#284 Trashing a Treasure

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#284 Trashing a Treasure

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During this program, I will quote from the article "Nation Writer Labels the Constitution 'Trash'" by Isaac Schorr, which appeared in National Review on March 4, 2022. The Nation is, quoting their website, "principled and progressive" and "empowers readers to fight for justice and equality for all" in order "to bring about a more democratic and equitable world." To paraphrase: The Nation is a left-wing, globalist, socialist, and anti-Biblical periodical that works tirelessly for the destruction of our God-given Constitutional liberties by focusing on, and distorting, current issues in order to undermine our social fabric and thus destabilize our country so that most of our citizens will be impoverished and subjugated. National Review is a neo-con globalist periodical, so I don't necessarily agree with everything that appears in that publication. "Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, labeled the Constitution "trash" in an appearance on ABC's The View on Friday." "Appearing on the program to promote his new book, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution, Mystal was asked by co-host Ana Navarro-Cárdenas if the Constitution "is a living document," or a "sacred document." Mystal responded by declaring that "it's certainly not sacred, all right, let's start there. The Constitution is kind of trash." " The US Constitution is a living document in the sense that it is still the Supreme Law of the Land, per Article VI of the Constitution itself: "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding." It is also a "living document" in the sense that it can be amended, as stated in Article V of the Constitution itself: "The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments." The second method is called the Convention of States, about which I will comment if I have time. Judges do not amend the Constitution but are bound to adhere to it. Several times the Supreme Court has modified the Constitution, such as the banishment of prayer and Bible reading from public schools and the promotion of sodomy and all forms of sexual depravity. Congress and the president should have ignored these rulings and removed the judges who usurped the position of the legislature by legislating from the bench. Per Article I of the US Constitution, all legislative powers are vested in the congress; per Article III of the US Constitution, judges can be removed from office if they don't exhibit "good behavior." Usurping the legislative powers of congress is definitely not "good behavior." The US Constitution is not a sacred document, but the principles of the US Constitution are Biblical and thus are sacred, universal, and eternal. " "It was written by slavers and colonists and white people who were willing to make deals with slavers and colonists. They didn't ask anybody that looked like me what they thought about the Constitution," continued Mystal, who proceeded to do an impression of a 18th century slave weighing in on the document." " It's true that many of the authors of the US Constitution owned slaves, but many were vehemently opposed to slavery, such as Ben Franklin and John Adams. One delegate to the Constitutional Convention was George Mason of Virginia. He objected to the Constitution and refused to sign it because he felt that it did not provide protection for the individual citizen and gave the federal government ill-defined and over-zealous powers. His objections helped the incorporation of the Bill of Rights as the first ten amendments to the US Constitution. In addition, George Mason, although he owned slaves, opposed the US Constitution because it allowed the slave trade to continue until 1808. George Mason said that "slavery brings the judgment of God down upon a nation." Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence but was not present at the Constitutional Convention because he was the ambassador to France at the time. His first draft of the Declaration of Independence abolished slavery, which at the time was legal in the British Empire. Unfortunately, the delegates from South Carolina and Georgia would have never signed the Declaration of Independence if slavery abolition remained in the text. The colonies needed a united front against Great Britain, so Thomas Jefferson removed from the Declaration of Independence the portion calling for slavery's abolition. Mr. Mystal's opposition to slavery is somewhat ironic, since he and his ...

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