US Marching Down Path Toward a Usurpation of All Liberties
Jul 15, 2016 14:09:09 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Jul 15, 2016 14:09:09 GMT -5
US Is Marching Down the Path Toward a Usurpation of All Liberties
By Kenneth Kopf, July 14, 2016 2:47 PM EDT
“I go further and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do? Why, for instance should it be said that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed? I will not contend that such a provision would confer a regulating power; but it is evident that it would furnish to men disposed to usurp, a plausible pretense for claiming that power. They might urge with a semblance of reason that the Constitution ought not be charged with the absurdity of providing against the abuse of an authority which was not given, and that the provision against restraining the liberty of the press afforded a clear implication that a power to prescribe proper regulations concerning it was intended to be vested in the national government.” - The Federalist Papers, No. 84.
Alexander Hamilton was opposed to the inclusion of a Bill of Rights and made cogent arguments in support of his position to the Convention. His position against inclusion may not have won, but his underlying logic certainly is clearly instructive on what was the original constitutional intent. This intent, however, has been perverted over the years in the very way and by the very forces that he cautioned against – a Legislature and Executive acting out of a greed for expansion of power and an ill intent. Just as he warned regarding the usurpation of the “liberty of the press,” we are marching down the path toward a usurpation of all liberties. The original constitutional intent was to make inviolate the liberties expressed in the Bill of Rights, and to ensure such, the Legislature and the Executive was granted NO power to invade those liberties – this includes the 2nd Amendment. Hamilton believed the Bill of Rights were unnecessary based on the clear constitutional intent that the national government was given NO power to invade those liberties. Unfortunately, Hamilton’s faith in the understanding and character of his fellow man and the national government was grossly wrong...
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By Kenneth Kopf, July 14, 2016 2:47 PM EDT
“I go further and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do? Why, for instance should it be said that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed? I will not contend that such a provision would confer a regulating power; but it is evident that it would furnish to men disposed to usurp, a plausible pretense for claiming that power. They might urge with a semblance of reason that the Constitution ought not be charged with the absurdity of providing against the abuse of an authority which was not given, and that the provision against restraining the liberty of the press afforded a clear implication that a power to prescribe proper regulations concerning it was intended to be vested in the national government.” - The Federalist Papers, No. 84.
Alexander Hamilton was opposed to the inclusion of a Bill of Rights and made cogent arguments in support of his position to the Convention. His position against inclusion may not have won, but his underlying logic certainly is clearly instructive on what was the original constitutional intent. This intent, however, has been perverted over the years in the very way and by the very forces that he cautioned against – a Legislature and Executive acting out of a greed for expansion of power and an ill intent. Just as he warned regarding the usurpation of the “liberty of the press,” we are marching down the path toward a usurpation of all liberties. The original constitutional intent was to make inviolate the liberties expressed in the Bill of Rights, and to ensure such, the Legislature and the Executive was granted NO power to invade those liberties – this includes the 2nd Amendment. Hamilton believed the Bill of Rights were unnecessary based on the clear constitutional intent that the national government was given NO power to invade those liberties. Unfortunately, Hamilton’s faith in the understanding and character of his fellow man and the national government was grossly wrong...
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