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I love reading the Federalist Patriot simply because they take the top stories, quotes, and analysis each week, and in a concise and often funny way, share the news from a conservative perspective. The insights shared were particularly spot on during the recent presidential election.
And I highly recomend this publication to anyone who would like to balance news coverage from the Main Stream Media, which tends to look at things from a Marxist perspective. All of the writers for FP are Patriots who love God, Family, and Country.
In honor of Constitution day tomorow, when we as a Nation Celebrate the 218th anniversary of the ratification of this amazing document, I share these quotes, links, and insights to encourage you the reader to up your knowledge of the Constitution of the United States of America.
Jenny Hatch
Quotes from the most recent Publication:
“QUOTE OF THE WEEK…
“I have no platform. Judges are not politicians who can promise
to do certain things in exchange for votes. Judges are like
umpires. They don’t make rules, they apply them… The
primary check on the courts has always been judicial
self-restraint.” —Judge John Roberts before the Senate Judiciary
Committee”
“Just how important is it that President George Bush’s Constitutional-constructionist nominees be confirmed? It is more important than anything else this administration could hope to accomplish. The future of the Republic is riding on these confirmations.
The Federalist Papers, as the definitive explication of our Constitution’s original intent, clearly define original intent in regards to Constitutional interpretation. In Federalist No. 78 Alexander Hamilton writes, “[The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment…liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.”
In Federalist No. 81 Hamilton notes, “[T]here is not a syllable in the [Constitution] which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution…”
George Washington advised, “The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, ’till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.”
Today, 218 years hence, Justice Antonin Scalia says of judicial activism, “As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to ‘do what the people want,’ instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically.””
“Liberals can’t win on abortion, gay marriage and bans on the Pledge of Allegiance by allowing Americans to vote. That’s why they need the courts to keep inventing rights to abortion, gay marriage and bans on the Pledge of Allegiance. Normal liberals know that, which is why they duck honest argument. But the crazy liberals don’t. That’s why Bush needs to concentrate on luring them out of their cages. It takes so little to provoke them! Just let us know before Bush nominates Janice Rogers Brown to the Supreme Court so we can arrange for live TV coverage of George Soros’s head exploding, OK?” —Ann Coulter
“From the “Village Academic Curriculum” File…
The academic Left has long pounded their ideological nonsense into young college minds with the support of billions of dollars a year nationwide. For many years now, polls indicate that the longer a kid is a student, the more Marxist he becomes.
After all, PhDs vote overwhelmingly Democrat, contrary to their intelligence. Yet, in spite of all of this firepower, the Left is worried that some conservative groups are gaining inroads in America’s campuses. There are only perhaps a half dozen conservative organizations such as the Leadership Institute, the Young Americans Foundation and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute which are beginning to have an effect on campus.
The combined budget of these groups is somewhere in the neighborhood of $25 to $30 million—a far cry from the war chest of their opponents. However, Morton Blackwell, head of the Leadership Institute, which thrives on 300 campuses, puts it: “We are easily outspent 50 to 1. I’m honestly not worried about George Soros putting another $1 billion into leftwing political activities on campus. They have no idea how to spend the billions they already control.” This, we hope, is a little encouraging news on the warfront with Academentia.”
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