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Old 11-06-2010 | 11:03 AM
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For now. But generations of progressivists (on both sides of the so called 2 party isle) hold the belief, and barf from top to bottom all through the educational system at all levels, that our "living document" is really a system that gives all rights to the government to dole out as it wishes, dependant only on the whims of an activist judiciary.

Some entire cities and states shred entire amendments, and higher powers outright ignore the existance of others. Yet it is not the ammendments or even the Constiution itself that "gives" us a single right. Our rights are inalienable. Birthrights. And those rights listed in the Bill of Rights are only a tiny sample of the absolute and permanant rights we own as human beings. Amendments 1-8 were merely illustrative examples of the type of rights we own, over and above any government edict (i.e. the myth of "martial law" or "suspending the Constitution" etc that some people actually believe is permitted under any circumstance.)

Amendments 9-10 taken in the context of the preamble, built on the foundation of the Declaration and backed up by volumes of writings from the federalist papers and numerous other sources from the framers themselves clearly busts the myth of progressivism and incrimental statism. That is why the usurpers of the Constitution in specific and the shredders of the raw concept of inalienable individual rights in general have focused so closely on installing an activist judiciary who can "interpret" anything to mean whatever they want.

Some even joke about lying to get into power and then wordsmithing pre-determined decisions regardless of the written law or especially the inalienable natural law, like a recent SCOTUS appointee did (and still got confirmed and lauded with "historical greatness").

Education at the individual level is the key and the true meaning of inalienable individual rights as it applies to our early history and existance as a nation is the door for it to open.
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