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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Stuff That Needs Shredding

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Today's Civics Quiz

If you could go back in time and correct one thing that's caused the most grievous harm to our nation—since July 1776— what would it be?

It might be legislation, a court decision, or even something in the constitution itself. There are many things we can think of, but I'm looking for the "mother of all errors." Terminal City. WTFF were they thinking? The one we will not survive!

This is not a trick question; I hold the answer here in my powder burned fingers, and it will be published Monday at precisely High Noon. First though, I want to see how savvy you are.

Note: Keep your comment as short as possible; you'll have time to expand tomorrow. Example:18 USC 2074

Rodger the Real King of France 4/14/2013 09:27:00 AM 52 Comments

"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. "
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52 comments:

george said...: Remove the "common good" clause.; 4/14/13, 9:37 AM
Anonymous said...: Brown v. Board of Education; 4/14/13, 9:37 AM
Esteve said...: Kennedy ignores the progressives and liberates Cuba from Castro and his cronies. Finishes his presidency resulting in no Johnson administration. No new society, war on poverty, etc. Liberals never establish a beach-head for their successful overthrow of the constitution.; 4/14/13, 9:38 AM
Esteve said...: Ahem, Great Society. Still on my first cup of coffee.; 4/14/13, 9:41 AM
TimO said...: +1 Esteve. LBJ was a disaster lasting through to today.; 4/14/13, 9:52 AM
Anonymous said...: james...
the 17th amendment; 4/14/13, 10:05 AM
Anonymous said...: That's easy: 19th amendment along with letting non-owners of property vote. Think of the jack legs who wouldn't have been elected but for those things (FDR, Carter, Clinton, Obama, etc.)

RJL; 4/14/13, 10:08 AM
Anonymous said...: The National Firearms Act (NFA), 72nd Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 757, 48 Stat. 1236, enacted on June 26, 1934, currently codified as amended as 26 U.S.C. ch. 53

Mookie; 4/14/13, 10:08 AM
iri said...: No. XVIV; 4/14/13, 10:10 AM
Anonymous said...: Roe v. Wade; 4/14/13, 10:21 AM
Steve in Greensboro said...: 16th amendment (Federal Income Tax) February 3, 1913.
Federal Reserve Act, December 23, 1913.; 4/14/13, 10:22 AM
Anonymous said...: Failure to not support Marcus Garvey; 4/14/13, 10:39 AM
Alear said...: The election of James Buchanan. Slavery could have been abolished without that horrific war with better leadership in the 1850's.; 4/14/13, 10:47 AM
Anonymous said...: Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.

Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick; 4/14/13, 10:53 AM
mostly cajun said...: In the Preamble: "General Welfare"; 4/14/13, 10:55 AM
Anonymous said...: 40CFR which set up EPA. --General Petty Officer 5th Class Skyhawker Doug; 4/14/13, 10:58 AM
Anonymous said...: Giving the Federal Government the power to print fairy dust money in 1971 when we went off gold-without trillions of Uncle Benny's Uncle Sam bucks, all this welfare, crony capitalism and social justice shit would not be possible.

Also I don't know if going back in time and killing John Dewey would stem the current nightmare state of our education system but nipping that shit in the bud, however you did it, would have prevented millions of idjiots turning out for this nonsense of a free lunch
MM; 4/14/13, 11:04 AM
Anonymous said...: Not writing term limits into the constitution. the geez.; 4/14/13, 11:06 AM
Anonymous said...: concur with earlier XVII was worst amendment ever!

RetRsvMike; 4/14/13, 11:06 AM
Anonymous said...: One more thought-the power the SC fabricated in 1803(?) making them the sole arbiters of what is and what isn't Constitutional.
MM; 4/14/13, 11:07 AM
Unknown said...: War of Northern Aggression.
Once the idea of a free association of sovereign states was gone, our present proto-gulag was just a matter of time.

Republics simply cannot function at this size.; 4/14/13, 11:17 AM
Anonymous said...: The 17th amendment.
Paul; 4/14/13, 11:29 AM
Anonymous said...: Leaving the door open to professional politicians, not of by or for the people...

ignore amos; 4/14/13, 11:36 AM
Helly said...: Here it comes: Rodge has a big poop saved up for the 19th Amendment.; 4/14/13, 11:56 AM
Bill W. said...: 16th amendment. "They" got their noses in the tent...and freedom went out the door.; 4/14/13, 12:09 PM
Ralph Gizzip said...: The election of Barry goldwater in 1964.; 4/14/13, 12:11 PM
rickn8or said...: The non-vetting of Barrack Obama in 2008.; 4/14/13, 12:13 PM
Juice said...: ENGEL v. VITALE, 370 U.S. 421 (1962); 4/14/13, 12:23 PM
Anonymous said...: Commerce Clause to the Constitution, rewrite it so it's not a catchall for the government to run roughshod over the citizens.; 4/14/13, 1:56 PM
Isadore "Chilidog" Pike said...: The entire year of 1913, the creation of the FED, the IRS, and making Senators aristocracy. (see Amendments XVI & XVII); 4/14/13, 3:12 PM
Anonymous said...: Leaving out of the Constitution that the Several States can retrieve their sovereignty by the people of that state voting in convention to do so, and that the remaining states can not use force of arms to coerce the free state back into the union.
That ranks as the biggest error of the Founding Fathers.; 4/14/13, 3:16 PM
Anonymous said...: A Bill of Rights, without a corresponding Bill of Responsibilities.

