Saturday - April 12, 2014

A little ramble on that other preamble

The Preamble to The Bill of Rights

Congress of the United States
begun and held at the City of New-York, on
Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.

RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.

ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.

As plain as day. The Bill of Rights exists solely to more specifically limit the power of the federal government. That’s its job.

• “free speech zones” are an abridgement of freedom of speech, and thus violate the First Amendment. The Constitution does not stop applying when on campus, or when on BLM lands.
• Any and all gun control laws, except those prohibiting criminals convicted of sufficiently serious crimes from possessing arms, are an infringement, and thus violate the Second Amendment.
• Spying on the citizenry by taping all telephone conversations and reading all emails is not only an abuse of free speech, it is a violation of “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects”, and thus violates the Fourth Amendment.
• The act of storing prisoners at Gitmo forever, with no charges brought against them, when the nation is not actually in a bona fide war, really splits hairs down to the sub-atomic quantum level as to whether this violates the Seventh Amendment.
• The implementation of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, is a gross violation of the Tenth Amendment. So is Common Core, for the exact same reason: the power to regulate both health insurance and public education has always belonged to the States.

I could go on and on. These are just the tip of the iceberg. Sometimes even the Supreme Court gets it wrong; the Kelo v. New London decision severely weakened your right to own property, even though it seems to be a reiteration of 1945’s Berman v. Parker. Just one of many. So far, about the only right that hasn’t been violated is the Third Amendment, the forced quartering of troops in your home.

I’m sure you can find violations of most of the other Amendments, and violations of other sections of the Constitution. When you come right down to it, many or most of the departments of the federal government shouldn’t even exist. The whole idea of constitutionally severely limited central government seems to have been forgotten a long time ago.

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