The main purpose of the Constitution is to establish the basic rights of all American citizen. The Constitution of the United States of America defines a framework for the country’s law and order. Any law that is proposed must not violate the 27 amendments, for in those amendments are the sacred rights that protects what our American citizens may or may not do. They are free to do whatever they wish, as long as it doesn’t violate any of the various amendments that are listed as part of in the Constitution,
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One of the main reasons I feel so passionate about encouraging you, dear reader, to become interested in my psychologically based book What Would Our Founding Fathers Say?: How Today’s Leaders Have Lost Their Way is because I feel this is the last great hope that we can get ourselves out of this morass our country has found itself in.
Basically, the reason we’re in this mess is because our two political parties are unwilling to compromise,
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I just heard on TV that there’s not expected to be a ban on the use of assault weapons or the number of rounds allowed to be used in a magazine clip this year, the news coming just after learning that our first lady, Michelle Obama, had attended the funeral of Hadiya Pendleton, who sang at the presidential Inauguration, and who was shot and killed in a gang-related gun violence in a park close to the Obamas’ home on Chicago’s South Side.
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During the time leading up to the American Revolution, there was no standing army in the Colonies. As such, they had to be ready to fight in a “minute’s” notice to defend themselves. That’s why they were called “minute men.” They were our only defense against invasion at the time.
After the war, when our Founding Fathers were drafting the Constitution, they included the right to bear arms (the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights) to ensure there would always be a means to protect and defend the newly established country.
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Because of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting at Newtown, Connecticut, President Obama stated we must take steps to assure a tragedy such as that should never happen again. In order to assure that never happens, initially he stated we should not “politicize” the gun control debate. In a later presentation, when he addressed the Newtown School shooting families and responders who attended a vigil in Newtown, he asked his audience, “What choice do we have? Are we really prepared to say that we’re powerless in the face of such carnage,
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