Sir H/Comet; 4/14/13, 3:48 PM
Anonymous said...: Massachusetts started compulsory schooling (as opposed to education) in 1853.; 4/14/13, 4:49 PM
Anonymous said...: The phrase "A well regulated militia being necessary..." has given statists wiggle room for decades.

Should have been just "The RIGHT of the People to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT be infringed."
But that's minor compared to Wickard IMHO.
Another thing:
The Constitution gives Congress the power to set limits on the jurisdiction of SCOTUS; to my knowledge, they never have, and from John Marshall onward, 9 unelected men and women decide the fate of millions.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick; 4/14/13, 5:20 PM
Jess said...: What should be the eleventh amendment"

Except in times of war, Congress shall spend no more than projected revenues, balance any budget deficits without racing taxes and allow the people the right to refuse paying taxes for any reason.; 4/14/13, 6:36 PM
Don Curton said...: 19th amendment. No big brother govt and no big mother govt.; 4/14/13, 7:07 PM
daniel_day said...: Failure to specify "or else" conditions in the Constitution mandating immediate removal from office, prison, etc. penalties to be exacted on politicians who violate terms of the Constitution. (This wasn't my idea, I heard it, or something very similar, from Francis Porretto).; 4/14/13, 7:31 PM
Anonymous said...: I was going to say, "Prevent the birth of Joseph Kennedy." but many of you have come up with better suggestions. Some of these suggestions would still be impossible given a time machine. It sure would be nice to be able to whisper the right things in the ears of various founding fathers at the right time.
GrinfilledCelt; 4/14/13, 7:32 PM
Robert Mitchell Jr. said...: Stop the formation of the Bull Moose party, which split the Republican vote and the election to that terrible Racist (Who, being a Harvard Professor, could do no wrong) Wilson, the American Fascist and President for Life, the Moron who lost WWI and gave us WWII, who set the stage for FDR, the second American Fascist and President for Life. The man who's idiot "Ethnic Self Determination" started fires all over the world, fires which burn to this day......; 4/14/13, 8:11 PM
Guy S said...: Have to agree with just about everyone above. But Isadore and Robert Mitchell (who seem to be on the same page) get my nod.; 4/14/13, 8:46 PM
Csanad said...: The breeze of the butterfly's wings started with the suppression of the Whiskey Rebbellion...; 4/14/13, 11:07 PM
Anonymous said...: As I've long stated here. It is the 19th Amendment.

Casca; 4/14/13, 11:27 PM
Anonymous said...: Mitchell hit a major nail on the head with Bullmoose, a third party (warning warning) and Wilson, a despicable cur.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick; 4/15/13, 12:14 AM
Anonymous said...: Virtually all of the (n)-teenth Amendments.

- mean ol' white guy; 4/15/13, 6:58 AM
Celebrate Homogeneity said...: The 1965 immigration act.; 4/15/13, 6:59 AM
Anonymous said...: Dr. Benjamin Spock should have been regarded as the kook that he was, rather than as a prophet with the keys to the universe in his child-rearing theories. Failing that, he should now be disinterred, his bones incinerated and scattered to the four winds, and all mention of his name and philosophy scrubbed forever from history. But that's just me.
PvtCdr(SS) MichigammeDave; 4/15/13, 7:58 AM
Anonymous said...: The Three Fifths Compromise embedded in the Constitution laid the ground for a LOT of trouble.
If they had faced things straight on and fairly, and worked out a compensation system, there would have been a lot less divisiveness for a couple centuries.
It was the seeds for a lot of discord. It enabled an evil to continue, carpetbaggers, a war of secession, and a lot of hate.
It mixed political power with ownership of persons. States with slaves had more representation per citizen than states without, warping the assignment of 'power'.
I could go on, but I think it key to many things that have occurred in the last 200 years...
tomw; 4/15/13, 9:14 AM
The Friendly Grizzly said...: There should have been a provision in the Constitution preventing members of any of the three branches of government serving in another branch.

Put in practical terms: lawyers, who are officers of the court anf thus members of the judiciary branch, have no business writing law. It just puts a lot of foxes in the henhouse.; 4/15/13, 10:10 AM
bent nail said...: The US Constitution i.e. the birth mother of the bastard of central controlled statism.

The nation states were better served by the Articles of Confederation.; 4/15/13, 10:22 AM
Juice said...: ENGEL v. VITALE, 370 U.S. 421 (1962)
~follow by~
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)

Eleven short years to end respect for life. Is it any wonder that drones are in the sky?; 4/15/13, 12:01 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: The answer is

The 19th Hole ..; 4/15/13, 12:07 PM
mrz80 said...: mrz80 says, the Fourteenth Amendment. Its wording "...citizen of The United States, and of the several States..." reverses the sense of the original Constitutional construct, and provides the root cause of the trend toward Federal Supremacy that has been, for most of the last century or more, squashing the State-centric balance of power, leaving us with a distant, unreachable, unalterable bureacratic central government that is entirely the antithesis of all the Founders hoped they were establishing to themselves and their posterity. Unapportioned income tax? Direct Senatorial elections to remove the States as viable entities in the body politic? Unthinkable (or at least unattainable) without that initial, essential reversal.; 4/15/13, 7:18 PM

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