a look inside » Freedom http://blog.ajmartinez.com my life, my thoughts, my world. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:59:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Death of a Legend http://blog.ajmartinez.com/2009/09/03/the-death-of-a-legend/ http://blog.ajmartinez.com/2009/09/03/the-death-of-a-legend/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:19:36 +0000 Anthony http://blog.ajmartinez.com/?p=578 A long post was planned, but I’ve not got the energy to go through it all right now. The Constitution is dead. It died a long, long time ago. Only in the past month or so have I come to realize this interesting piece of information. Essentially, I took an oath (twice) to support and defend something that doesn’t actually bear any relevance today.

Article 1 defines the legislature, what the legislature can do, and what the legislature cannot do. Looking back at “key issues” over the course of the last several decades reveals that Article 1 is irrelevant.

Article 2 defines the executive, see above.

Article 3 defines the judiciary, and again we see large irrelevance.

Even the much vaunted Bill of Rights is but a shell of meaningless words today.

All of that said, I’m not sure why I still react to political ploys as if the Constitution still play some role in the way our government works. If you do believe in the Constitution, and the principles therein, you have no representation in government. It’s an interesting place to be in the land of the “free.”

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