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Offline IsailedawayfromFR

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Indeed! And the people who rendered those decisions should have been impeached for making them!
We have been obviously talking to an individual who has no comprehension of what this country's history or historical basis is.

He/she/it has drunk the koolaid.
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Indeed! And the people who rendered those decisions should have been impeached for making them!

There are many conservative wins based on our Founders's writings. I would hope those judges weren't impeached!
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There are many conservative wins based on our Founders's writings. I would hope those judges weren't impeached!

The Federalist papers were used as a guide.  But it is ultimately the Constitution upon which those decisions were based.
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There are many conservative wins based on our Founders's writings. I would hope those judges weren't impeached!

I'm too tired to look it up, but I think there might even be a 2A ruling based on the testimony of an English grammar specialist.
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The Federalist papers were used as a guide.  But it is ultimately the Constitution upon which those decisions were based.

Absolutely! The justices do use our Founders' writings to base their rulings of modern issues.
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Absolutely! The justices do use our Founders' writings to base their rulings of modern issues.

No, they used the Constitution to base their rulings.  Otherwise, it can't be defined as a Conservative decision.
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No, they used the Constitution to base their rulings.  Otherwise, it can't be defined as a Conservative decision.

Really? I just did a quick search.
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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

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And?

Jefferson's private writing on church and state. Also, a group of Xbox players are currently suing Microsoft. Never expected to see that!
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With all due respect, do you realize that the Declaration of Independence is NOT a governing document?

No.  It's more important than the Constitution.

It's the ESTABLISHING document by which the governing document derives its existence.

Without the Establishing document - there is no governing document that would have been created for the sole purpose of limiting governance to very specific and menial things necessary for a civil society to exist with its liberty intact.

Our rights, nor the existence of liberty comes from any document from men.  It is established along with fundamental rights that a people possess to abolish the forms to which they are grown accustomed which evinces the design to render them under absolute despotism.  A reality we now live in that we lie to ourselves about because mankind are more disposed to suffer evil while evils are sufferable than right themselves.

So all kinds of excuses are made to justify existing under despotism, because such evil is sufferable, and any thoughts or efforts to abolish it are rendered distasteful by those unwilling to risk the thought of liberty.

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty and fart proudly.  - Benjamin Franklin

...Obsta principiis—Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon [the] American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour." - John Adams, February 6, 1775

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No.  It's more important than the Constitution.

It's the ESTABLISHING document by which the governing document derives its existence.

Without the Establishing document - there is no governing document that would have been created for the sole purpose of limiting governance to very specific and menial things necessary for a civil society to exist with its liberty intact.

Our rights, nor the existence of liberty comes from any document from men.  It is established along with fundamental rights that a people possess to abolish the forms to which they are grown accustomed which evinces the design to render them under absolute despotism.  A reality we now live in that we lie to ourselves about because mankind are more disposed to suffer evil while evils are sufferable than right themselves.

So all kinds of excuses are made to justify existing under despotism, because such evil is sufferable, and any thoughts or efforts to abolish it are rendered distasteful by those unwilling to risk the thought of liberty.

 :amen:
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Jefferson's private writing on church and state.

I yield to @Bigun

Indeed! And the people who rendered those decisions should have been impeached for making them!


and to @IsailedawayfromFR

We have been obviously talking to an individual who has no comprehension of what this country's history or historical basis is.
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I yield to @IsailedawayfromFR

Okay then! It's a free country, unless you are a slave!
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Good 'ol Alex Jones weighs in and never fails to push the limits of lunacy.....

The "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday saw aggressive clashes between demonstrators and counter protesters, with an anti-fascist killed after a car ploughed into the group she was demonstrating with at speed. But Jones claimed “leftist Jews” has dressed up as white supremacists to create clashes and discredit the rally.

"I mean, quite frankly, I've been to these events, a lot of the KKK guys with their hats off look like they’re from the cast of Seinfeld,” Trump supporter Jones said on The Alex Jones Show on Sunday.

“Literally they’re just Jewish actors. Nothing against Jews in general, but they are leftists Jews that want to create this clash and they go dress up as Nazis,” he added.
I disagree.  Circle gets the square.

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Okay then! It's a free country, unless you are a slave!

Slavery is unconstitutional.  You should try reading the Constitution when you have some spare time.
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Slavery is unconstitutional.  You should try reading the Constitution when you have some spare time.

Aaaaand we're back to why the CSA states seceded!
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Aaaaand we're back to why the CSA states seceded!

Why they seceded doesn't matter. The point is that they had the right to secede.

Your right to free speech is not conditional upon what you have to say.  Just as a state's right to secede is not conditional upon the correct reason.

And for the record, slavery was constitutional at the time of secession.  It wasn't until the Ted Cruz/John Fremont wing of the GOP was able to force the 13th amendment into the 1864 platform.
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

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"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."

-Ayn Rand-

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Why they seceded doesn't matter. The point is that they had the right to secede.

Your right to free speech is not conditional upon what you have to say.  Just as a state's right to secede is not conditional upon the correct reason.

And for the record, slavery was constitutional at the time of secession.  It wasn't until the Ted Cruz/John Fremont wing of the GOP was able to force the 13th amendment into the 1864 platform.

I posted earlier that I believe states have the right to secede. Their rights to secede end when the basis is the deprivation of the rights of others, namely slaves.
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Good 'ol Alex Jones weighs in and never fails to push the limits of lunacy.....

The "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday saw aggressive clashes between demonstrators and counter protesters, with an anti-fascist killed after a car ploughed into the group she was demonstrating with at speed. But Jones claimed “leftist Jews” has dressed up as white supremacists to create clashes and discredit the rally.

"I mean, quite frankly, I've been to these events, a lot of the KKK guys with their hats off look like they’re from the cast of Seinfeld,” Trump supporter Jones said on The Alex Jones Show on Sunday.

“Literally they’re just Jewish actors. Nothing against Jews in general, but they are leftists Jews that want to create this clash and they go dress up as Nazis,” he added.

Jones channeling Yasser Arafat?

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btw, still waiting for you to cite a Conservative Supreme Court case that was based on something other than these other (non-Constitution) documents you say came from our founding fathers.
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I posted earlier that I believe states have the right to secede. Their rights to secede end when the basis is the deprivation of the rights of others, namely slaves.

No, it doesn't work that way.  You don't get to be the arbiter of that right.  Either they have that right or they do not.

btw, slavery remained legal in Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri after those other eleven states left the Union.  So those eleven states did not secede so that they could legalize slavery.  It was already legal.
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

-Dwight Eisenhower-


"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."

-Ayn Rand-

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Jones channeling Yasser Arafat?

Maybe.  I can recall many occasions where Arafat said in interviews, 'all I want is piss.'  There seemed to be plenty of bottles filled with it flying around on Saturday.
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I disagree.  Circle gets the square.

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    I like the TEXAS secession Threads better, JS.
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Maybe.  I can recall many occasions where said in interviews, 'all I want is piss.'  There seemed to be plenty of bottles filled with it flying around on Saturday.

I just love this because its so much fun to ridicule Jones.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2lhdZx0gJc