Have you read the Constitution since you were in school. The Constitution is about how Congress has the power to make laws to protect this nation”s citizens” health and welfare against common enemies. Over the years, Congress historically has gone where the Founding Fathers had no idea they would go and the Supreme Court has basically allowed it, along political lines of the times.
As to the changes, a lot of people come up with exotic what ifs and this or thats, but they never give the solutions or alternatives to them. There are a huge number of things that do not appear in the original Constitution, but have become part of our daily life. Here are just a few: planning departments, the IRS, Social Security, drivers licenses, regulations for doctors and hospitals, no smoking laws, income tax, property tax, speed limits, education, farm subsidies, OSHA, drug laws, fishing limits, entitlements to individuals, health care, libraries, national parks, abortion rights, probation and mental hospitals. This list is about 1 percent of what has been added to our daily lives that is found nowhere in our Constitution.
To say, or think that the Constitution is the guiding rule of law for this nation, really is not true. I bring this issue up to say that at this time in our history, this era, we the citizens of this great nation can add and subtract from the daily rules and laws we live by just like so many other generations have done in the past yet, we seem to have some belief we can”t.
Yes we can, and in doing so, we could actually make some great and needed changes for the betterment of all our citizens who live their lives today, and for our children in the future. Whether you believe it or not, we are just as good a people as our past generations were, and in a lot of ways, much better informed. I bring this up to point out just how important it is to elect, with our votes, leadership that will do the citizens of this nation”s bidding ? period.
James Hall
Clearlake Oaks
