On Fri, 9 May 2008 15:02:02 +0100, "William Black"
wrote:
>
>"James Silverton" wrote in message
>news:VmYUj.2$5Y1.0@trnddc04...
>> William wrote on Fri, 9 May 2008 09:53:17 +0100:
>>
>>> "Mike...." wrote in
>>> message news:1qdnqnq359yh4$.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."
>
>Who cares?
Anyone with a brain, which excludes you. |