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Constitution Day time to reflect on founding ideals
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tomorrow, Sept. 17, is U.S. Constitution Day. It’s a day set aside to honor the document that outlines the basic freedoms that are fundament to the United States, the tenets of our democracy that we have held dear and defended with our lives for more than 200 years.
Now, as our nation faces some of its most difficult financial and governmental challenges in those 200-pluse years of its existence, the Constitution should be a forefront of all our minds.
The basic ideals outlined in the preamble – to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity – are as valid and important today as they were when they were written in 1776, perhaps even more so. Yet, so many of our politicians and men and women in the public debate seem to be more caught up in the politics and the spin, the give and take of Washington and partisanship than in the simple ideals of forming a more perfect union, establishing true justice, securing the blessings of liberty.
As Constitution Day approaches, we encourage each of you to take a few minutes, read the preamble and the Constitution and reflect on the document and the words at the center of our deomcracy. Then, thin about what each of us can d and should do to help ensure our democracy continues to grow and flourish for another 200 years, carrying on the same vision set forth by our founding fathers.
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Posted by White_Lightning1 (anonymous) on September 16, 2009 at 2:23 a.m.
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Posted by blue (anonymous) on September 16, 2009 at 3:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I think that teaching of the Constitution should begin in pre-k..government and civics..kids DO understand..probably better than adults.
Posted by Thomas_Jefferson (anonymous) on September 16, 2009 at 9:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The best way to honor the constitution of these united states would be to actually follow it.
No elected official in the federal government has bothered to examine the legality of their actions in the past 20 years.
Posted by blue (anonymous) on September 16, 2009 at 11:18 a.m. (Suggest removal)
probably because they haven't bothered to read it
Posted by Thomas_Jefferson (anonymous) on September 17, 2009 at 11:52 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Congress never voted on the Iraq war. They allowed President Bush to declare war. This is unconstitutional. Article 1 section 8.
The Patriot act had provisions in it that were a violation of the 4th ammendment. They were removed only after a federal court trial. There are still provision in this that are a violation of civil rights.
Any one saying the constitution is a living breathing document is wrong. If this were the case James Madison would not have included in article V the process to ammend the constitution.
President Obama giving TARP money the auto industries. Auto companies are not a finacial institutions. Tarp money was approved by congress for troubled assets of finacial institutions.
Posted by Thomas_Jefferson (anonymous) on September 17, 2009 at 3:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)
We agree on several points.
As for the war, Ron Paul ask for a vote on sending troops and members of both parties back away from the table because no one wanted their names attached to it.
You are correct about CARS
I am referring to TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program). Bush rammed it through even though it was hugely unpopular to the public last year. It was intended to go to the banks to buy up their bad loans and was further allocated to go to GM and Chrysler.
Posted by oldhog (anonymous) on September 17, 2009 at 9:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Wow Just when I thought Thomas Jefferson was dead. I think Thomas Jefferson and Fox are married or at least work together. Sounds exactly like the conversations the wife and I have every other day.
Posted by OldSchoolPike3Worker (anonymous) on September 21, 2009 at 9:50 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Fox, I happen to be glad the Constitution was written by those men at that time. It was those ideas that were written down in that document that caused slavery's undoing. I would hate to see where we would be as a nation if the Articles of Confederation were left in place.
Posted by jm4128 (anonymous) on September 23, 2009 at 10:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Many of the founders, Jefferson being chief among them, had serious moral issues with slavery while still being slave owners. With that being said, they did condone slavery to one degree or another by not banning it in the Constitution. This shouldn't vilify them because they were men responding to their age. But, it does show that sticking stringently to original intent is flawed. The Constitution is and must be a living document, both maintaining its basic character and adapting to new wisdom and circumstances. - And, conservatives and liberals in the US, for the most part, make sure that this happens in balance. The system works! Celebrate. - That's the genius of the democratic design Jefferson and most of our founders fought for and is reflected and outlined in our Constitution.
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