"we the people!"
By WhatsHerName
@PrarieStyle (2486)
United States
March 21, 2009 9:37pm CST
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
What say you? 
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4 responses
@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
22 Mar 09
[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind
~article 10, New Hampshire state constitution.
I say we need a massive national coordinated effort, draft up a declaration, with withdrawing our concent of governence and demanding a reforming of our agent, surround washington D.C. in massive unarmed numbers and present it to them personaly in hand.
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@PrarieStyle (2486)
• United States
22 Mar 09
I say lets do it and I love your avatar!
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@PrarieStyle (2486)
• United States
25 Mar 09
I guess he could care less if we have a second revolution or not. It must be nice...
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@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
22 Mar 09
Nah, I like thinking all those brilliant posts by my friends are actually mine. LOL
I'm in, where do I sign and when do we go?
@mentalward (14690)
• United States
22 Mar 09
I think our government has outgrown the rules set forth in the Constitution. That "We the People" part has been all but forgotten by our government.
With the upper eschelon of our government giving themselves raises whenever they feel like it, taking vacations at the taxpayers' expense, using taxpayers' money however they wish, even when it goes against popular opinion and fogetting that there are so many citizens who are hurting badly right now due to the economy, I say we need to review and revise the Constitution!
The Constitution was written over 200 years ago and look how this country has grown since then! Amendments help, but only if they are enacted and followed.
I'd say us little people here on the low end, the ones the Constitution was written for, are getting little to nothing out of the original document.
We need to re-write it. What say you?
@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
22 Mar 09
No, absolutely not. the problem isn't the constitution, it is that they stopped following it. Nearly every problem this country has right now can be directly atributed to the fact that our government strayed from those limits and outlines. They are in breech of contract. In no other facet of society would we tollerate such a breech, why should this be different.
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@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
22 Mar 09
Mentalward, no offense, but that kind of thinking is what has gotten us this problem in the first place. Xfactor's right, the problem is not with the Constitution, it is with the morons in Washington who violate it repeatedly and without consequence.
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@mentalward (14690)
• United States
23 Mar 09
I believe I have inadvertently worded my response wrong. I, in no way, wish the Constitution to be changed. I meant that our government has "outgrown" the Constitution, meaning that we need to get back to basics, where it all began.
WE have not outgrown the Constitution, the government has. They need to be smacked upside the head to make them realize that they've taken matters into their own hands and "use" the Constitution ("misuse" is more correct here) to their advantage.
What I see these days is that we, as common people, have absolutely no say whatsoever in what our government does or how they go about it. The power has gone to their collective head.
I don't know how to fix things at this point... from what I can see, it has gone too far. When a CEO of a multi-billion dollar a year corporation can have money handed to him simply because he can't afford that new Leer Jet or take a $150,000.00 vacation, and a person like myself who is disabled to the point where she/he cannot work and is turned down by that same government... denied the benefits she or he has EARNED... well, that just shows how very severely our government is screwed up.
Does anyone here have any suggestions on how to fix it? There are so many people quick to criticize but I have yet to hear of any great solutions. I do not trust ANY politician's promises.
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