Constitutional Crisis

Constitutional Mandates Ignored
Our leaders swore an oath to defend and protect the constitution. This has now become interpreted to mean defend and protect the United States. These are not the same things. Because they have become confused about what they are to protect they now think it is their job to rewrite the constitution for the sake of nation.
As a result they are so zealous to write new laws that they don't even have time to read them before they vote on them! What insanity is this that we let our leaders pass laws without reading them?

Following are some examples of how they are ignoring the constitution they swore to defend as though it were an outdated document fit for the 21st Century. They have become so superior in their own minds that they feel they don’t need to answer to anyone. Even worse if they are challenged it seems they will purposely do the opposite of what is desired. They have also decided it is time to begin to destroy the lives of those people who oppose them.

They are trying to take over companies as though the government has any right at all to own a company or run it. This is nothing more than fascism. This is not democracy or a democratic republic and it certainly isn’t constitutional. On top of that consider these are people who are so responsible they voted for a trillion dollars in spending without ever reading the bill that would determine where or how that money would be spent. Do you want people like this running either the nation or even a company?

Below is a short list of constitutional articles that have been ignored and set aside for the sake of doing what they want rather than what they should.

Article 2, Section 1
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

It has been said recently that our nation may be at a constitutional crisis. I agree that this may be the case. We may be a point of crisis in several different ways. We have a man who has managed to become president without yet proving that he meets the minimum requirements for that office. Obama has yet to prove he is a natural born citizen. The media doesn't seem to feel there is any need for him to prove this either or at least they are refusing to report anything about it, hoping it will go away.

Obama has stonewalled every attempt to get copies of his school documents that may indicate that he got scholarships and grants and an alien. He has refused to release the originals of his birth certificate and has somehow convinced Hawaii that they should not release those documents to anyone.

Article 1, Section 9
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

This covers enemy combatants, and though the constitution is clear about this our non-representing representatives do not seem so clear about it. We have come to some place that we do not feel we have a right to treat our enemies as anything but citizens without doing some harm to our constitution in spite of the fact that our constitution makes allowance for this. Our founding fathers understood that we would encounter times of war and have people fighting against us. They understood the dangers these people posted and made the determination that the laws protecting our citizens did not necessarily protect our enemies. Yet our leaders are incapable of recognizing the difference in these two situations. They are so busy trying to be the kinder gentler more morally superior crowd that they lack the understanding everyone else in the world has about how things work when dealing with your enemies.

Article 1, Section 9
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of ALL public Money shall be published from time to time

The treasury is required to give us an accounting of their expenditures for ALL public money, yet not even the congress can find out where over $300,000,000,000 went. The treasury behaves as though it were none of their business and the congress allows itself to be bullied.
Our congress does not realize it is a toothless, declawed lion which has been caged but the very judges it has nominated. Activist judges are more than happy to allow the congress to think their laws matter as long as the laws agree with what the judges want, but if the judges disapprove of any law legally legislated by the congress or the people, they simply declare it unconstitutional and that's the end of that law. As such the congress has no power but what the judges give it.
As I state above consider that our leaders voted for a trillion dollars worth of spending and never read the bill they voted for. They had no idea where that money was going to go or how it was going to be spent, but they voted for the bill anyway. These people ought to be driven from office. This is not responsible leadership by any definition!

Article 1, Section 10
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

Our money is supposed to be based on gold and silver coin, but our leaders decided this wasn't such a good idea in spite of what the constitution says. Rather than amend the constitution they simply ignore. What does this get us? We now have congress printing money as fast as they can which is going cripple our economy shortly. They should know this is the case, but they choose to ignore the danger. These men and women in congress seem to be under the sad impression that they are at least as wise, if not wiser than the founding fathers. I contend that if we had today's congressmen in office at the time the constitution was written our nation would not have lasted even 50 years much less have grown to be the most powerful and richest nation on the earth. We have leaders that want to try political experimentation with things that have already been done and failed, yet they want to give them another try. This shows that our leaders cannot learn from the mistakes of others. I doubt they will even learn from their own mistakes.

Our congress does not seem to believe this article applies to them as they were trying by law to undo a contract already agreed on between AIG and its employees for bonuses. Yet through law and intimidation they sought to overturn that contract. Their contempt and ignorance for the constitution they swore to uphold is reprehensible

Article 1, Section 6
No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.

Here we have another example of congress ignoring an inconvenient constitutional mandate because they don't like it. They wanted to have Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State so they chose to ignore this mandate and just appoint her any way. The media did nothing to confront this and most of the people in the United States hardly even know where the various states are much less ever having read the constitution.

Separation of Powers
The constitution is clear about the separation of powers to prevent any one section of the government from becoming more powerful from the others and more or less staging a coupe. Our founding fathers understood the tendency toward corruption and the need for checks and balances.

They set things up so it would be very difficult for any one branch of government to usurp the powers of another. They understood that man desiring power as they do would fight to keep their own and thus prevent the other branches from gaining too much power. As mentioned above our judges have finally discovered that the laws passed by congress or any other legislative branch are meaningless in so far as they get to interpret the constitution. All they have to do is declare any law unconstitutional and it is immediately cast out now matter how much the people want it. In similar manner no matter how much people oppose something they need only declare that they found the thing they want in the constitution and it is instantly law. This does away with the need for the legislative branch.

Though this is never stated out loud the judges not only realize this is true but are acting on it more and more. Our judges have further come to realize that they are immune from the will of the people in another way. They do not have to worry about re-election. Once they are APPOINTED to their positions, it is for life or till they decide to retire. Being immune from this, they become bolder and bolder with each passing year taking more and more of the power appointed to others by the constitution.

The congress still has a chance to take that power back, but not for long. Soon they will be forced to co-operate with judges or face their wrath. Our legislators have been emasculated whether they realize it or not. They may not even know how to get back the power they've been giving away for the last 4 decades or more. It has been a case of the frog in a pot of water being slowly boiled. They have not even seen what's been coming because they also viewed their job as one of making law after law and regulating everything they could think of. They have lost sight of the ideal that they are there to defend and protect the constitution not rewrite it.