Chuck Todd amputates constitutional rights from God
In the course of taking shots at Roy Moore, Chuck Todd of MSNBC's Meet the Press Daily revealed his belief that our constitutional rights are merely granted to us by the state, not anchored in God and Natural Law. Curtis Houck of Newsbusters:
MSNBC's MTP Daily host Chuck Todd led off Wednesday's show with an asinine, pants-on-fire assertion that Alabama Republican senatorial candidate Roy Moore "doesn't appear to believe in the Constitution as it's written" because Moore said our rights come from God.
Ahem! The first sentence of the Declaration of Independence asserts where rights come from as Americans sought "to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them." The Declaration is the foundation on which the Constitution was erected. What rights the state grants, the state can take away.
By using the "as it is written" language, Todd tips us off as to what he is doing. Yes, it is not in the text of the Constitution. But that is nothing to be alarmed about. Moore is aligned with constitutional tradition. Todd wants to spread among his viewers the mistaken concept that the state, not God, is the source of their rights.
Todd's views are the ones to be alarmed about.
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Speaking of Gods, Dogs and Lunacy, it is my humble hillbilly belief that if you support Moore in any manner you are on Team Antichrist. Moore is a nasty piece of shyte and should be treated thusly.
I'd say Trump might be the Antichrist but he's not man enough. He'd have to be The Beast 333.
And, in my humble redneck coon ass belief, I agree with you on Moore.
IMO, there should never be a question of what was intended by our FFs when they wrote our Constitution. They were humble men who were awed at the task presented before them. The D of I must have been a grueling task for them. They envisioned an independent Nation and created something beyond their humble abilities. I honor them.
For 241 years, it has been our task to preserve our Constitution. Not allow anyone to undermine it. We have had many POTUS .....some good, some bad, but we have persevered.
We must be doing something right.
Even though I am basically an anarchist, I am an anarchist who loves a democratic republic. To paraphrase another anarchist I cannot recall but am far too lazy to research.
I just hope we can get it back one day. I do not have much hope though. I think the nails are already in the coffin.
We shall see though.....
I don't agree with you on that point. We are a Nation indivisible, but some would like to tear us apart. They find so many wrongs and not many rights.
Yet, where in this world would you find a Country that has given so much to so many? We have given our men and women, our support and, yet, we are demonized because of it.
Those who stomp on our Flag; those who stomp on our Anthem and, those who stomp on our Allegiance only have that right because of our Constitution.
The Preamble to the US Constitution states very clearly that the Constitution is the creation of “We the People.” It doesn’t confer anything upon us, but rather it is a social compact that establishes how a free and independent people will govern themselves.
It is made doubly clear in the Tenth Amendment:
We’ve established the supremacy of the people, and one should note, the Bill of Rights is an exercise in defining “negative liberties.” That is, the Bill of Rights doesn’t confer liberties upon the citizenry, rather it imposes limits upon the power of the government to interfere with existing liberties. Or, as John Jay wrote in Federalist 2:
And where might these natural rights come from?
Moore is right. Our rights come from God. In order to maximize our safety and prosperity, we’ve delegated some of those rights to the government and limited what the government may do. That document limiting government is called the US Constitution.
Our natural rights preexisted the Constitution.
"The people must CEDE to it [the Government] some of their natural rights, in order to vest it with requisite powers"
Who decides which 'natural rights' MUST be CEDED?
Once 'natural rights' are ceded to government the whole 'natural rights given by god' thingy is moot...
Moore may be right on that account, but being an AL girl his affiliation with Gov. Bentley is extremely questionable and I don't want any part of him.
Moore threw his lot in with Bentley who is nothing but a piece of crapola.