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| Of Brilliant Political Foresight and Contemporary Ideological Myopia |
| Tuesday, May 31, 2005 |
| Any serious student of the Constitution can see the wondrous symmetry of the Bill of Rights. Individual amendments work together with the whole to assure the survival of each. Our founders understood that in order for us to have individual rights, each was often contingent upon another guaranteeing the whole.
Contemporary myopic ideologues are often willing to dismiss or even try to change individual amendments because of fear and distrust.
LEFT MYOPICS
Many people of the "left" persuasion are staunch advocates of all amendments except for the second, the right to "keep and bear arms". They are quick to say the 2nd is referring to the military and is not an individual right as a United States citizen, (whilst arguing that the other nine amendments are individual rights).
James Madison said,
"[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
A second rank Founder, Tench Coxe, said about the Second Amendment:
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."
The failure of the ideological left when trying to dismiss this all important amendment is that the guarantee of the other 9 is hinged upon the 2nd. Therefore, liberal myopic ideologues are often torn between retaining their individual rights and advocating the tools of tyrannical fascism.
-disarm the people
-place all arms in the hands of the government military
-police state/Fascism/absolute power becomes much easier
-all other rights die under the hand of tyranny
TOMORROW: RIGHT IDEOLOGUES |
posted by Jack Mercer @ 5/31/2005 05:33:00 AM   |
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