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Constitutional Marriage Rights ? WHERE?A Reader?s View
2009-07-02 00:57:00 GayPatriot reader Jeff Fenner sent me this “letter to the editor” for publication. I have reprinted in its entirety. All I can say is…. AMEN, brother! -Bruce (GayPatriot) ========== Call me crazy, but I don?t see anywhere in the United States Constitution that gives anyone the right to marry, least of all, heterosexuals. What I do see is that ...
By: GayPatriot
Constitutional Precommitments, and Their Relation to Democracy: An Evaluati
2009-02-19 21:16:00 Leonard O Goenaga POT4930, Constitutional Theory Professor Fatovic February 18th, 2009 Question 2: Constitutional Precommitments, and Their Relation to Democracy: An Evaluation of Holmes and Waldron. For some time, Constitutional Democracy has been seen as somewhat of an oxymoron. This tension has been between Constitutionalist (such as Hayek) and Democrats (such as Shapiro), who have argued over the dangers of ...
A Proposed CA Constitutional Amendment to Overturn 8
2008-11-14 20:20:00 While all too many gay activists have busied themselves throwing a temper tantrum expressing their outrage at last week’s California vote in favor of Proposition 8, a few gay writers and leaders have exercised restraint, counseling caution and developing a new strategy to promote state recognition of same-sex marriage. I believe the broader strategy should be ...
By: GayPatriot
Obama, The Constitutional Scholar?Hardly.
2008-10-08 13:57:00 As background for this post, here is a passage from Senator Obama’s biography on the official Obama-Biden website. He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Soon after, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. Finally, his advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years. In 2004, he became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Many Obama supporters have, ad nauseum, labeled the Senator a “Constitutional scholar.”  Obama himself repeatedly puffs out his chest with this part of his resume. Well, something has been bothering me about the first Obama-McCain debate. That is Obama’s complete lack of understanding about the Consitution when it comes to the budget-making process.  Here is the transcript of the debate that I’m ...
By: GayPatriot
Can a State Constitutional Convention Save the Illinois Pension System?
2008-06-06 15:45:00 One of the chief arguments against a constitutional convention is that “they” will take away the pensions. In fact, there are some proponents (chiefly business groups) that advocate scrapping the pension system because it is a large part of the state’s debt. To be fair, in about 10 years, the state’s pension obligations ...
PML-N agreed to PPP proposed constitutional package
2008-05-29 05:52:00 The Pakistan Muslim League N on Tuesday agreed to most points of the PPP-proposed constitutional package but demanded reinstatement of the deposed judges through a parliamentary resolution in accordance with the Murree Declaration before tabling of the 18th Constitution Amendment Bill in the National Assembly sources in the two parties said. The PML-N sources said ...
constitutional package OR unconstitutional packaging of vicious intentions
2008-05-26 11:52:00 Finally the world famous and well waited constitutional package came in..With so many flaws that it seems Zardari tryign to hide his vicious intentions with good wraping of constitution..A few of them as given below: 1-CJ job tenure will be 3 years: read more
By: BuzzVines
Constitutional Package : Real Motives of PPP
2008-05-24 17:35:00 The package presented by Pakistan People’s Party for massive amendments in the constitution is just an eyewash and shouldn’t be taken serious and honest effort, as it’s just to gain more time to diffuse the lawyers movement and to allow establishment get more stronger. The package presented by PPP has got numerous harmless points, while it ...
Zardari consulting with PM on constitutional package draft
2008-05-24 14:44:00 CNews ISLAMABAD: The co-chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party, Asif Ali Zardari has said that draft of 62 points constitutional package has been finalized which will be sent to the Prime Minister and PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif and the coalition parties.Addressing SAFMA conference here, he said the lawyers must be legal experts but they need not teach politics to the PPP. We also want the restoration of the judiciary but not through any short cut method.He said PPP is forefront flag-bearer of democracy and it is PPP which brought democracy in the country by laying down sacrifices. We would even appreciate those who want prove they are greater supporter of democracy, he added.?PPP has never backed out of its promises? we also want restoration of the deposed judges but there is a modus operandi to achieve this goal,? Asif Zardari said. In this regard he informed that a 62-point constitutional package has been put in black and white but added ?it is not a final document because ideas from ot...
PPP Consulting with PM on Constitutional Package Draft
2008-05-24 06:42:00 The co-chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party Asif Ali Zardari has said that draft of 62 points constitutional package has been finalized which will be sent to the Prime Minister and PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif and the coalition parties. Addressing SAFMA conference here he said the lawyers must be legal experts but they need not teach ...
