Re: [Leica] Totally OT: Buzz's Know-Nothing Tax Rant

["Bryan Caldwell" <bcaldwell@softcom.net>]

>>Not one word of the Constitution has changed in over 200 years. <<

Simply not true. The Constitution as originally adopted called for state
legislatures to elect Senators - changed in 1913; it provided that Congress
could not prohibit the imporation of slaves - changed; it provided for a
method of Presidential and Vice Presidential election that has been changed;
it contained the fugitive-slave clause - eliminated in 1865; and it
prohibited amendments that would prohibit slavery prior to 1808. All of
these have been specific changes to the text - not matters of
interpretation - of the originally adopted constitution.

Check your facts.

Bryan


- ----- Original Message -----
From: <DonjR43198@aol.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Totally OT: Buzz's Know-Nothing Tax Rant


> In a message dated 12/22/99 10:00:57 AM Central Standard Time,
> TEAShea@aol.com writes:
>
> << This is true.  The Constitution is a living documents - not a dead,
> lifeless
>  piece of paper.  It will probably continue to change through the
>  interpretations of the Supreme Court as our country changes.  It is a
good
>  thing.  It works.
>
>  Tom Shea
>   >>
> Fourth graders can do a better job interpreting the Constitution than the
> liberal judges who just substitute their Marxist philosophy for commonly
> understood words.  Marxism and the Constitution are in direct
contradiction
> to each other so the liberals must resort to selling the gullible public
that
> the Constitution is a "living" document that is subject to being rewritten
by
> lifetime appointed federal judges who answer to absolutely no one.  It is
> just a liberal ploy that the Constitution is a "living" document.  Not one
> word of the Constitution has changed in over 200 years.  If it is to be
> changed, just amend it by letting the people it governs vote for whatever
> changes they deem are necessary.  Probably the first thing to go would be
the
> first ten amendments known as the "Bill of Rights."  There is absolutely
> nothing in the Constitution that requires honest hard working people to
pay
> the huge criminal defense bills that busted crooks ring up.  There is
nothing
> in the Constitution that requires the police to tell crooks they do not
have
> to answer any questions asked by the police.  The list goes on and on.
This
> liberal assault on the Constitution began during the Roosevelt years and
gets
> worse with each passing year.
>
> Of course, the Federal income tax was held unconstitutional until it was
> amended by the people who were told it would never rise above 2% of their
> income.
>
> Buzz was right on.
>