THE BILL OF YOUR RIGHTS DEFINED
Of the six videos below, I like the first two best. Burt Neuborne really nails the Constitution and the Bill of rights. His answers to questions on the last few videos shows his superior understanding of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as they were ratified by the states.
The third video makes my head swim. Randy Barnett is your typical liberal professor that wants to make more of the Constitution than it is. He tries to imply that only a scholar can possibly understand the full spectrum on which the Constitution was written. He also seems quite bored with being scrutinized with questions by lessor human beings.
The Constitution is a government restrictive document and should by considered in it’s entirety. Breaking it apart is criminal. Breaking it apart is how the government has slowly crept in a gobbled almost all of our rights using big word lawyers to attempt to explain to us how we are better off letting them decide on what our rights are and that we couldn’t possibly understand what our founding fathers had in mind to protect our freedoms and rights.
In my opinion, anyone who looks at the Constitution in parts and makes new laws using those parts and not the whole Constitution are Constitutional criminals. Anyone then enforcing those laws are also criminals.
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I can’t say it any better than the government can.
I am surprised, with the misinformation of our country’s history that our schools are cramming into our children’s brains, there is still a government website that describes the Bill of Rights so correctly.
My prediction of my death is a brain aneurysm from hearing, one too many times, the statement “Oh, the Constitution. That outdated document that everyone is making such a big deal about. They couldn’t even wait for the ink to dry before they changed it”.
So read, in the government’s own words, what the Bill of Rights was all about:
CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT THE BILL OF RIGHTS
During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution. They demanded a “bill of rights” that would spell out the immunities of individual citizens. Several state conventions in their formal ratification of the Constitution asked for such amendments; others ratified the Constitution with the understanding that the amendments would be offered.
On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States therefore proposed to the state legislatures 12 amendments to the Constitution that met arguments most frequently advanced against it. The first two proposed amendments, which concerned the number of constituents for each Representative and the compensation of Congressmen, were not ratified. Articles 3 to 12, however, ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures, constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights.
One of the biggest reasons I bash our schools is that no teacher is teaching our history correctly. Not from one student of history do I hear the truth being spoken of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights. And the worst part of it is that until I started doing my own research, I never heard of the Preamble to the Bill of Rights. This is a crime committed to every American Citizen. The Preamble to the Bill of Rights explains, in plain English, what the Bill of Rights was all about.
Most Americans believe that the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution as an afterthought. This is either a blatant lie or it is misinformation. The Bill of Rights was added to the Articles of the Constitution to meet the requirements of the several States legislature’s before the Constitution was allowed to be ratified into being the rules by which the United States Government was to be constructed.
And, yes, I said rules by which the government was to be constructed.
The Articles of the Constitution spelled out ALL of the Federal Governments rules of construction. It spelled out how they were placed into office. It spelled out what their job was while in office. It spelled out the few powers that they had over the American Citizen’s lives. The Bill of Rights was added to further restrict the Government’s powers over the citizens.
The last Amendment of the Bill of Rights was the mother of them all. The Tenth Amendment strictly told the Federal Government that if there was anything that was left out of the Articles and the Amendments, it was none of the Federal Government’s business.
Through example, the Amendments were to be added only for the benefit of the people, not the government.
Recently we all have heard the words of Obama in that he disliked the restrictions that the Constitution laid upon the government. These words are not purely from his mouth. The whole progressive movement is about changing the Constitution’s restrictions upon government, all the while convincing the uninformed American Citizens that these changes were for their own good.
This progressive movement I speak of started more than one hundred years ago and has been carried out by very few less than all Presidential administrations since.
Throughout history the downfall of almost every society has been from the government providing for the populace.
Each time it has been the people in the government convincing the bulk of the populace into believing that the government knows better how to run the people’s lives.
Each time government assistance grew while individual responsibility shrunk.
Each time production waned and economies suffered.
Each time the government eroded individual responsibility and built their power to an unsustainable level. This power was always.
This process is in full swing today and the future of our free country is in peril.
How can I explain to the people that are waiting for the government to save them, that the job of the government is not to do things for the people. The only job of the United States Government is to protect the people’s liberties. Even the liberty to provide for oneself is to be protected.
It is up to the people to do for themselves. Tyranny is the end result of every government that turns to help the people. When the government is given an ounce of power, the people loose a pound of freedom. Eventually all liberties will be lost with government dictation as the result. The primary movers will strike and the secondaries will suffer (Atlas Shrugged).
So read, maybe for the first time, the Preamble to the Bill of Rights:
The Preamble to The Bill of Rights
Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.
ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.
And now read the Bill of Your Rights.
This document was designed purely to place restrictions upon the government. These restrictions prevent the government from having power over your life. These restrictions not only leave you responsible for your destiny but also keep you in charge of it. These restrictions leave you in command of which direction your life takes you.
These Governmental restrictions scream freedom in a universal language.
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Amendment VII
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
