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And Barack Obama is leading the way!
Time to vote out EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT IN 2012!
NObama in NOvember!
Obama=wants to change the Constitution
Feb 7, 2012 | Posted by: Politix Staff Writer
U.S. Constitution Losing Appeal Worldwide
Topix Staff Feature
The New York Times reports the unenviable fact that the United States Constitution has ceased to be, well, the envy of the world according to a new study. While the first three decades that followed World War 2 were a high watermark for America's founding document abroad, with foreign nations eager to adopt its tenets for their own constitutions, in the years since its influence has waned:
“Among the world’s democracies,” Professors Law and Versteeg concluded, “constitutional similarity to the United States has clearly gone into free fall. Over the 1960s and 1970s, democratic constitutions as a whole became more similar to the U.S. Constitution, only to reverse course in the 1980s and 1990s.”The U.S. is no longer seen to be the trendsetter in the "constitutional marketplace" according to David S. Law, one of the study's authors. Why? Because the U.S. Constitution guarantees a relatively limited number of rights, while increasingly admired countries like Canada offer a much longer list. As the New York Times' Adam Liptak puts it:
The Constitution is out of step with the rest of the world in failing to protect, at least in so many words, a right to travel, the presumption of innocence and entitlement to food, education and health care.Then again saying it doesn't make it so. The study's authors also found a link between undemocratic countries and the use of nice-sounding constitutional rhetoric, the likes of which you'll see in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in the course of their investigation. Indeed. North Korea, anyone?What do you think? Is the world wrong to move away from the principles of America's founding document, or is the U.S. out of step with the times?
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And Barack Obama is leading the way! Time to vote out EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT IN 2012! NObama in NOvember! Obama=wants to change the Constitution |
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2 No, he didn't say that. It was a democrat propaganda lie of many against Bush. Nor did he spray chemtrails on us, he didn't have a 90,000 acre ranch in paraguay to rule the new world order, he didn't cause kartina as Hillary tried to claim. The left leaders will fabricate anything, their followers will believe anything. http://www.factcheck.org/2007/12/bush-the-con... |
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2 What he said was you are a worthless POS! |
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1 the rise of a facist influence is now there for all to see... there constitution has been in constant flux since its inception.. both sides have changes it , worked around it and abused it... to say only one side wants to change it is niave at best... |
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2 Your brain is inside your head ass backwards. |
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1 Ron Paul knows it is not! Ron Paul CAN beat Obama. Ron Paul is fighting to restore the Constitution. Ron Paul is the only worthy candidate for president. |
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2 i agree he is the only one that can save america.... but america is adicted to war.. a hard addiction to break |
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1 That's why Obama is running for a second term. |
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no, you are wrong...that was bin laden...and we know how much his opinion is worth now. don't we? |
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1 Please do WE THE PEOPLE a favor and move out of the U.S. you would be much happier in russia or china |
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1 The very reason our nation is increasingly being seen as a declining former superpower, past it's prime, is precisely because we have allowed our leaders to drift so far away from the precepts of the Constitution as to make it nearly irrelevant. When our nation scrupulously follows Constitutional principles, we grow and prosper. When we ignore those principles, we flounder and go into decline. It is up to us to elect leaders, at all levels of government, who will respect the liberty ingrained within our Constitution. If those leaders fail to do so, it is up to us to remove them from power at the next election. If our nation is to survive, it is time to get serious about electing people who will uphold our Constitution, put government back into it's place as the servant of the people, and free up our citizens to once again build an economic base that no other nation can equal. We've done it before, we can do it again. |
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1 I am so sick of Obama and his angry racist fat wife. I want the sob put under a prison. |
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