[nick95673]

Originally Posted by Draven2

We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document; and open to their interpretations.

Yeah!!!!
I once read this stupid foriegners speach on the Constitution.

Originally Posted by Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United States Constitution has proved itself the more marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. Drawn up at a time when the population of this country was practically confined to a fringe along our Atlantic coast, combining into one nation for the first time scattered and feeble States, newly released from the autocratic control of the English Government, its preparation involved innumerable compromises between the different Commonwealths. Fortunately for the stability of our Nation, it was already apparent that the vastness of the territory presented geographical and climatic differences which gave to the States wide differences in the nature of their industry, their agriculture and their commerce. Already the New England States had turned toward shipping and manufacturing, while the South was devoting itself almost exclusively to the easier agriculture which a milder climate permitted.

[Draven2]

So does that mean that you do not agree with the "Stupid foreigners" post?

[nick95673]

seeing as how FDR was our president at a time when a real threat was at our door step yes that means I disagree with the myspace quote.

[silverdevil]

There is a reason we have as many freedoms as we do: federalism. We are incorporated territories, each with their own prudent way of governing those who choose to live within the confines of what we deem a state.

Everyone who was involved in creating our Constitution was either an immigrant or born of immigrants. Not one of them was of Indian descent. The inmense majority of those who died defending our way of life were also either immigrants or born of them. As our Constitution provides us the right to think and speak freely, so, too, does it provide us the right to adapt said document to our times, as it has been adapted some 27 times to date; the latest of these in 1992.

Last I read, the Constitution did not say that those who are immigrants are of less value than those who are born here. By accepting them as U.S. citizens, we grant them every right we have enjoyed since birth. That right includes the duty to question our government and to have the government work for the people, and not the other way around.

A wise man once said, "When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

I did not cut this quotation short for a reason. It makes clear that the "right to keep and bear arms" was intended to protect the people against tyrants. Seeing as we won't be overthrowing the government anytime soon, our "right" to keep these weapons is moot. BTW, the quote is attributed to none other than our 3rd President, Thomas Jefferson, in a letter dated 1791.