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Time to start preparing
The Homeland Security Act is the scariest thing to come down the pike in the United States in a very, very long time. You can read about it here.
What can we do? Write your Congress-critters. Do not email them. Email gets ignored. Whip out the word processors and put your words on paper. Calling them also gets registered.
If it does pass, use cash whenever possible. Especially when you buy ammo for the weapons we should all own before the 2004 election season. The Second Amendment is the reset switch on the U.S. Constitution.
What can we do? Write your Congress-critters. Do not email them. Email gets ignored. Whip out the word processors and put your words on paper. Calling them also gets registered.
If it does pass, use cash whenever possible. Especially when you buy ammo for the weapons we should all own before the 2004 election season. The Second Amendment is the reset switch on the U.S. Constitution.
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Merely a reassertion that the Government governs at the pleasure of the people and not the other way around.
At that point, depending on the beliefs of the people asserting that power, the Constitution would most likely be revised.
Given the general beliefs that seem to be at odds with the current governmental bent and the general agreement with the Constitution as written, a "minor" revision vs. a complete overhaul seems more likely and would be easier to ratify.
Probably a revision that restricted the Federal government more from certain privacy and personal protection areas (civil rights, that sort of thing) and hopefully a more simplified plain language version...
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(1) You're assuming that the tenor of the government does not accurately reflect the will of the people. However, if the recent election results are at all representative, it DOES ... unfortunately with those who happen to disagree with the majority.
(2) Something written in plain language, by lawyers? A profession whose very existence depends on knowing more of the Sekrit Lore than you do? Ha. Ha ha.
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...Besides, we are a Constitutional Republic and not a straight Democracy.
The point of which is to insure the rights of those not in the voting majority.
(The whole point behind ennumerated Constitutional Rights, the Electoral College, the Senate vs. House designs, the appointment of Senators early on in lieu of direct election, the Supreme Court and Appeals Courts, etc.)
Enough of a "minority", or a grouping of such, can force the issue and protect their interests with the rest forced to either fight and kill them and risk their own skins or to accede and let them either go their own way or change the Constitution accomodate their concerns.
Admittedly, the last time this happened in large scale, the "minority" lost after a number of bloody years.
Most votes doesn't always mean right.
Bread and circusses and all that.