[TheForge] Constitution (ot)

Fri Jun 21 03:37:00 2002

Thanks Jerry;

   I knew I was off there somewhere,  point remains the same... read
the constitution, it says, repeatedly,  "the right of the people shall
not be infringed."  It started out as an instrument to keep government
off of the people's backs.  Has ended up a "granting of rights" by
people who are employees, not kings.

   Jeff    ><>

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Subject: [TheForge] Constitution (ot)

> In a message dated 02-06-20 20:19:42 EDT, you write:
>
> << But most all
>  teaching of constitution ended in or about 1970, so even the cops
you
>  have sworn to uphold the constitution have never read it.>>
>
> I was born in 1970.  Was required to study the Constitution -- and
pass an
> exam on it -- in order to graduate high school.  Public high school,
St.
> Louis, MO.  Memory indicates this was state law.
>
>   <<  People all say the Constitution "gives us rights"... Re-read
the
>  parts written by the original authors.  They clearly state in the
>  preamble, (and I'm going to butcher this , my copy doesn't have the
>  preamble)  "All men are endowed by their creator with certain
>  inalienable rights."  >>
>
> No, it doesn't.  That's is from the Preamble to the Declaration of
> Independance.  The Preamble of the Constitution goes:
>
> "We the people of the United States of America, in order to form a
more
> perfect Union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility,
provide for
> the common defense, promote the genreal welfare and insure the
blessings of
> Liberty, to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain an establish this
> Constitution, for the United States of America"
>
> You can thank the aforementioned class, and School House Rock, for
that being
> imbedded in my mind.
>
> Jerry V
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