California State Supreme Court Says Same Sex Marriage Is A Constitutional R
2008-05-15 21:31:00 But — Do Not Expect A Mass Exodus Of Closeted, Toe-Tapping Republicans To Flock To “The Golden State” INDEED… If I automatically inherit the Constitutional “right” to marry my lovely wife (yeah, opposite sex in my case), then so shall G.O.P. darlins’ Larry Craig and Ted Haggard have that same Constitutional “right” to come out of their lonely “closets” to marry each other, though we can all rest assured neither man will be “publicly-pleased”- with today’s ruling by the California State Supreme Court to grant that right to them. “Activist judges at work again”? HARDLY. In a rare moment of actually getting one right for a change, the “Robed Ones” of Kah-lee-fone-ya simply gazed upon the Constitution and in a 4-3 ruling (shame on those three, by the way), they saw nothing at all to prohibit Teddy and Larry from becoming residents of The Golden State, pledging their vows to ea...
Gay Marriage Constitutional in California!
2008-05-15 21:30:00 Just in, gay marriage in California is constitutional and legal. Although I am not gay, as a resident of San Francisco, I applaud and support the gay community for the victory. This isn’t even about Gay people, this is about the fact that the government is being prejudice because of certain people’s sexual orientation. The one ...
By: SF Blogg
My New Passion - US Constitutional Law
2008-05-14 16:10:00 Anonymous pamphlets, leaflets, brochures and even books have played an important role in the progress of mankind. Great works of literature have frequently been produced by authors writing under assumed names. Despite readers’ curiosity and the public’s interest in identifying the creator of a work of art, an author generally is free to decide whether ...
By: macewan
Vote ?yes? in November to constitutional convention
2008-05-14 00:00:00 From the Southtown Star: A poll taken earlier this year for the University of Illinois' Institute of Government and Public Affairs and released last week shows overwhelming public support for legislative term limits and recall of elected state officials. The poll of about 1,000 Illinois residents taken in January found that 70 ...
By: Publius Forum
Oklahoma: Right to Hunt Constitutional Amendment to be Heard on the House F
2008-05-01 03:49:00 As soon as Tuesday, April 22, the Oklahoma House of Representatives is scheduled to hear SJR38, authored by State Senator Glenn Coffee (R-30) and State Representative Randy Terrill (R-53).
By: Gun News
Judges to be restored under constitutional package: Asif Ali Zardari
2008-04-29 01:30:00 CNews Geo Tv:DUBAI: Pakistan Peoples Party Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said that nation had not given the PPP mandate to restore judiciary but it entrusted the mandate for the provision of bread, clothing and housing.In an interview with Dr. Shahid Masood program on Geo news, Asif Zardari said reinstatement of judiciary would be under a constitutional package expected in two weeks. Coalition partners PML-N and PPP have had negotiations in Dubai over the reinstatement of judiciary.Powered by: Awaz apni Baat apni
A Constitutional Package to get rid of Justice once and for all
2008-04-27 01:00:00 “A tamed judiciary suiting the Presidency and the PPP-led government is being tailored to give the shock of their lives to those who simplistically took the Murree Declaration seriously and trusted the words of the top political leaders.” - Ansar Abbasi What we dont realise is what we are in for. An elected government, people’s representatives. People ...
?We are extending Fourth Amendment (constitutional) rights to a terrorist f
2008-04-24 11:57:00 Clifford D May writes on National Review.com about the possibility of a nuclear weapon being detonated on American soil, and the inability of our intelligence services to find the information needed to prevent it: Gary Anthony Ackerman, research director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, also recently told Congress that ?the prospect of terrorists detonating a nuclear device on American soil sometime within the next quarter-century is real and growing.? And Cham D. Dallas, who directs the Institute for Health Management and Mass Destruction Defense at the University of Georgia, says flatly: ?It?s inevitable.? Testifying before a Senate hearing this month, he added: ?I think it?s wistful to think that it won?t happen by 20 years.? Fear-mongering, right? Not so much. The tactic of terrorism will be used to try to defeat the United States, and the stakes will be raised to do it. Detonating a nuclear weapon on American soil would be dev...
Oklahoma: Right to Hunt Constitutional Amendment to be Heardon the House Fl
2008-04-22 17:31:00 As soon as Tuesday, April 22, the Oklahoma House of Representatives is scheduled to hear SJR38, authored by State Senator Glenn Coffee (R-30) and State Representative Randy Terrill (R-53).
