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Individual or Collective Right – A brief history of the 2nd Amendment
Today we are struggling with people who believe the right to keep and bear arms is somehow a collective right, tied to militia membership, and not an individual natural right. This false assumption is based on today’s understanding and rhetoric. We also have the ambiguous 1939 Supreme Court case, U.S. vs. Miller that significantly fails to embrace the founding generation’s intent. The other area we have is the 2nd Amendment’s preamble that some point to as a reason to support the collective, militia tied concept. Yet history and understanding of bearing arms teaches us what is really the intent – the right to keep and bear arms is an individual natural right!
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Intervention is a really sound policy
Just ask any of those who are opposed to the notion the United States should move our foreign policy from one of intervention toward one of non-intervention and you will hear the many reasons why our approach works so well. We have stayed on an interventionist path since the end of World War II and made a real case for intervention even before that, back when President Woodrow Wilson was selling U.S. Citizens on the notion we are a democracy and we should be sharing it around the world.
Michele Bachman has been bragging of her slap down of Ron Paul since the last Fox debate before the Iowa Caucus as he attempted, although not very artfully, to once again talk up the idea of non-intervention. Don’t fall into… Continue reading
The Sum of Good Government
Today we are seeing a struggle between two seemingly different philosophies for governing our society. Political parties are not the divide as members of both major parties share similar views while third party involvement has little impact on the daily government decisions. Bill O’Reilly summed up the choices by stating the choice is self-reliance or entitlements. That’s a very good view of where we are yet those in elected federal office seem to be divided more on the entitlement side of this divide.
Liberty is a key principle in our history. When government involves itself in daily life through entitlements, and a view they must guide economic activity while ‘caring’ for those in need, we must understand the tradeoff is
Overcome your fear of a constitutional convention
It is time all who stand in opposition of a constitutional convention due to fear of it being a runaway toward tyranny consider the reasoning State’s were a part of Article V. Continue reading
