Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Commentary: Reflections on the Bill of Rights
The deep divisions plaguing our country may find a remedy in the most unlikely of places: the Bill of Rights. Ratified 229 years ago on December 15, 1791, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution are known collectively as the Bill of Rights. There is little public commemoration of December 15, in contrast to the tradition of celebrating two famous dates in the history of the United States—the Fourth of July, the day that the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776, and September 17, the day that the members of the Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in Philadelphia in 1787. Yet, of the three documents, the Bill of Rights is perhaps the one most invoked by citizens and advocates in everyday life.
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The Bill of Rights is the leash that keeps the government in check. The founders knew that government breeds bureaucracy and that bureaucrats needs to be held in check otherwise they would run roughshod over the citizens.
ReplyDeleteThey may have created what they thought would be limited government but fresh in their minds was the ordeal that was our Revolutionary war and the difficulties faced and conquered ultimately should never need be conquered again. The Bill of Rights was as essential then as it is now.
All power corrupts and corrupts thoroughly. Career politicians are no different than monarchs and monarchies are by design despotic. You can argue against this but when you see the likes of Pelosi and Schumer as well as the other long term congresscritters you begin to understand it is not about representing the people and is instead about ruling the people by any means necessary. Imagine how they would conduct themselves if we did not have the Bill of Rights limiting their encroachment on our lives.
The Covid19 scamdemic is a perfect example of how government exceeds its mandate and it is getting to be time for the people to stand up and start telling the government to stop ordering and understand they provide guidance not rules on issues like this.
A 'mandate' is Barack and Michelle going out to dinner.
DeleteA 'dictate' comes from a dictator.
That leash is looking more like fishing line on a Coyote's neck. I think we're better off putting it out of our misery.
DeleteOh, wait...she's serious? In that case, let us laugh even harder!
ReplyDelete- The Courts