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Thread ID: 14378 | Posts: 12 | Started: 2004-07-01
2004-07-01 00:37 | User Profile
Question: The Constition and Bill of Rights hang by a thread. What would you do if was suspended tommorow?
2004-07-01 04:58 | User Profile
Likely not the answer you wanted, but I cannot resist...
If it's hanging by a thread today, it's already suspended.
2004-07-01 15:02 | User Profile
Very cogent observation, Nathaniel. It sounds like a joke but it is as true practically as it is semantically.
2004-07-01 17:10 | User Profile
The only difference between now and a formal suspension of the Constitution is that the President would then become dictator-for-life, effectively transferring the unconstitional dictatorship from federal judges to the president.
2004-07-04 21:45 | User Profile
"It's our national interests, it's our national security interests that we have a military tribunal available." - G. Bush, Junior
[img]http://bushspeaks.com/img/bush_burns_constitution.jpg[/img]
2004-07-05 17:55 | User Profile
If the Constitution were suspended tomorrow, the herd would keep on grazing, and there wouldn't be much the rest of us could do.
2004-07-05 18:38 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Hyperion]Question: The Constition and Bill of Rights hang by a thread. What would you do if was suspended tommorow?[/QUOTE]
I would rejoice, because it means that ZOG is admitting that it feels it can't play by the rules it gives lip service to. It'd be the beginning of the end of the perception of the "legitimacy" of this regime. Such an action might even wake up a few of the Freepers, who currently live in a dream world where they think all is well with America and that all is necessary is a little "tweaking" by way of electing a few more pols with "R"s next to their names.
2004-07-06 22:58 | User Profile
I think it's been suspended from the time FDR took over.
2004-07-07 02:44 | User Profile
With regards to the Bill of Rights, other than parts of the 1st Amendment, and the part about quartering solders in your home, what exactly hasn't been suspended already?
2004-07-07 02:56 | User Profile
It's been suspended, null and void since 1861 thanks to Ape Lincoln, soooo...
:yawn:
2004-07-07 17:10 | User Profile
Oh, alright. As a technical matter, power would revert to states and their constitutions (most have them). The governor of each state would be the chief authority. This is assuming the Constitution goes away completely, and the federal government is nullified. Without a Constitution, there is no sovereign authority for the federal government, so if they were acting, it would be illegally or ultra vires.
But yeah, FDR killed that sucker.
2004-07-10 04:53 | User Profile
Exactly how would it be suspended? Who would declair it? Would it have to be by more than one person?