Happy Constitution Day!

Published Monday, September 17, 2012 A.D. | By Donald R. McClarey

Who knew Barney Fife worked for the Obama administration?

Captain Kirk could have given Barney a hand:

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army. These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be turned against our liberties, without making us stronger or weaker for the struggle. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, every where. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage, and you are preparing your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of those around you, you have lost the genius of your own independence, and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises.

Abraham Lincoln

5 Responses to Happy Constitution Day!

Mary De Voe says:

Monday, September 17, 2012 A.D. at 8:37pm

Isaiah 50:4c-9a Sunday, September 16, 2012 reading:
“If anyone wishes to oppose me, let us appear together. Who disputes my right? Let that man confront me. See, the Lord God is my help; who will prove me wrong?
If anyone wishes to oppose me, let us appear together. Who disputes my right? Let that man confront me.” : Habeas Corpus, a person must be confronted by his accuser in a court of law. No trials in absentia. “See, the Lord God is my help; who will prove me wrong?” Two witnesses will establish a judicial fact. One witness is no witness. The Magna Carta and The U.S. Constitution based on Judeo-Christian principles found in Isaiah.

The militant feminists have embraced Roe v. Wade, the miscarriage of Justice against the newly created sovereign soul of the human being. The abortionists work to erase the Preamble to our Constitution which identifies “our posterity” as one of the reasons for the Constitution, as well as the Ninth Amendment which reiterates the sovereignty of the person as coming from our Creator inscribed in our Declaration of Independence. Being as it is, that the sovereign soul is endowed with life from the very first moment of conception, the sovereign person is present in the very first cell of every human being’s existence as “I AM”. “I AM” is the sovereign person scraped from the womb in abortion through the miscarriage of Justice called Roe v. Wade.
PM says:

Monday, September 17, 2012 A.D. at 8:41pm

1787 – 2012, so 225 years old
(and surviving euthanasia attempts … )

For the occasion, I found my parents’ beyond yellowed copy that I kept because the notations are good, if sad in light of how the Constitiution is getting ignored and worse.
It seems that the House and Senate hold power to protect it, but these people aren’t doing anything to do so because why? Or is the media not saying?

From Thomas James Norton’s book, 1951 edition,
The Constitution of the United States:
Its Sources and Its Application
A Handbook for Citizens and Public Officials

[1st ]
On the cover is the OATH taken by all Officers elected or appointed to Civil or Armed Services:

I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
that I willl bear true faith and allegiance to the same;
that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion;
and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter so help me God.

[2nd & interesting]
Next to the copyright page …

Our Constitution – Civil Bible of America

Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic. Democracy is the outgrowth of the religious conviction of the sacredness of every human life. On the religious side, its highest embodiment is the Bible; on the political, the Constitution. As has been said so well, “The Constitution is the civil bible of Americans.” Next to the Bible, the best book on the Constitution should be in every home, school, library, and parish hall.

page signed by 10 people …
Herbert C Hoover
Alfred E Smith
Alfred M Landon
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt
James M Cox
John W Davis
Mrs. William H Taft
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison
Frances Cleveland Preston

[3rd - a picture]
of George Washington presiding over the Constitutional Convention urging
“a standard to which the wise and honest can repair”
86 days from May 1787 to September 17, 1787.

There’s so much more.
Maybe the Preamble that Barney Fife learned then forgot, trusting that elected representatives were watchdogging for him is what happened to us.
Mary De Voe says:

Monday, September 17, 2012 A.D. at 8:59pm

PM “Maybe the Preamble that Barney Fife learned then forgot, trusting that elected representatives were watchdogging for him is what happened to us.”

I was told in no uncertain terms that the Preamble to our Constitution was no longer the Law of the Land. Roe v. Wade was. That the founding fathers were old fashioned men over two hundred years old to be ridiculed, and no longer relevant.

It is time to force our education establishment to teach our U.S. Constitution and our Declaration of Independence to our constitutional posterity with respect and intelligent citizenship. One might add The Emancipation Proclaimation.
T. Shaw says:

Monday, September 17, 2012 A.D. at 9:14pm

“We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty.” Mussolini 1937/Obama 2013.
PM says:

Monday, September 17, 2012 A.D. at 9:27pm

Mary DeVoe: The schools would need a computerized lesson for the students to do at their pace but it would probably be somehow slanted.

Or! Captain Kirk could go on the commercials for finding good prices with an entree about what’s free for all people. They’d lend an ear.