes to the act of putting ones self in jepoardy to attain a better nation for our children. I guess my main point is that when it comes time to stand up, how many will drop what they are doing and begin masochistical journey to true freedom.
Will those who do this acctually be cosidered patriots by all, just as our forefathers are now? Or will we be grouped as malitias and nutjobs for our attempts to improve our nation?
What powers do all of you feel should be limited?
What requirements do you all feel should be met in order to be in a political office?
What benefits should be given to elected officials?
What restrictions should be placed in order to set a new system of checks and balances?
How do we keep the corruption out of the government?
What term limits should be in place for people elected?
Should cabinets be elected instead of chosen?
How about the supreame court, should it be an elected body?
Originally posted by Salt of the Earth
We already have an excellent form of government, our constitution. The Declaration is part of it, its foundation, just as a company must have a founding document and later on it writes its bylaws.
The Constitution is like the bylaws of the document of incorporation or founding.
This 10 minute video is very excellent, explains why a Republic such as this country was originally designed is the only way to go, and why the only alternative to it is an oligarchy of wicked men to enslave and kill the populace.
www.wimp.com...
Originally posted by LeaderOfProgress
You just described in your last paragraph what most people believe the government is doing now. The constitution is not solid enough at this point in time to ensure a government of the people by the people for the people. Most people feel enslaved by the government and elite ruling class. Please clarify what makes our form of government excellent at this time. Do you support corruption and criminal activities in all tiers of government?
It is very true that, whenever hostility to the existing system shall become universal, it will be also irresistible. The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will. But this supreme and irresistible power to make or to unmake resides only in the whole body of the people, not in any subdivision of them. The attempt of any of the parts to exercise it is usurpation, and ought to be repelled by those to whom the people have delegated their power of repelling it.
The acknowledged inability of the government, then, to sustain itself against the public will and, by force or otherwise, to control the whole nation, is no sound argument in support of its constitutional inability to preserve itself against a section of the nation acting in opposition to the general will.
Originally posted by pai mei
When the plane is falling from the sky, you do not revolt to change the pilot, you escape the plane - Daniel Quinn