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<blockquote data-quote="ConstitutionCowboy" data-source="post: 3306369" data-attributes="member: 745"><p>I like most of what you have written, but I've got a couple things to point out that do disturb me. </p><p></p><p>One is that the government doesn't have rights - government only has powers we grant to it. To say the government has rights is to put it on an equal footing to us. Government is our servant.</p><p></p><p>The second issue is that the Constitution does not provide us with our rights. The Constitution protects our rights from the government - the government that is our servant.</p><p></p><p>One more minor issue - though it is irrelevant to this discussion - is that 11 of the 12 proposed amendments have been ratified and stand as added articles to the Constitution. An eleventh proposed amendment from the original list ended up being ratified as the Twenty-seventh added article (27th Amendment) on May 7, 1992. It states: "No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened."</p><p></p><p>Wouldn't you know, however, true to our elected Senators and Representatives reputation(s) that a bill was passed November 30, 1989, granting themselves automatic pay raises every year, 2-1/2 years before the Amendment was ratified! Congress has to pass a bill <u>not</u> to receive that raise on a yearly basis. To their credit though, Congress has voted not to receive their raises since 2010.</p><p></p><p>Woody</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ConstitutionCowboy, post: 3306369, member: 745"] I like most of what you have written, but I've got a couple things to point out that do disturb me. One is that the government doesn't have rights - government only has powers we grant to it. To say the government has rights is to put it on an equal footing to us. Government is our servant. The second issue is that the Constitution does not provide us with our rights. The Constitution protects our rights from the government - the government that is our servant. One more minor issue - though it is irrelevant to this discussion - is that 11 of the 12 proposed amendments have been ratified and stand as added articles to the Constitution. An eleventh proposed amendment from the original list ended up being ratified as the Twenty-seventh added article (27th Amendment) on May 7, 1992. It states: "No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened." Wouldn't you know, however, true to our elected Senators and Representatives reputation(s) that a bill was passed November 30, 1989, granting themselves automatic pay raises every year, 2-1/2 years before the Amendment was ratified! Congress has to pass a bill [U]not[/U] to receive that raise on a yearly basis. To their credit though, Congress has voted not to receive their raises since 2010. Woody [/QUOTE]
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