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The Constitution and President Obama
The following article was written by Ron DeSantis, a local attorney and author of Dreams From Our Founding Fathers: First Principles in the Age of Obama. He will be speaking at the Westside Chapter of the First Coast Tea Party on Monday, September 26th at 6:00 PM. For more information about this meeting, go to: http://www.fctpcommunity.org/events/westside-community-group-4
What is a progressive like Barack Obama to do on Constitution Day?
As originally articulated by the likes of Woodrow Wilson during the early 20th century, progressivism rejected the Constitution's focus on individual liberty and held the Founding Fathers in contempt.
Wilson even complained that "divine right of kings never ran a more prosperous course than did this unquestioned prerogative of the Constitution to receive universal homage." And he boasted about being among the first Americans to "entertain any serious doubts about the superiority of our own institutions as compared with the systems of Europe" and "to think of remodelling the administrative machinery of the federal government."
Wilson and his progressive allies wanted to weaken the Constitution's protections against centralized power and facilitate government planning by progressive experts. They didn't believe in American exceptionalism and looked to statist, bureaucratic governments throughout Europe as models for reform.
In many ways, Obama is Wilson's kindred spirit.
Like Wilson, Obama is not a fan of the Constitution's basic design. In his Farewell Address, George Washington celebrated the Constitution's separation of powers as being absolutely necessary for the maintenance of a free society, yet Obama has complained about this important constitutional feature. During the health care debate, he said he would like nothing more than to bypass Congress and enact "some very elegant, you know, academically approved approach to health care." At a conference of liberal Hispanics, he pointed out one way to grant amnesty was to "bypass Congress and change the laws on my own," admitting that "the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting, I promise you."
Obama's impatience with the Constitution's design stems, in part, from the fact that he views the document as defective. The Constitution, he has said, "reflects some deep flaws in American culture." Obama has derided the Constitution as "charter of negative liberties" that restricts government's authority but that does not mandate that the federal government redistribute wealth—something which Obama has dedicated his professional life to achieving.
He has even criticized the famously liberal Warren Court for being insufficiently radical because it “never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.” More specifically, he lamented that the Warren Court “didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution.”
Since in office, Obama has been quite willing to go where even the Warren Court would not. His prized ObamaCare law obliterates any discernible limitations to the power of the federal government. ObamaCare represents one of the “gradual innovations of an unlimited government,” which is something that Founding Fathers like James Madison feared.
If ObamaCare was the only policy that Obama enacted, it would represent more damage to the Constitution that has been done by virtually any previous president. Obama, though, has not limited his damage to ObamaCare. He has relied on unaccountable czars to implement his polices, implemented a de facto amnesty plan by executive fiat, and scuttled the rule of law in favor of the United Auto workers during the Chrysler and GM bankruptcies—to name just a few of his transgressions.
The Founders knew that elected officials would not always be faithful to the text, history and structure of the Constitution. Accordingly, they advised citizens to obtain a “remedy” through “the election of more faithful representatives,” who can “annul the acts of the usurpers.”
Barack Obama may, consistent with the vision of the Founders, receive his electoral comeuppance in November of 2012. This will provide an opportunity to reverse his destructive policies and foster a renewed faithfulness to the Constitution.
In the meantime, Constitution Day seems to be an appropriate time for Obama to reflect on the damage he has done.
--Ron DeSantis is the author of Dreams From Our Founding Fathers: First Principles in the Age of Obama
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Comment by DURWIN WALTER DAVIS on September 20, 2011 at 12:37pm
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@Roma and Tom; I hope you enjoyed it as much as I. I don't normally "post" these addresses, but I thought this was special, timely and subjective. DWD.
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Enjoy this substantive "CARTOON" of 1948 and think about our "progression"
http://godfatherpolitics.com/1006/63-year-old-cartoon-depicts-ameri...
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A KUDO FOR NOBAMA!!! CONGRATULATIONS, YOU NEW "JOBS BILL" WILL ONLY COST THE TAXPAYER OF THE USA $235K+ PER JOB. THAT IS QUITE THE FEAT FROM THE COST (AS REPORTED BY DEPT. LABOR & ENERGY) OF YOU LAST "STIMULIS" AS $5,000,000 PER JOB. KEEP GOING... I THINK I SEE THE WALL COMING PRETTY QUICKLY.
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RECENT CZECH NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL. SUCCINCTLY SEZ IT FOR ME...
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America .. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president."
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Bunny I googled him and came up with an article in newsmax with an interview he gave on the subject in which he stated that he has been an advocate of government mandated heath insurance sense 1996. He also stated that he was in agreement with the health care plan that Romney implemented in Mass. And that he backed President Obamas plan for individual healthcare mandates.
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Billie; I am convinced there is a DIRECT ancestral trace from Nobama's mommie to woody wilson. I don't see where Nobama has done anything criminally wrong against the constitution. Our entire legislative delegation should be fired for delegating their responsibilities to the executive department. This is why no member of our federal legislature has ever fought to defund these cabinet posts and destroy their charters. Not one has fought to repeal the 16th Amendment. It was criminally inducted to relieve the Wall Street Bankers. (Does the name J.P. MORGAN ring a bell?) Everyone clamours about creation of the federal reserve; the fed is miniscule in the damage wrought by "personal income tax". This was a pet project of your host, Woody Wilson and his Wall Street Gang. What about the $200 million he authorized to give his newly recognized bolshevik friends to fund their colapsing effort? Does the title Arab Spring being any similar current events to mind? This isn't the first time the "progressives" have worked their evil and by the tone of things around the campuses, there's more to come. Thanx for bringing this WOODY to the forefront.
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There are truely only three constitutional candidates running for the GOP ticket Micheal Bachmann, Ron Paul, and Herman Cain the rest are Rinos or elitist. Bachmann is a smart woman if surrounded by aTea Party cabinet could govern very affectively and I think if the Tea Party will get behind her she can beat Obama. Ron Paul is a little extreme I will admit but with a Tea Party congress and senate to hold him in check on some of his policies could also govern effectively. Herman Cain has a impressive record as a CEO and a problem solver he is a true patriot and has a plan to impliment the fair tax and do away with the IRS over a period of time. Any one of these candidates can beat Obama if the Tea party will get behind one and stay with them.
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Mr. Upshaw, I must agree with you, I certainly have a problem with this. Has there been further comment by Gingrich on this? I didn't find any so far. This would certainly knock him out of the box.
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Patricia and Bunny on May the 15 of this year Newt Gingrich advocated that he backs the individual mandates called for in the Oboma healthcare bill. That is the very part of the bill that the courts are battling over being constitutional. I personally have a problem with the whole Oboma plan and anyone that agrees with any of his plan.
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Comment by Ronald G. Johns on September 18, 2011 at 6:08pm
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Bonnie and I will be going to the FLCPAC convention in Orlando on Friday September 23rd. If anyone else going from this area we would love to meet up with you.
Ronald
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