We the People Don't Need a President's Plan

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 6 months ago to History
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Originally: “We the People — it is announced in their name, it is clothed with their authority, from whom all power originated and ultimately belong. Magna Carta is the grant of a king. This Constitution is the act of the people and what they have not expressly granted they have retained.”

Today: today “We the People” is commonly interpreted as a collective of people who can vote their preferences into law by majority rule and then implement their will against the will of individuals whose rights are ignored. When judges rule laws as unconstitutional they are seen as the problem because “they get in the way of the will of the people.”

Don't know about you, but I am no part of anyone's collection...
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