The Constitution Is not a la Carte

Subject: Re: Thom Hartmann's Blog: The Constitution Is not a la Carte

FDR had the skills to keep the rascally Dixicrats under some control.  But the Republican Party lacks the ability.  Once the Dixicrats became the Right Wing of the Republican Party, they began wagging the dog.  And in that sense, wagging the entire nation. 

 

Carl Jarvis

 

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From: joe harcz Comcast

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Subject: Re: Thom Hartmann's Blog: The Constitution Is not a la Carte

It is incredible to see a sort of sick re play of ideology that led to the
American Civil War in the first place.

In fact it is simply, bizarre.
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From: "ted chittenden" <tchittenden@cox.net>
To: "blind-democracy" <blind-democracy@octothorp.org>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 10:09 PM
Subject: Thom Hartmann's Blog: The Constitution Is not a la Carte


> Hi to all.
>
> I strongly agree with Mr. Hartmann's analysis below. Unfortunately, I'm
> not so sure that the current roster of judges on the U.S. Supreme Court
> does!
> --
> Ted Chittenden
>
> Every story has at least two sides if not more.
> ----
> This may come as news to some Red state lawmakers, but there's more to the
> Constitution
> than the Second and the Tenth Amendments.  The background check bill
> failed the
> Senate, but that didn't stop several Republican states from passing bills
> to exempt
> themselves from federal gun laws.
>
> Earlier this week, the Alabama state senate passed legislation to nullify
> all federal
> laws they deem "a violation of the Second Amendment."  They weren't the
> first though,
> as Mississippi attempted to nullify federal laws back in January, and
> Kansas passed
> similar legislation last month.  But, the nullification measures in these
> states
> are meaningless, as they violate the Constitution's Supremacy Clause,
> which states
> that federal laws, "shall be the supreme law of the land."  Apparently,
> these states
> think they can violate one part of the Constitution to uphold another.
>
> Thankfully, Attorney General Eric Holder is helpfully reminding these
> states that
> our Union doesn't operate that way.  In a letter to Kansas Governor Sam
> Brownback,
> Holder wrote, "In purporting to override federal law and to criminalize
> the official
> acts of federal officers, [the law] directly conflicts with federal law
> and is therefore
> unconstitutional."
>
> These Red states can't pick and choose the parts of the Constitution they
> want to
> follow.  They can't decide they like the Second and Tenth Amendments and
> act as
> if the rest doesn't apply to them.  And the Supremacy Clause is one of the
> Constitution's
> most important tenants.  James Madison himself warned that nullification
> of federal
> law would, "speedily put an end to the Union itself."
>
> Republicans constantly tout the importance of our founding fathers, and
> the Constitution
> they drafted to form our Union.  So, it's about time that those on the
> Right start
> respecting all of it.
>
> -Thom
>
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