Poll: Most say Founding Fathers would be disappointed »
Posted By TechnologyExpert 3 months, 1 week ago in NewsAccording to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, 69 percent of adult Americans who responded to a poll June 26-29 said the signers of the Declaration of Independence would be disappointed by the way the nation has turned out overall.
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TechnologyExpert3 months, 1 week ago
Americans "didn't always feel that way," according to Keating Holland, CNN polling director. "In 2001, 54 percent thought that the signers of the Declaration of Independence would be pleased with the state of the country today."
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rimbaud3 months, 1 week ago
The Founding Father's would be impressed with how well the Constitution has preserved the principles of the Declaration of Independence and how well it has withstood the test of time. The would be impressed with how the country has evolved (through the civil rights court cases) to fall better in line with the principles of the Declaration.
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Locky123 months, 1 week ago
It is a crisis in which the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are invoked against the religious consciences of the people. Government too often impedes religion by denying Americans their right to pray at civic gatherings, stripping religious symbols from the public square and banishing God to private life. We are in a crisis when government won't allow families to protect their children from pornography, couples to protect marriage from being redefined or society to protect women and their children from the predatory clutches of the big business of abortion.
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CRYMTYPHON3 months, 1 week ago
The 'religious conscience of the people' is a good phrase.
It doesn't mean anything except 'the beliefs of people who believe what I believe', but still, a good phrase.
Prayer isn't banned; what is banned is someone in charge saying 'We will pray now and this is what we are going to pray'.
No heterosexual marriage was ever threatened by a gay couple. American families ARE threatened by a plague of divorce. If conservatives dared seriousness they would push for a constitutional ban on divorce.
'Protect women AND children'? What about the simple-minded and the aged and other women-like creatures?
All children need protection from big business; agreed there.
But do women need your protection from the predatory clutches of the abortion industry? How about women stay out of ALL unwelcome clutches by being the deciders of what they do with their bodies?
The founding fathers would approve.
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mompro3 months, 1 week ago
I also think they would be saddened by the misuse of the Constitution to promote prejudice and oppression to many. Free speech has been abused in many ways. But, we have to protect it regardless. The right to bear arms, the same, but we have to protect it, etc. I don't think they could have envisioned this in any way. How we've evolved from the original has many good points obviously, but some not so good as well. Sorry for such a broad picture. I don't need to tell anyone how complicated the simple has become.
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raza93 months, 1 week ago
At the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin told an inquisitive citizen that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gave the people a Republic, if you can keep it. We should apologize to Mr. Franklin. It is obvious that the Constitution is just a shell of what it once was. Our Republic has diminished and we are wallowing in a pure democracy.
The job of the government is to provide liberty and protect liberty. The people are supposed to take care of themselves. Both in a personal way as well as in economic way. And we're not supposed to tell other countries how to live. That's what the Constitution dictates to us.
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raza93 months, 1 week ago
Our constitutional system was designed to restrain political power and place limits on the size and scope of government. Giving more authority over social matters to any branch of the federal government is a mistake, because a centralized government is unlikely to reflect local sentiment for long. Both political parties are guilty of ignoring the 9th and 10th amendments, and federalizing whole areas of law that constitutionally should be left up to states. This abandonment of federalism and states' rights paved the way for our current state of affairs.
Over the last hundred years, the goal of securing individual liberties within the framework of a constitutional republic has been replaced with incessant talk of democracy and fairness.
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raza93 months, 1 week ago
The majority is assumed to be in charge today and can do whatever it pleases. If the majority has not yet sanctioned some desired egregious action demanded by special interests, the propaganda machine goes into operation, and the pollsters relay the results back to the politicians who are seeking legitimacy in their endeavors. The rule of law and the Constitution have become irrelevant, and we live by constant polls.
Our Founders shared strongly held views regarding the evils of democracy and the benefits of a Constitutional Republic. For them, a democracy meant centralized power, controlled by majority opinion, which was up for grabs and therefore completely arbitrary.
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