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Who Are These Progressives?

By Esther Ramos

No. They don’t sell insurance. What today’s “Progressives” want, is for us to adopt a ’21st century’ or ‘living constitution’, that works to transform our nation’s supreme law without public notice or debate. They wish to diminish the democratic and representative processes, replacing our republican government with a system of judicial government, in which policy is more often determined by federal judges. Instead of simply defining broad rules of governance for the legislative and executive branches of our government, the progressive constitution would be set up to compel specific outcomes. That’s just wrong!

The important decisions would, more and more, be established in the federal court system and not by the voters. Also wrong! The decisions of the voters on subjects such as social service funding, racial quotas, and immigration policy are already being overturned by single judges. And again, JUST WRONG!

We will become a nation whose governance can be changed at the whim of whoever happens to be temporally seated on the bench. We can see the constitutions of failed societies across the globe being managed like this, can’t we? Is that what we want? With regard to the protections, privileges, and rights that are functions of States’ rights, as well as personal liberties, we don’t want the federal courts becoming perpetual ‘censors’. Do we?

Our Constitution mainly provides for a series of ‘negative liberties’. They can not inflect cruel or unusual punishment on you or on me. We shall not be subjected to unreasonable searches or seizures. See? Etched in stone. Not living. It was never meant to provide for material goods like clothing, schooling, safety, housing, insurance, jobs, food, health care, etc. Article I, Section 8 is pretty specific. Look it up on that internet you’re on every day. Those things cost LOTS of money, and other citizens have to pay for it.

I believe the original Constitution is a document that is the heritage and the responsibility of every American Citizen, and that we should just honor it and respect it at face value.

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