I feel like so many Americans don't understand the blessing that is their constitution (not referring to you or anyone on this board). Your constitution is above government, that's HUGE! So many countries don't have that luxury. Most countries constitutions are below the authority of the government. That's why governments can make so many amendments, laws that contradict, or abolish god-given rights citizens SHOULD have from birth. It's really sickening.
It's also why I will always advocate that my home, Canada, follow thy neighbors to the south, and be rebuilt as a constitutional republic. The type of constitutional republic it was initially designed to be at the start, not the hot mess she's become now with corrupt politicians, monopoly corporations, and ABC agencies destroying it.
Best of luck in doing that, Canada anon, best of luck. I do appreciate our Constitution because it is an enumerated collection of things the government CANNOT do. But you seem to understand our history, so you know that our Constitution is constantly under attack from within, and that the struggle to keep in inviolate is eternal. The anti-Constitutional people in this country are like a cancer, and the price we have to pay to keep our Constitutional rights is eternal vigilance.
One thing to note -- if you haven't noticed this already -- is that our Constitution is framed in a way that we DO NOT derive our rights from the Constitution itself. The Constitution is merely a codification of Natural Rights, which come not from government but from God. The Constitution says that.
It's why the Left has been so feverishly trying to remove God from our culture, for with no God, comes no natural God-given rights. But God is a persistent presence in America.
Any effort to establish a new Constitution in Canada (which I know is a fairly secular nation, but the church still exists there) should be established on rights given to all humans by God. Remove the state from it entirely, and frame the new Constitution around God-given rights being superior to government, and make it a list of things the government CANNOT do.
I wish you all the best, you have a heavy lift ahead of you.
I feel like so many Americans don't understand the blessing that is their constitution (not referring to you or anyone on this board). Your constitution is above government, that's HUGE! So many countries don't have that luxury. Most countries constitutions are below the authority of the government. That's why governments can make so many amendments, laws that contradict, or abolish god-given rights citizens SHOULD have from birth. It's really sickening.
It's also why I will always advocate that my home, Canada, follow thy neighbors to the south, and be rebuilt as a constitutional republic. The type of constitutional republic it was initially designed to be at the start, not the hot mess she's become now with corrupt politicians, monopoly corporations, and ABC agencies destroying it.
Best of luck in doing that, Canada anon, best of luck. I do appreciate our Constitution because it is an enumerated collection of things the government CANNOT do. But you seem to understand our history, so you know that our Constitution is constantly under attack from within, and that the struggle to keep in inviolate is eternal. The anti-Constitutional people in this country are like a cancer, and the price we have to pay to keep our Constitutional rights is eternal vigilance.
One thing to note -- if you haven't noticed this already -- is that our Constitution is framed in a way that we DO NOT derive our rights from the Constitution itself. The Constitution is merely a codification of Natural Rights, which come not from government but from God. The Constitution says that.
It's why the Left has been so feverishly trying to remove God from our culture, for with no God, comes no natural God-given rights. But God is a persistent presence in America.
Any effort to establish a new Constitution in Canada (which I know is a fairly secular nation, but the church still exists there) should be established on rights given to all humans by God. Remove the state from it entirely, and frame the new Constitution around God-given rights being superior to government, and make it a list of things the government CANNOT do.
I wish you all the best, you have a heavy lift ahead of you.