Constitution
Love the Constitution – most of the time
I just received an email from the Tea Party Command Center entitled “2016 Poll: Who is your choice for the Presidential Nomination” and the choices include: Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, Allan West, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan. The truth of the matter is that any one of those people could do a better job than the person now occupying the White House, though I must admit, Jeb Bush’s name on the ballot would have me quite upset.
Who has been faithful to the Constitution?
There is a more important issue in play than the ability or conservative credentials of the names presented for your and my consideration. Our Republic is in dire straits now because we and our elected officials have not been faithful to our Constitution. There are many reasons why that happened but it has become obvious to us all, I think, that the only way to regain our freedom is to return to a strict adherence to the Constitution of the United States of America. If we are to do that we must face reality and stop dancing around certain issues even though they are difficult to deal with or because they affect our favorite conservative whom we would like to see as President of the United States.
The qualifications for President include that the candidate must be a Natural Born Citizen. That means that the person must be born in the US, a US possession or military base and have two parents who are citizens of the USA at the time of his or her birth. Our current President is not a Natural Born Citizen according to the birth certificate that he presented and is now on display on the White House website . Had we been faithful to our Constitution we would not now have a President who seems hell bent on destroying our country.
So the question is; will we obey the Law of the Land always or only when it suits us? Will we decide that it is okay for the President to be other than a natural Born Citizen if we like the person and he or she is from the party to which we belong? Are we going to just pretend that the question doesn’t really matter or we didn’t notice? The answer to these questions is important because three of the names offered, the ones in red above, are not Natural Born Citizens by the currently accepted definition established by the Supreme Court. This is the case according to everything I can find and sadly two of them would be among my first choices for the job.
Voters’ choices
This leaves us with three choices; refuse to vote for these people and hope that they do not end up on the ballot; work to change the Constitution through the amendment process; continue to stay quiet and pretend it doesn’t matter, support and vote for the person we like best regardless of that problem and join with those who only pay attention to the Constitution when it suits their purposes.
So far nobody is discussing this including those whose names appear as potential candidates. Personally I wish we would talk about this out loud and come up with a principled plan of attack. If we do not, three names would have to be crossed of my list of possible candidates. If someone finds that I have made an error determining the eligibility of those three individuals in red above, please let me know so I can quit agonizing about this issue. If I am correct, why do so may people keep putting those names forward in spite of this problem?
Reprinted from Tea Party Command Center
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we need to repeal the 16th (income tax) and 17th (direct-election-of-senators) amendments, both of which were ratified in 1913! Before the 17th amendment was ratified, senators were appointed by state legislators, not freely elected, and if they acted against the interests of their people and the constitution, they were removed. Senators are supposed to be ambassadors from the states to the federal government. Repealing the 17th amendment will force all three branches of government to obey the constitution, since appointment by state legislatures would force senators to be accountable to the people they represent instead of catering to lobbyists and special interests to extend and hold on to their own power. Another reason the 17th amendment, which has eroded state sovereignty, is bad is because the Founding Fathers did not intend for us to be a pure democracy, but a representative democracy. As they learned from ancient Athens, pure democracy self-destructs. Vladimir Lenin even said, “Democracy is indispensable to socialism.” If the United States wants its freedoms back, then it has two choices; repeal the 17th amendment, or decentralize. There is no third way.
Most of them have no clue and all members of Congress should show they posses a knowledge of what it contains. Like for instance Checks and Balances of power. Congress has demonstrated total ignorance of that fact.
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