Assassination

by on July 15, 2024 at 12:01 am
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I was playing games with friends on Saturday when the news came down. We looked at each other and said that it was time for that. We were not surprised. We’ve been studying the rhetoric put out by the Democrat leadership, the Left, and the Main Stream Media, but I repeat myself, for the last decade and this is where it was all leading. They’ve been calling him Hitler, authoritarian, a dictator, a rapist, a traitor, and more over the last decade. They’ve called his supporters Domestic Terrorists and threats to America. They’ve assaulted and sometimes killed Trump supporters who came to Trump rallies. It was only a matter of time before someone took a shot at Trump himself. The question wasn’t if, it was when and who. In this case, it was a twenty-year old kid who lived his entire conscious life hearing this rhetoric from the Left. He didn’t ask to grow up surrounded by Left wing violence. But he did, and he killed a firefighter before going down. And that is truly tragic.

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The Twenty-Seventh Amendment

by on July 14, 2024 at 12:01 am
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The Twenty-Seventh Amendment was the first of twelve amendments proposed to the Constitution. The last ten were approved and became the Bill of Rights. The second, concerning changing how Representatives were apportioned, failed to be passed, but the general idea was later enacted through legislation. The first fell out of thought and memory and languished as one of the failed amendments for nearly two hundred years. A college student decided to write a paper for his government class about this amendment in 1982, and said it could still be passed because it had no end-date in it. He turned that paper into a national campaign and it moved through the States until it was passed in 1992, over two centuries after it was proposed. What does it do? It states that no law changing how much a Senator or Representative makes is allowed to take effect until after the next national election. And so passes the story of both the strangest but also most simple and common sensical of our amendments.

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The Twenty-Fourth Amendment

by on July 13, 2024 at 12:01 am
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The Twenty-Fourth Amendment is yet another amendment aimed at modifying the voting electorate. In this case the target was the unjust use of poll taxes to stop people from voting if they could not pay the tax. These poll taxes were most often targeted at blacks, poor whites, and women if the State in question did not want those parts of the population to vote. This amendment banned the use of poll taxes, or any other tax, to deprive people of the right to vote.

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The Twenty-Third Amendment

by on July 12, 2024 at 12:01 am
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The Twenty-Third Amendment followed the tradition of many other amendments by changing the voting electorate. In this case, the argument was that it was unfair to deny citizens of the capital to vote for the Presidency. Most people at the time did not consider this a partisan issue and both major parties supported changing it. The amendment granted the District of Columbia the number of electors it would have if had two Senators and the appropriate number of Representatives if apportioned, as long as that number was not more than the smallest State. They have had three electors in every election since, and all but 1 voted Democrat.

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The Twenty-Second Amendment

by on July 11, 2024 at 12:01 am
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The Twenty-Second Amendment instituted a two-term limit on the Presidency. Term limits had been considered back when the Constitution was written, but did not make the final cut even though most of the signers agreed with the basic idea of the Presidency rotating through people. George Washington set the tradition of only serving two terms, and almost every President after him followed that tradition, either willingly or unwillingly. FDR of course did not follow it and won election four times. After he died and WWII ended, there was a quick push to pass an amendment to make certain another life-time tenured Presidency did not happen.

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