Our Liberties We Praise and Our Rights We Maintain
During its First General Assembly in 1847, Iowa’s state legislation adopted Our Liberties We Praise and Our Rights We Maintain as its state motto. The brave people of Iowa who first uttered these words some 173 years ago were probably turning over in their graves during Monday night’s (February 3rd, 2020) Iowa Caucus, and will perhaps continue to do so until we the people quit allowing our lawmakers to pass unconstitutional laws.
Examples of unconstitutional laws in the United States include Roe vs. Wade and Brown vs. the Board of Education. Unconstitutional laws are unconstitutional because our constitution does not support some of the laws our lawmakers have passed; ergo, unconstitutional laws.
Since 2000, there have been some 84 laws declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States of America[1]. Those laws range from Dawson v. Steager, to United States v. United Foods. My list only goes back to 1971 (nearly half a century); this list is extensive and includes nearly 300 unconstitutional laws.
Our first Amendment states Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Our second Amendment states a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. The third Amendment states no Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. The ninth Amendment states the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
My point is, our Constitution speaks specifically to congress, the people, the soldier, and the word citizen does not appear in the constitution re: specific entitlements or rights, our founding fathers chose instead to use such vocabulary as people or the people. So, perhaps an argument can be made supporting the fact that all men are created equal. It is not until Article. IV. Section. 2 that we even come close to constitutional guarantees for citizens. The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. Funnily enough, I can find no mention of illegals anywhere in our constitution. I wonder, who was that first person that gave away Privileges and Immunities of Citizens to illegals?
The Faculty of Reason, The Wisdom of Experience
Earlier, we talked a little about examples of Unconstitutional Laws; a few things come immediately to mind – included are:
· what makes a law unconstitutional is the Constitution does not support the law,
· the constitution does not require a check and balance stipulating that each statute or bill passed into law must not violate conditions laid down in the constitution, and
· we the people are not involved enough to know what bills are getting passed.
So, in direct response to each bullet above, we the people must:
· read and learn the constitution and learn what can and can NOT be done; get involved with your local government and let them know you are smart enough that our government can no longer pull the wool over our eyes and pass unconstitutional laws,
· demand an amendment that specifically states checks and balances to prevent unconstitutional laws, and
· learn our constitution and teach it to your children, one right denied because of unconstitutional laws is a right you may never get back.
You are perhaps familiar with the prudent-person rule (or the "prudent man rule"). A prudent person is an individual who uses good judgment or common sense to handle practical matters. I suggest the prudent person rule as an example because I think (generally speaking) most people act with or show care and thought for the future.
One thing separating human beings from all other species is an ability to learn from our mistakes - an ability to rationalize and reason; we have an ability to think our actions through prior to committing to those actions. Given the prudent person rule and the fact that human beings can rationalize and reason; humans learn from our mistakes. Who do you think was the first person that thought giving away millions of dollars annually to people that are here in our country illegally was a good idea? And, why after giving away all that money for so long do we continue to throw our money away?
CHARITY STARTS AT HOME
Do you remember when our President attempted to defund sanctuary communities? That got shot down for reasons that include sanctuary communities have statutes (unconstitutional) giving them authority to declare their sanctuary status and the President had no authority to override those illegal statutes. And, the liberal government that protects sanctuary status is the same one that says Virginia cannot have sanctuary communities that protect the right of the people to keep and bear Arms. How can this be rationalized?
We have an immigration and naturalization law, that law is The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Celler Act, also known as the Immigration Act of 1965. We have had immigration and naturalization laws in one form or another since August 3, 1882. We need to enforce and follow those laws and retake our country from those that are here illegally. We need to fight to reverse this trend of passing into law that which is not supported by our constitution.
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