Comments about ‘Study history of Constitution, the envy of all nations’

Political science classes at colleges and university's all over the state of Utah are, I hope, going to be reviewing and analyzing Don Gale's excellent words. Don Gale goes right to the basics of what the Constitution of the United States is, a living document serving as a blueprint to how we progress, as a nation, from day to day.
His article brings new understanding to the inflammatory words used by those who argue for drastic immediate change, and how the usage of those words is distilled down to bigotry.

Political science classes at colleges and university's all over the state of Utah are, I hope, going to be reviewing and analyzing Don Gale's excellent words. Don Gale goes right to the basics of what the Constitution of the United States is, a living document serving as a blueprint to how we progress, as a nation, from day to day.
His article brings new understanding to the inflammatory words used by those who argue for drastic immediate change, and how the usage of those words is distilled down to bigotry.

Political science classes at colleges and university's all over the state of Utah are, I hope, going to be reviewing and analyzing Don Gale's excellent words. Don Gale goes right to the basics of what the Constitution of the United States is, a living document serving as a blueprint to how we progress, as a nation, from day to day.
His article brings new understanding to the inflammatory words used by those who argue for drastic immediate change, and how the usage of those words is distilled down to bigotry.

I have no argument with studying the Constitution. History is our best teacher, if we'll learn what it has to say. At the same time, the Constitution has become more of a political football than an actual reference point. We have devolved from a republic to a democracy, the very form of government the founders were deliberately trying to avoid. Federalism is a dead letter in the Constitution, and we're getting closer to an oligarchy as each day passes. Citizens have passed on their duty to become actively engaged, and have allowed a chosen few to make their decisions for them. Voting has become a mere formality. The two-party system has solidified their power by fooling Americans into believing there's really a difference that matters between Republicans and Democrats. For all intents and purposes, the Constitution has become a relic and no longer has use other than to create a cover for whatever law or decision the majority or the Supreme Court decides to enact.

I studied the History of Latin America. The question comes up: "why did so few democracies flourish in Latin America?"

Once American trading ships would take copies of our constitution to other counties. Nothing took root.

Latin American had a small group that controlled most the wealth. Education played a large factor, Once even kids in rural America where educated and they read. We have a representational form of government. Voting gave Americans ownership of their government.

Watching this summer it would seem that many Americans never heard of the Whiskey Rebellion or the Civil War.

We saw, after spending a trillion dollars that we didn't have to spend, that you just can make Iraq or any nation an US style democracy.

We saw this summer, the plunge of the US in to a third world culture where when you lose you shout down people, abandon manners and civility and its fashionable for some to hate our freely elected government. We saw scenes at could have been from Latin America or parts of Africa.

Would people studying the constitution really help? The minutemen were preaching the virtue to all the rest of us to follow the law. Then they sing the praises of the list makers and ask for amnesty, they very thing they claimed all along to despise.

Many conservatives insist courts rule according to law and the constitution, and to not legislate from the bench, yet they then turn around and try to make believe the 14th ammendment doesn't grant citizenship to people born here.

The ACLU advertises they are guardians of the constitution, yet they pick and choose, i.e. they don't defend the 2nd ammendment.

I've come to the conclusion that the the loud mouth groups don't care about law or the constitution. What they care about is their own pet causes and they merely sing the praises of law and the constitution when it suits their purposes.

"The Constitution has proved to be an instrument for ratifying the expansion of State power rather than the
opposite."
--Murray Rothbard

Give me the Articles of Confederation over the U.S. Constitution any day.

Funny how Gale mentions the first part of the 14th admendment defining a ctizen,

but IGNORES the second REQUIRED PART:

"...and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside?


is th child of NON citizens subject to juridistion therof?


that is why the 14th needs to be fixed,
to clarify it, and for needs of today. and not 150 years ago.



But funny hoe a LIBERAL alwasy take sonmething out context, then spins their story. form it the story they want to tell,

rather than telling the WHOLE truth, which seems always detrmental to their false/lie-based cause.


shame on gale and othese of the left for this tactic of dishonesty.

i feel that anyone in this country is subject to the jurisdiction of the government unless specifically excluded as a diplomat from a foreign country---all of the rest of us are subject to arrest or censure of the states and federal law enforcement agencies---we cannot murder or speed or steal with out finding ourselves the subject of the various jurisdictions we reside in---hence the leaving out the second part---