By: Gun News
The Constitutional Amendment Against Spending
2008-04-22 15:31:00 Devil's Advocate posted earlier this month about the new Constitutional Amendment against spending. Here is the text of the Amendment and what it means for you if it is passed. Please call your Congressman and tell him or her to support this. Spending Limit Amendment ?Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of... Click the Headline Link to Visit Copious Dissent and Read the Full Story.
Center for Constitutional Rights Supports National Lawyers Guild Call for D
2008-04-18 10:05:00 Sudhan @10:00 CET Marjorie Cohn | Global Research, April 17, 2008 On April 1, a secret 81-page memo written by former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo in March 2003 was made public. In that memo, Yoo advised the Bush administration that the Department of Justice?s Office of Legal Counsel would not enforce U.S. criminal laws, including ...
By: Suzie-Q
Rep. Michele Bachmann and a Constitutional Amendment Against Wasteful Spend
2008-04-15 22:00:00 Representative Michele Bachmann again is coming out on the side of sanity. She is proposing a Constitutional Amendment to limit wasteful spending in Washington. I am told that it would mirror many of her proposals found within the Taxpayer Bill of Rights back in Minnesota. Essentially, the amendment would ensure that the growth in government spending should never exceed the growth of our... Click the Headline Link to Visit Copious Dissent and Read the Full Story.
Illinois Constitutional Convention
2008-04-14 21:45:00 Warner Todd Huston , a fellow Grizzly Groundsweller, has written an excellent post about the 20 year Constitutional Convention(ConCon)in Illinois' constitution. Inarticle14 ofthe Illinois Constitution, that every 20 years the citizens can call a ConCon to consider chagesto the Illinois...
By: Stix Blog
Florida HB 503 erodes no constitutional right
2008-04-11 19:43:00 It would be prudent for members of your Editorial Board to at least read the Constitution before claiming that HB 503’s protection of the constitutional right to keep and bear arms and the right of self-defense erodes another constitutional right. What other right does it erode? The answer is none. Click Here to watch a ...
By: Gun News
FLDS members claim raid breaches constitutional rights
2008-04-08 07:48:00 For the first time, the FLDS have responded to the state raid on the YFZ Ranch that began last Thursday and is just now nearing completion. In five filings released today, Isaac Jeffs and Merrill Jessop said the sect's constitutional rights were violated in a massive search that was overly broad and vague in its focus.
Conservative Constitutional Lawyer Endorses Barack Obama For President.
2008-04-07 15:36:00 Find out more here. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: Osi Speaks!
Eighteenth Constitutional Amendment
2008-04-06 09:51:00 Lo and behold, after the notorious 17th amendment (courtesy to the National Hypocrite Fazlur Rehman), a new amendment is in offing. But the purpose of this amendment is noble. The prime objective cited of this amendment is to abolish the hotch-potch in the constitution made by various military and civilian goverments in one go. According to ...
Constitutional lawyer: Bush ?ordered war crimes?
2008-04-05 12:19:00 anthony @ 11:17 BST Nick Juliano | Raw Story | Friday, April 4, 2008 This week’s revelation of another secret Bush administration memo that seemed to eliminate any boundaries on the treatment of detainees added to the already substantial evidence that US military and intelligence interrogators have abused and perhaps even tortured prisoners rounded up during the ...
By: Suzie-Q
Turkey Constitutional Crisis Worries European Union
2008-04-02 10:05:00 During the past few years, Turkey has been governed by the Justice and Development Party(AKP) which is based on Islamist principles. The Turkish nation for nearly a hundred years has been committed to secular ideas that derive from its founder, Ataturk. Prime Minister Erdogan and President Gul have aroused controversy by their efforts to end ...
Can a Constitutional Convention Fix Illinois? Broken Government?
2008-04-02 04:18:00 Illinois voters will be presented with an historical opportunity to fix the structural problems that plague Illinois government and fix deficiencies and loopholes in our current constitution. There are problems that can only be fixed in a constitution but the entrenched interests have come out saying a convention is unnecessary. Here is why they ...
Ensuring Constitutional Authority
2008-04-01 15:00:00 You wouldn’t think we would need legislation requiring Congress to identify the Constitutional authority pursuant to which its actions are taken. However, after the Federal Government overstepping its Constitutional permitted bounds for decades (and Court activism condoning same), some in the House of Representatives are restarting their effort to pass such an act. The “Enumerated Powers ...
Constitutional right to life
2008-03-28 09:25:00 Joseph Farah makes a great point: “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States ...
