Did We Forget Our Constitution?

We the People......

Yesterday provided me with a very interesting night as one of my brothers came over for a visit. This brother is 4 years older than me and extremely passionate about politics and current events. You cannot talk to him without him asking you if you heard the news about this politician saying this or that or and I quote: “Can you believe what our communist President wants to do now?”  He gets very vocal and animated when he talks and if you don’t know him you would think he is a lunatic. He would probably scare most people when he gets all revved up. Needless to say by the aforementioned quote, my brother is a “little” right-leaning with his political views. What makes this interesting you might ask? Nothing other than the fact that you may “get a kick” out of the way he talks, gets red and flails his hands. However when you add my very liberal thinking wife to the conversation, things get very interesting.

The conversation last night wasn’t the usual in which my brother yells and screams and my wife calls him a nut and neither one cannot believe the things the other is saying. Last night was a little calmer. I don’t disagree with most of my brother’s views which also makes it interesting when the wife and I discuss politics but I am not as passionate about politics as he is so I just let him and my wife duke it out because I am entertained. I understand everything my brother says but sometimes his emotions take over then my wife’s emotions react to his, causing someone to say something outlandish but not last night. Last night by brother was using our Constitution to get his point across to my wife. He was quoting texts from it and my wife didn’t believe what he was saying. So being the uber-nerd that I am, I went to the US National Archives website to read the Constitution as the last time I read it was when I was in high school.

I am not going to bore you with my political beliefs and ideology but I think everyone needs to read our Constitution the way in which it was written. I really do feel that many people think that certain things are written in the Constitution that aren’t there or have an opinion of meaning based on what they heard from other people or the media, be it a liberal or conservative media. I completely forgot that our Constitution stated that Senators were originally appointed and not elected and that the First Amendment does not guarantee a separation between church and state (which was the topic discussed by my brother and wife) but it rather stated, in short that the Federal Government will not make a law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibit the religious practices thereof. The Tenth Amendment threw me for a loop. The Tenth Amendment basically states that powers not mentioned in the Constitution for the United States or not prohibited by it for the states are left up to the states and/or the people to decide.

I am not finished reading all of the Amendments but I am enthralled, not only by the Constitution but “The Bill of Rights”. I urge everyone to read a transcript of the Constitution as it may enlighten you. After all, there is no other document in the world like it!

The Constitution of the United States. Go ahead….click the link

The Bill of Rights