LETTER: Old-fashioned way may not be so bad

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To the Editor:

Recently, it was suggested that to read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as declarations of absolutes is being “old-fashioned and old-school.” The critics, including President Obama, refer to the documents as products of a group of rich, stuffed-shirt, elitist, white slaveholders with the documents having little relevance to today’s progressive agenda.

When asked how long the Republican form of government would prevail, a stuffed shirt commented that historically, governments lasted about 200 years until the elected officials had transferred complete power from the people onto themselves and had discovered how to get their hands into the public trough. Some of the most prominent vehicles used to invade the public trough and to transfer the power are: the Sixteenth Amendment, ratified on Feb. 3, 1913, instituting the income tax to confiscate the money, and utilizing earmarks, bailouts and stimulus money for constituent payoffs to abduct the power.

Oh, for the old-fashioned, old-school of government, of the people, by the people, for the people, under God, that currently has perished through the tyrannical cabal of President Obama, Sen. Reid and 32 Czars utilizing unconstitutional executive orders and administrative rules, or legislative stonewalling or suppression.

Reasoning would dictate that James Madison, the main architect of the Constitution, who is considered to be among one of the greatest scholars of the history of leagues, ancient and modern, giving him a distinct insight into a government of the people, by the people, for the people; and among one of the greatest teachers of the law and the Constitution, while he was not a trained lawyer, would carry much more weight in interpreting the Constitution than a person who bases his interpretation of the Constitution on a few failed attempts at community organizing.

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