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Bill of Rights added to Constitution to limit government power
In keeping with the 1998 Constitution Day statute (36 US Code $106), presidents since then have made proclamations on or near September 17. These proclamations include statements encouraging federal, state, and local officials to engage in civics programs to commemorate the signing of the Constitution.
These messages are being sent to encourage educational activities initiated not only by governing officials, but by church leaders, educators and other citizens as well. This one focuses on The Pledge of Allegiance and the Bill of Rights. Included in this email from Advocates for Vermont is a “WE the People” handbill you can print and distribute.
Today is Constitution Day – but the whole week is Constitution week and the whole season before elections should remind us all these foundations are preciously laid and paid for with blood, sweat and tears.
Who Wrote the Bill of Rights?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. James Madison wrote the amendments as a solution to limit government power and protect individual liberties through the Constitution. For example, the Founders saw the ability to speak and worship freely as a natural right protected by the First Amendment. Congress is prohibited from making laws establishing religion or abridging freedom of speech. The Fourth Amendment safeguards citizens’ right to be free from unreasonable government intrusion in their homes through the requirement of a warrant.
Why was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution?
The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution because the Constitution lacked limits on government power. Federalists advocated for a strong national government. They believed the people and states automatically kept any powers not given to the federal government. Anti-Federalists wanted power to remain with state and local governments and favored a bill of rights to safeguard individual liberty.
Madison, then a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, altered the Constitution’s text where he thought appropriate. However, several representatives, led by Roger Sherman, objected, saying that Congress had no authority to change the wording of the Constitution. Therefore, Madison’s changes were presented as a list of amendments that would follow Article VII.
When was the Bill of Rights Ratified?
The House approved 17 amendments. Of these, the Senate approved 12, which were sent to the states for approval in August 1789. Ten amendments were approved (or ratified). Virginia’s legislature was the final state legislature to ratify the amendments, approving them on December 15, 1791.
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According to the Liberal Socialists Dems, the Constitution and Bill of Rights don’t exist. Just observe the down fall since Dems took power and want to keep it. So many Court cases challenging them on their wanton violations of these documents that they took an oath to. Dems want the Liberal Courts to decide in their favor. The Lib female judges in SCOTUS decide against the documents in constant decisions. The last female Justus couldn’t define what a female was. Biden’s criteria for such a person is being a black woman. What a wonderful situation. Bring on the UN, WHO and others that want to ruin the US and dissolve these documents.
The UN, WHO, and their ilk need to be dissolved.
Pause for a moment and think of all the situations we could face if we didn’t have our Constitutional Rights. What stories have you heard from other countries that would not have happened in the America we have known?
It is sad state of affairs to see the Vermont Supreme Court siding with a Vermont school that gave them the right to vaccinate a child. John Klar has done well to share the story in an interview with Children’s Health Defense that was released today on Constitution Day.
It is time to reflect on the importance of these cherished freedoms and make certain election candidates are well scrutinized for upholding our foundational freedoms.
It is time to pray for God’s Blessings continue to uphold America’s freedoms!
It has always been my thought that the constitution should be taught in every school in the USA starting in elementary school with age-appropriate materials. Our country has been so dumbed down by the liberal education system that even grown adults commenting on social media platforms have no idea how the government works or the meaning of The Bill of Rights and how it restricts the government from ruling over us just because it is the all-powerful government.
I studied the constitution in college and knew then that we were in trouble due to the government’s power to create bureaucracies that are unconstitutional as in the Dept. of Education and so many more to make the government our overlords instead of the states having power closer to the people. Remember “We the People”, mentioned in the Declaration of Independence?
While the left rants about saving the democracy, they have done everything in their power to twist its textual meanings of the constitution and have removed it from our schools as they have with the Pledge of Allegiance and the Ten Commandments from the Bible.
I am not a practicing religious person, but the 10 commandments are a road map on civility, something truly lacking in our society today. We need to turn our country toward the founding documents, not away from them. Look how sick our society is now. Have progressive ideologies and policies brought us to the brink of total chaos? I think they have, and true liberals should too. God forbid that if this country enters into another civil war, it will be a war of civil order fighting against a free for all government induced chaos and a lack of morals and civility occurring now all over America.
The constitution as written as our road map and always has been, but we have allowed our governments federal and state to veer off that road. A nation of ignorant citizens is a danger to us all as are educated fools. Our time to change course is rapidly disappearing. It’s something to think about, long and hard. We need to reign in our out-of-control governments both here and in DC and return this country to the people. Politicians backed by powerful lobbyists with bags of cash and a lying corrupt media owned by powerful corporations have replaced our representative government with the mess created by them as they always say elect us again and we will fix it. We are all suckers if we believe that anymore. As they used to say, “Throw the Bums out”. Our constitutional rights and our lives depend on it. Change starts only after we admit there is a problem. That time has come.
From the Patriot Post, links to all the 85 Federalists Papers that were used to convince the importance of the Constitution written by Madison, Hamilton (before being killed in a duel with Aaron Burr) and Jay. There are links to all, you might want to save.
The PP Federalist article link
https://patriotpost.us/documents/299 This web site is very good, I get their emails
Quoting:
“The Constitutional Convention was a heated affair, with great and learned debate about how the new constitution should be structured. Once drafted, at least nine state legislatures had to ratify it. Madison, Hamilton, and Jay, in an effort to persuade the voters of New York and other states of the importance of ratification, wrote a series of papers explaining and defending the new constitution.
To this day, The Federalist Papers, written under the pseudonym “Publius,” remain the most definitive resource for legal and historic scholars in search of the original intent of our Constitution.”
I have copied all of them and read them when needed for info.
A footnote: I travel between VT and LA (lower Alabama as the locals label it) near Pensacola, 1600 miles on I-81 mostly over 50 times since 2021. In Virginia there’s a James Madison University in Harrisonburg. I-81 seems to split the univ being on both sides of the interstate. A beautiful place, immaculate. On one side is their Football stadium, quite a sight. Here’s their web site:
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/james-madison-university-3721
Also shows the costs and enrollment over 20,000. Having a university named after a person, Madison must hve been highly respected. I’ve seen some of their football games on TV. So they mix with the biggies.
Hmmm, all I ever hear politicians talking about is our “democracy”, WHICH WE DON’T HAVE! Too bad they are all so willfully ignorant and the majority (it seems) of the population is too, as they keep getting elected. 😒