The Republican leadership presented a summary of the new rules [House] Wednesday morning, revealing a number of strict -- and in a few cases unprecedented -- changes to the way Congress will be run. To underscore their point, they will kick off their reign as the majority by doing something that remarkably has never been done before: They will read the Constitution, all 4,543 words of it, including all 27 amendments, aloud on the chamber floor....Antifederalists were reported to be spinning in their graves.
Keeping with the theme, Republicans will also require every new bill presented on the House floor to cite which article in the Constitution authorizes the enacting of such legislation, a nod to the Tea Party, which made the Constitution a tenant of its movement throughout the midterm election cycle.
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Freedom Is at Hand!
Reported by ABC News, Dec. 30:
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This brings to mind one of the bullet points in Wilt Alston's article, "You might be a Statist if ...":
You think that rules written by members of the State can be used to control the State, as if consulting an old piece of parchment very closely and then yelling "Article 76!" was ever a reasonable response to a corrupt man holding a gun.
Did they have a Constitutional source for their 50,000 troops in Iraq ?
I think that there should be a committee set up which tries to prove that each law is unconstitutional as well.
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