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"And our forefathers when they wrote the Constitution, thats spelled out in black and white, never thought that it would be manipulated either did they."
Really?
You've ever heard of the Alien and Sedition laws, which heavily manipulated the Constitution, and which were passed by many of the same men who WROTE the Constitution?
I'm not sure why everyone seems to think that the Framers laid down the Constitution, quit there, and retired to have their likenesses carved into marble for posterity.
They didn't.
The entire US Code, passed in increments throughout the 1790s through the early 1800s, was an exercise in manipulating the Constitution.
How about Louisiana Purchase? Nothing in the Constitution gave the Federal government the right or ability to add to the nation through outright purchase of land from a foreign government. Jefferson and many of the men who wrote the Constitution manipulated it to make the purchase legal even though there were calls that it was an unconstitutional usurpation of power by the Federal government.
If the Framers could see things now, they'd see a continuation of the process that they started. Nothing more.
Some of them would be supremely ******. Others would likely be more than fine with much of what's gone on in the past 200 years.
I'll say it one last time.
Unclench your buttocks, pull your skivies out of your rat hole, and concentrate on what is happening RIGHT NOW. Don't fight the battle that you THINK you might have to fight, fight the battle that is in front of you.
Your advocacy is far more effective that way.
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