On Fri, 09 May 2008 13:31:33 GMT, "James Silverton"
wrote:
> William wrote on Fri, 9 May 2008 09:53:17 +0100:
>
>> "Mike...." wrote in
>> message news:1qdnqnq359yh4$.lx40gnwcr3x7.dlg@40tude.net...
>>> Following up to Jean O'Boyle
>>>
>>>> Congress does
>>>> make the laws and no ONE person can trash our Constitution.
>>>
>>> constitution? Why are americans constitution obsessed?
>
>> Because it provides the framework for the organization of the
>> US government and is the supreme law of our country.
>
>> ----------------------
>
>> Things change.
>
>> You're stuck with a leader who has the powers of an eighteenth
>> century king, everybody else has moved on a bit...
>
>
>Have any of you ever looked at US Oaths of Office? Here is the
>beginning of the current oath of enlistment and oath for
>commissioned officers; note the pre-eminence of the
>Constitution.
>
>:
>"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and
>defend the Constitution of the United States against all
>enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and
>allegiance to the same."
Henry VIII claimed something similar just before the dissolution of the
monasteries.
--
Martin
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