July 23, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I took the plunge and published my proposed Amendments to the Constitution, available for perusal and comment on my pages under that revered document.
Our Founding Fathers did their best, but I fear that even James Madison, the primary author of our Constitution, could not have envisioned or wrapped his head around the systematic destruction of his work by a legal community so perverse and persnickity as to parse the meaning of the word “is”; a society wherein honour is a dirty word; a community wherein the First Amendment is construed to mean freedom from religion, except where it protects the theocracy of the sworn enemies who have invaded and attacked us; a Union of Sovereign States marginalized as mere inconveniences; a Presidency that not only won’t enforce laws Congress passes or protect the citizens from invasion by foreign intruders, but engages in litigation against them for protecting themselves; a judiciary that won’t hear challenges to abuses of power by the other two branches; and a Congress that thinks it can “deem” legislation into being, has the effrontery to laugh at a question of Constitutional authority to act, refuses to do its duty to ensure that a foreign interloper and usurper cannot take control of our government, and invites the head of an invading foreign state to address them and gives him honors, while castigating his countrymen’s victims.
It is significant that one of the most prestigious law schools in the country has removed Constitutional Law from its required curriculum, courtesy of our most recent SCOTUS appointee, Elena Kagan.
I don’t think even our Founders had a clue of what lengths the corrupt would travel in search of power, prestige, and wealth. Sadly, I believe that, like our forefathers, every now and again we are required to bite the bullet, and send through the Constitutional Amendment process numerous proposals to realign our society – of which none better has ever been designed by the mind of man – to the original limited intentions of our Founders. Our Constitution is sound, but it needs a bit of tweaking to accommodate, and rein in, the evolving selfishness of man over the course of the last couple of centuries.
In this light, I have been composing, over the course of the last several months, several Amendments. Other scholars have done the same, so I know I am not alone, although I may be unique in my viewpoints. That is what debate is about, and isn’t America a wonderful place to accomplish this?
My proposals are still evolving, so I will periodically revise them, as I continue to read what more learned and more experienced minds than mine have written on the subject, or as evolving circumstances make plain that I, like Madison, have failed to consider ever twist and turn. If you notice some redundancy between Amendments, or even within a single proposal, it is not through oversight – it is an attempt to cover all bases, between Amendments that affect multiple arenas, or might not be ratified, or to remove ambiguity from a provision sure to invite abusive interpretation by creative lawyers and corruptocrats.
May God bless America, and may our Founders continue to rest in peace.
