Interesting, and very much on target discussion from a Constitutional standpoint about the USA of today.
Anyone else remember maniati's prediction about the KELO DECISION marking the end of personal property rights, and thus, the end of our Republic ?
I sure do. Wish that post were still available - it was eloquent. RB, of course, has long since gone to the sewers to which it aspired.
Here's an excerpt - very lengthy article - well written.
http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/after-the-republic/
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No one running for the GOP nomination discussed the greatest violation of popular government’s norms—never mind the Constitution—to have occurred in two hundred years, namely, the practice, agreed upon by mainstream Republicans and Democrats, of rolling all of the government’s expenditures into a single bill. This eliminates elected officials’ responsibility for any of the government’s actions, and reduces them either to approving all that the government does without reservation, or the allegedly revolutionary, disloyal act of “shutting down the government.”
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Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good ...
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