Huckabee and the Constitution

[jackofallgeeks]

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bothers me. So far as candidates go (or whatever we call them before
they're actually Presidential candidates), I've generally liked Huckabee.
And I imagine no one would be surprised if I told them that my moral and
philosophical principles line up with his fairly well. But that having been
said, I really don't think we should be re-writing the
constitution, "word or the living God" or not. I'm not a strong
proponent of most "separation of Church and State" arguments in general, but
there it was a decided, willful choice on the Founder's part to not mention
God or religion in the Constitution (aside from that bit about not
instituting or persecuting). More general than that I think it's poor form
to "rewrite" the constitution, and though the mechanism of Amendments offers
functionality which is fairly close to that, I don't feel it's the same
thing by any measure and i certainly don't think it should be used to
contradict the main body of our Constitution.

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[amazonmink.livejournal.com]

First off this is Matt not Liz. Secondly he said that he wanted "to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards" which is not to re-write but amend. First lets get the what we are talking about straight.

Main Entry: amend
Pronunciation: \ə-ˈmend\
Function: verb
1 : to put right; especially : to make emendations in (as a text)
2 a: to change or modify for the better : improve
2 b: to alter especially in phraseology; especially : to alter formally by modification, deletion, or addition

Now our forefathers set up the Constitution to be amended which is where the Bill of Rights came from (the first 10 Amendments) since that time there have been 17 other Amendments passed of those only one the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) came close to imposing the "will of God" on people and it did not go over well and was removed later. I have faith in the fact that even if we go through times of really dumb people that any type of Constitutional Amendment that is not for the long term good of the country will be be removed. So if for some reason those in the gov't see fit to pass a Constitutional amendment it still has to be ratified by 3/4 of the states. That alone is no small task.

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[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

And this is all true. As noted above, I don't have a problem with Amendments, though you make a good point on Prohibition.

In other news, you should get your own journal, Matt, even if just for when you want to make comments. They're free.

[starlight1184.livejournal.com]

You could probably guess this, but that makes me physically ill.

[starlight1184.livejournal.com]

To avoid future repercussions that are unnecessary... Matt makes a good point, and that is all very true. I just find the basic concept disturbing (not the amending... the "re-writing" to change the base intent of the constitution).

It's late. I'm incoherent. Apologies.