Constitutional right to life
2008-03-28 09:25:00 Joseph Farah makes a great point: “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States ...
Fox Defends Constitutional Right To Broadcast Whipped-Cream-Covered Strippe
2008-03-26 05:34:00 For a few moments I’ve become a fan of Fox, and even Rupert Murdoch. Fox is standing up to the FCC on their ridiculous fines for “indecency” and fighting for the right to broadcast whipped-cream-covered strippers. Freedom of expression is freedom of expression after all. The Washington Post reports: In an unusually aggressive step, Fox ...
By: Liberal Values
Legislators push to make hunting constitutional right
2008-03-07 19:01:00 Some state lawmakers want to make the ability to hunt and fish a constitutional right in hopes of keeping their colleagues - and voters - from deciding that people shouldn`t be allowed to hunt.
By: Gun News
Supreme Court rules resident register network constitutional
2008-03-07 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for the first time that the computerized Basic Resident Register Network is constitutional, overturning an earlier Osaka High Court ruling and dismissing claims by residents opposed to the network.The top court's ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed by residents in the Osaka Prefecture cities of Moriguchi and Suita who had claimed that the network violated their privacy and was therefore unconstitutional. Earlier, the Osaka ...
Malaysia Constitutional Democratic Election 2008
2008-03-06 04:09:00 Malaysia Constitutional Democratic Election by Andrew K H TanComing this March 8 2008The Constitution of Malaysia requires that a general election must be held at least once every five years, Malaysian citizen would be going to cast their votes and carried out their citizen responsibilities and constitutional rights.Malaysian can check their electoral information at Election Commission of Malaysia online with efficient and transparency.http://daftarj.spr-.gov.my/daftarbi.asprelated linksElection Commission of Malaysia : http://www.spr.gov.myMalaysia General Election 2008 News & Resulthttp://www.pilihanraya.co-m.my/english/index.asp
The President Will Comply With ALL Of His Constitutional Perogatives...
2008-03-05 21:14:00 The Constitution is a document it is not a hypothetical.Ackerman: Is there any way in the world that [Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki] thinks that we are going to defend Iraq if Iraq is attacked? Satterfield: Mr. Chairman, the secretary of defense, secretary of state, the president, the vice president in all of their conversations with the prime minister and other senior Iraqi officials have been quite clear on what our intent is in Iraq, what our obligations are in Iraq and what they are not. I do not believe such a potential misunderstanding exists.Ackerman: Has this been explicitly explained to him that, if Iraq is attacked, that we have no obligation to enter into any combat missions?Satterfield: The secretary of defense has made very clear exactly those points.Ackerman: And Mr. Maliki is satisfied with that assurance or non-assurance or lack of assurance? . . .Satterfield: Mr. Chairman, Prime Minister Maliki is strongly supportive, as we understand, for the initiation of n...
By: NO Exit...
Constitutional Crisis - No More Presidents
2008-02-28 13:32:00 Several recent articles discussed the potential problem McCain may have should he become the Republican party nominee. Apparently McCain was born on a US base in Panama where his parents were stationed. McCain is not the first to face such a question -- Lowell Weicker, George Romney, and more recently Barry Goldwater preceded him. The issue is apparently not fully resolved by the Supreme Court simply because it never reached it. So while most Americans, whether they are for or against McCain, think that he should be qualified, legal scholars are not so sure. It all stems from a small paragraph in the constitution: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been... Click on the article title to read the full article.
Bush?s Life of Constitutional Crime: Lies and Spies
2008-02-21 20:51:00 anthony @ 19:55 GMT PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS | Counterpunch | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 President George W. Bush and his director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, are telling the American people that an unaccountable executive branch is necessary for their protection. Without the Protect America Act, Bush and McConnell claim, the executive branch will not be able to ...
By: Suzie-Q
Does John McCain Meet Constitutional Requirements to be President?
2008-02-18 01:16:00 There’s an interesting challenge to John McCain’s candidacy, courtesy of the internet. (No wonder he wants to eliminate net neutrality!) The question at hand is whether Senator McCain meets the guidelines set forth by the US Constitution to serve as the President of the United States of America. I admit that it’s a bit ...
By: KTracy.com
Hillary Clinton Refuses To Pledge to Restore Constitutional Liberties
2008-02-08 03:25:00 Hillary Clinton and John McCain are two presidential candidates who have something in common. The Nation reports that they have not signed a statement supporting “the restoration of basic Constitutional principles after the battering they have taken during the Bush-Cheney era.” Every Democratic candidate except Hillary Clinton has supported this pledge during the campaign. Needless to ...
