You also need to remember that the Constitution is a list of restrictions on GOVERNMENT, not on citizens. The First Amendment says CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW... The Second Amendment says "THE RIGHT... SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED." See the difference? The first tells congress it can't do something. The Second says NOBODY can do something.

let me clear up your confusion for you. THE RIGHT... SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. There is no such thing as a "reasonable" gun law, they are ALL unconstitutional.

The Constitution is just a piece of paper. The forces which gave the ideas on that paper life, are not, as you claim, "endangered", they are extinct. The federal government was never and can never be held to it's Constitutional role simply by passing a law (the Constitution). The forces created by that document were not simply obeying orders, they were standing up for their own self interests, which were pitted against each other to make REAL balance, REAL checks on power. Removing the representation of the states was the end of that. Nothing but fear of being caught was then in the way of inevitable federal growth. If you want a Republic again, you have to put back the force that worked against runaway federal government. Repeal 17.

The Constitution is just a piece of paper. The forces which gave the ideas on that paper life, are not, as you claim, "endangered", they are extinct. The federal government was never and can never be held to it's Constitutional role simply by passing a law (the Constitution). The forces created by that document were not simply obeying orders, they were standing up for their own self interests, which were pitted against each other to make REAL balance, REAL checks on power. Removing the representation of the states was the end of that. Nothing but fear of being caught was then in the way of inevitable federal growth. If you want a Republic again, you have to put back the force that worked against runaway federal government. Repeal 17.

Amen. They didn't even need the h-o-m-o-s to push them to this actually. Government stopped defending marriage ages ago, when they stopped prosecuting adultery, so they haven't had the right to tax and license it since then, at least.

the words "conservative" and "liberal" have lost any meaning they may have had. I want the original Constitution and Bill of Rights used for it's intended purpose. If the words are not there, then you don't get to do it. I suppose if you must call me something then, I'd be a Constitutionalist.

if you want to stay poor, then no, no party should be interested in your input. You make the same mistake everybody else does, believing the lie: "... Instead, Republicans must convince the electorate that they are just as concerned about the plight of the poor and downtrodden as Progressives,..." the socialists who call themselves "progressive" are not "concerned" about the "plight" of anybody but their own elections. THERE IS NOBODY WHO CARES ABOUT YOUR PLIGHT more than you do, and that is as it should be. YOU NEED THE FREEDOM TO CORRECT YOUR SITUATION. Nobody else can or should do it for you (if you are incapacitated then your family, friends and church are there for the purpose). Charity can not be done by government.

get your kids out of public 'education' now! This is the second most evil scheme going in this country. Where else could a judge consider himself to have the authority to tell a child, "here you shall not pray". Where else could the statists have the gall to indoctrinate your kids in communism and islam, while perverting their own country's history and meaning. What a disaster for liberty this horrible scheme has been for America.

Please note the key to beginning to slow and stop and reverse the failure of America. If we do not restore the one functional and motivated force against runaway federal government, there can be no hope. Restore the states as entities by restoring their representation. Repeal the 17th Amendment. It won't fix anything, but it makes it possible to start fixing things. Think about it. This is the key.

if you'd like to see this happen, and any of the other things that could start turning around the awful decline of this once-great former republic, then first you must repeal the 17th Amendment, restoring the only functioning check on runaway federal government.

SO BURN THEM ALL! right? azhole.