Which Rights simply don't matter anymore?

and ..... who will lead the charge? who will muster the revolutionary horde into troops fit to fight tyranny.

 

Whew! I went through the Constitution and the Bill of Rights this morning...

Overall I found them to be prioritized correctly in my opinion.
I would keep the 1st Amendment where it is relative to the 2nd but I do understand the argument of the 2nd protecting all the Amendments.

I did find some that personally I would change but none that I would delete.

For example, under the Constitution
Section 2, #2 "No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have...be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen." I would changed to "Inhabitant of that State for a minimum of five years..." And, Section 3, #3
"No Person shall be a Senator ...be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen."
Changed to "Inhabitant of that State for a minimum of seven years..."
Stops political animals like HC and McCain from simply moving to a state to immediately pick up a Senatorship which they both did.

There are a few other ones I would change wording also in the Constitution...but not so important.

Bill or Rights - Amendments
Article [II] (Amendment 2 - Bearing Arms)
"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."
Should be change to simply "The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Period.

Article XIV (Amendment 14 - Rights Guaranteed: Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process, and Equal Protection)
1: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
Needs to be rework to something like, "All persons born in the United States require one parent being of American citizenship...are citizens of the United States" This is EXACTLY how it works overseas and it works well - meaning - if I have a child with a woman that is NOT an American citizen but she is my wife, I can go to the American Embassy declared the child is mine and the child will receive an American birth certificate and is an American citizen. It works like this in numerous countries also.

"Article XVI (Amendment 16 - Income Tax)
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
Needs to be reworked with more definitive 'sources derived' but more importantly limitation of the percentage of tax that can be taken.

Article [XIX] (Amendment 19 - Women's Suffrage Rights)
"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."
This could be edited and replaced with a "sex, religious creed, or race..." or perhaps replaced with a new Amendment.

"Amendment XXII (Amendment 22 - Presidential Tenure)
1: No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice..."
I question the validity of this amendment since 'term limits' of Senators and Congressmen have been proven to be against the law. I believe Washington State's Senator Tom Foley took the people of the state to court when they voted for term limits and he won...and continued on for years.

 

Liberty and life. In the Declaration of Independence they put liberty first...but I am of the Patrick Henry school where death is preferable to slavery.

I don't use the Bill of Rights as a guide because the Bill of Rights doesn't grant rights..it merely attempts to enumerate and guarantee some of those unalienable human rights that fall under life and liberty. I don't include property or happiness because I believe they also fall under life and liberty.

 

If anybody changes the Bill of Rights, and only under this condition, it could be written in terms that modern stupidity can understand. The NEW 2nd amendment...

"Since the founding of this great nation from under the tyranny of the British crown, all citizens have a right and duty to protect themselves. This protection includes protection from boredom, protection from criminal elements, protection from starvation and protection from a tyrannical government. In order for all American citizens to protect themselves in this manner, they shall have the right to own as many firearms of whichever type they feel is necessary to help with their protection. The type can be single shot, semi-automatic or automatic. The capacity of the magazine, the color nor the attachments on the firearms will not be hindered. The carry of these firearms, whether concealed or openly carried, will not be hindered. This right can never be strangled or hampered by regulation, restrictive taxation or anybody's feelings on the matter.

Protection from Boredom allows that any American citizen can at their leisure, use firearms in sporting events such as target practice, plinking, skeet shooting, etc.

Protection from Starvation allows that hunters can search out game animals and take game animals for the feeding of American citizens.

Protection from Criminal Elements allows that all American citizens have the right to safety from those that would cause them bodily harm whether it be in the privacy of their home, the capacity of their vehicle, on their owned property or in a public setting.

Protection from Tyrannical Government allows that the American citizens have a right and a duty to act in the best interests of the country, the weaker and in the cause of freedom. If in such a case, the government becomes oppressive, out of control and does show that they do not have the best interests of the citizenry at heart, it is every citizens duty to eliminate this tyranny and bring the government back under the control of the American citizen.

These rights as explained shall not be infringed or stifled in any shape, form or fashion. These rights as explained are given by the Creator that all mankind shall be free."

Just my two cents.

 

Which rights?

1st Amend - the TV/radio/"news"papers had a 100% lock. Remember when Walter Cronkite said 'he only told the sheeple what he, and his masters, wanted the sheeple to know and no more' when asked how he reported the news. Of course if you go look, he was a communist party member too.and took his orders from... well I'll let you go look that one up, I get tired of being called names for pointing this stuff out. Think talk radio is any better? Listen to "Coast to Coast", they refuse to talk about ANY substantive issue and will cut the caller off with "We don't talk about - Obummer/2nd am/1amend/3 amend/4amend/police brutality/corrupt police/corrupt politicos/Jade Helm/Christianity (Casper cookies, ghosts, witches, extremely odd cults, aliens, UFOs are all OK however).

Think Rush or the other talk show hosts are going to tell you the truth either? You really need to pay more attention. NOTHING has changed as far as what you need a license for. If you need a license, they tell you what you can say, AND what you can't. That is why the powers that be want to get rid of the net, or control it. If it wasn't for cat videos they would ban it tomorrow but the sheeple would hunt them down.

You DO know about the "Silk Road" don't you? Try looking that up sometime for fun.

2nd Amend - everyone hates this except the sheeple. Look at the sheeple in EVERY state, they want MORE! Even Iowa was dragged kicking and screaming into the mid-1900s when they made silencers legal this year. Long way to go before it was like it was back in the 1950s Iowa when stuff was legal, but a start. ALL politicos in ALL states hate it. Hmmmm... wonder why?!

5th - if I hear Billary say "I plead the fifth/I don't remember/what's it matter anyway?" one more time I might.... Well I plead the 5th!

 

IMHO our FORM of Gov is possibly the best thus far put together by humanity...... and thinkin we should keep it....

if ya wanna fix it then I'm thinkin.... it's probably best to replace the PEOPLE/PARTIES that are currently running it?

Hopefully by voting.........

BTW has anyone else notice just how many of the current professional politicians for life are talkin bout moving to or joining a third party?

 

Fix it by voting? HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, wait, that was sarcasm wasn't it?

Look at the current election. Bernie won Iowa, they gave it to Hillary. Hillary has enough super delegates already so she can not lose even if Bernie wins every state.

Trump is hated by everyone but the voters. Jeb spent how many millions, and never got above 3% of the vote? Why are the other candidates still in if they have absolutely no chance of getting anywhere near third, or even fourth place (Trump has 1 and 2 locked up) with delegates? So they can force a caucus run off and throw it to Jeb who was promised the election.

Other party candidates? WHAT other candidates? Ever see a TV show with any of them? Oh, wait, TV, radio and "news"papers never reported there were any and never report on any. Wonder why?

Tell me again why we can vote our way out of this? If voting mattered, they wouldn't let the sheeple do it.

 

For more on Demonrat voting practices, read this:

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  Gov. won't swear-in state senator
• Straight line demonrat party vote instead of what is best for state. The demonrats don't care, with either Bernie or Billary as prez we are SOL anyway so why sweat it.

 

Please read the OP.