By: Liberal Values
Meghalaya’s tribal leaders seek constitutional status
2008-02-06 09:07:00 Meghalaya’s three major tribal groups have sought constitutional recognition of their tribal chiefs from the central government. Twenty representatives belonging to three predominant tribal groups from Meghalya-- Khasi, Jaintia and Garo—were in New Delhi to demand that their traditional institutions be integrated with Constitutional bodies. The tribal representatives presented their demands before Mani Shankar Aiyar, the Union Minister for Development of the north eastern region (DONER) and Panchayatai Raj. They were invited by the Centre for the first time. During the meeting that lasted almost half-an-hour, the tribal leaders urged the government to set up a party-less upper house for chiefs and rulers of the groups to meet the aspirations of their community. They, however, failed to get any assurance from the Union Minister Mani Shankar Ayer. Ayer said: “It is for them in Meghalaya to come to a conclusion among themselves as to how they would like to weld thei...
By: B4U India
The Case for an Illinois Constitutional Convention
2008-01-27 03:17:00 Governor Rod Blagojevich has done something remarkable in Illinois. He has managed to unite people across the political spectrum to create consensus that he absolutely stinks as a governor. Illinois deserves better than Rod Blagojevich. Because of his low approval in both parties and the budget fiasco of last year, legislators (even those in ...
Montana Gov? to Chertoff: ?No Way No How!?
2008-01-22 17:08:00 GEF @ 10:08 AM MST Montana Governor Foments Real ID Rebellion Montana governor Brian Schweitzer (D) declared independence Friday from federal identification rules and called on governors of 17 other states to join him in forcing a showdown with the federal government which says it will not accept the driver’s licenses of rebel states’ citizens starting May ...
By: Suzie-Q
Republicans Say Warrantless Surveillance Of Terrorists Constitutional
2008-01-21 20:26:00 And they used something the Dems tend to like to either not read, not understand, or rewrite Authority to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance comes from the Constitution and is vital to stopping foreign terrorist attacks and spies, says a Republican staff assessment of the revised Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. “There is nothing new or aggressive about relying ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Constitutional Responses to Terrorism, by US Rep. Ron Paul
2008-01-20 07:00:00 It has been over 6 years since the atrocities of September 11 were committed and there are still some very basic measures that need to be taken to bring the perpetrators to justice and make America safer. I have proposed legislation to help with these efforts and will continue to fight in Congress for the safety and security of the American people. My legislation entitled The Marque and Reprisal Act of 2007 (HR 3216) makes the surgical strike option available to the President in our mission to capture Bin Laden. Our military has been pursuing him without result for far too long now, and it is high time ALL constitutional tools were utilized in the hunt for this dangerous madman. As an American it sickens me to know that Bin Laden and top leaders of al Qaeda remain at large and thumbing their noses at us, while we unravel the sacred fabric of our constitution out of fear. It is Osama Bin Laden and the perpetrators of terrorist attacks that ought to be afraid of us, not the other ...
With Friends Like These Who Needs Enemies ?!
2008-01-11 00:56:00 GEF @ 4:51 PM MST 2005 Use of Gas by Blackwater Leaves Questions By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON ? The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and United States military personnel. Suddenly, on that May day in 2005, the copter dropped CS gas, a riot-control ...
By: Suzie-Q
Constitutional Review by Some Guy: Part Two
2008-01-10 14:35:00 Let us move on now to Article II, the much shorter piece that deals with the chief executive. The most important thing to note about this article ? in terms of current events at least, is the process by which our presidents are elected. The wool is off my eyes now, and I finally understand; my vote truly does not matter. The votes of the Electors (whoever they are), are what decides this race from start to finish. There is not one mention in this document ? the legal foundation of our republic - of the people choosing the president, not one. What is telling about this little discussed fact, is the effect that it has had on the vibrancy of our democracy over the last twenty or thirty years. In the popular mind, it is the election of the president that matters. Presidential candidates get even the most apathetic and jaded of us involved in the process to some extent. This has only been amplified by the new strides in citizen journalism o...
Limited Constitutional Republic In Trouble
2008-01-09 18:03:00 With the fierce attacks and general media black out of the only principled, limited government presidential candidate in the current crop of otherwise willingly plunderous wannabe “world improvers”, it is becoming increasingly clear that, unless folks who care about their unalienable rights as sovereign individuals stand up, speak out and work hard for the cause ...
By: Ponderthis...
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