All About US – A More Perfect Union
All About US – (18th of a series)
>From my unpublished book.
Why was government instituted at all? “Because the passions of men will not
conform to the dictates of reason and Justice without restraint.”
“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the
creature of their own will and lives only by their will.”
A More Perfect Union
(Editor’s note: this was written in 1975.)
>From this handful of examples, it is easy to conclude that this is not a
>perfect nation. And if it is bad now when 20% of our children are having
>children, imagine how it will be when 25% of the population reaching adulthood
>was raised by teenage moms? That’s the bad news. The good news is this may be
>the time any nation was ever given a 20-year warning of foreboding disaster.
Perhaps it is still possible to repair the damage we’ve done to our beloved
Constitution by sending lawyers to the Capitol for the last two hundred years.
What if only college English professors were nominated to the U.S. Supreme
Court to interpret the Constitution? Maybe legislators and judges who openly
violate the Law of the Land should be impeached for breaking the oath they
swore to uphold at their installation, as provided in the Constitution. (It is
bad behavior to break an oath, isn’t it?)
Or maybe, the Constitution has not kept up with the times and cannot be
expected to answer the question of the day, like: should embryos be patented
and why perpetual motion machines cannot. Just maybe we should run the risk of
relegating the US Constitution, which we all hold dear to our heart, to a place
of respected honor in our history next to the Magna Carta---and write a new
more relevant one.
At first, this may seem overly dramatic, like throwing the baby out with the
bath water, but do you realize states have this power within their grasp?
Thirty-two states, Texas included have called for a Constitutional Convention
which would be empowered to do just that. If they are joined by just two of the
eleven still considering the wisdom of such a move(authorized in Article V of
the Constitution), it will become a reality.
Note: in Walker vs the US , Bill Walker pointed out that over the years
virtually every state in the union has called for a Constitutional Convention.
I'M MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE.
http://www.thepetit ionsite.com/ 1/recall- the-congress- of-this-united-
states
Would you like to help organize a march on Washington
like the one that successfully brought an end to Viet war?
If we don't fire Washington, who will?
For details, send email to:
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Rich Martin
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