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Forum Post: The Liberty Amendments

Posted 10 years ago on Aug. 18, 2013, 11:13 a.m. EST by ladisia (-44)
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Mark Levin is proposing ten amendments to the Constitution. Each one is written in thoughtful language so as to preclude any ancillary problems:

1) Term Limits: He proposes limiting service in both the House and Senate to 12 years. Yes, we’ve heard all the arguments about elections being the best limit. But the past 100 year has proven that to be false. As someone who works day and night to throw the bums out, I can tell you that is nearly impossible to throw them out with the amount of money they raise – precisely for their abuses of power. Levin also proves that limiting time in office was a highly regarded proposal during the Constitutional Congress.

2) Repealing the 17th Amendment: Levin proposes repealing the 17th amendment and vesting state legislators with the power to elect senators so that the power of states is not diluted, as originally feared by the framers of the Constitution.

3) Restoring the Judiciary to its proper role: The Judiciary was never meant to be an all-powerful institution in which five men in robes have the final say over every major policy battle in the country. In order to end judicial tyranny, Levin proposes limiting service to one 12-year term, and granting both Congress and the state legislatures the authority to overturn court decisions with the vote of three-fifths of both houses of Congress or state legislative bodies.

4) Limiting Taxation and Spending: Levin proposes a balanced budget amendment, limiting spending to 17.5% of GDP and requiring a three-fifths vote to raise the debt ceiling. He also proposes limiting the power to tax to 15% of an individual’s income, prohibiting other forms of taxation, and placing the deadline to file one’s taxes one day before the next federal election.

5) Limiting bureaucracy: He proposes an amendment to limit and sunset federal regulations and subject the existence of all federal departments to stand-alone reauthorization bills every three years.

6) Defining the Commerce Clause: Levin writes an amendment that, while technically unnecessary, is practically an imperative to restoring the original intent of the Commerce Clause. The amendment would make it clear that the commerce clause grants not power to actively regulate and control activity; rather to prevent states from impeding commerce among other states, as Madison originally intended.

7) Limiting Federal power to take private property (restoring the takings clause and burying the eminent domain).

8) Allowing State Legislature to Amend the Constitution: Although the Framers intentionally made it difficult to amend the Constitution, they did so to preserve the Republic they created. However, the progressives have illegally altered our Republic through a silent and gradual coup without using the amendment process. If we are going to successfully push the aforementioned amendments, we will need an easier mechanism to force them through. The proposed amendment allows states to bypass Congress and propose an amendment with support of just two-thirds of the states (instead of three-fourths) and without convening a convention.

9) State Authority to Override Congress: A proposed amendment to allow states to override federal statutes by majority vote in two-thirds of state legislatures. The last two proposals are rooted in the idea that the states only agreed to the Constitution on condition that their power would not be diluted and that all federal power is derived from the states.

10) Protecting the Vote: A proposal to require photo ID for all federal elections and limit early voting.

Taken as a whole, there is no doubt that these amendments would restore our Republican form of government. Every proposal is backed up by scholarly analysis of the Framers’ view on the proposal, an overview of what has changed since the founding, and the rationale for why the proposal is necessary.

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[-] 2 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

Mark's the right wing heir to Breitbart/Limbaugh, etc.

This might as well be cribbed from FLAKESnews.

It's certainly flaky enough.

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[-] 2 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

It's not like the soap opera of the banned will say word about it.

Believe it or not, they never have.

Leo came up with the effective counter argument.

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[-] 2 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

8 in particular, but I much prefer Leo's amendments.

On the other hand, right wing media has been pushing the "liberty amendments for a very long time.

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[-] 2 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

Right wing AM talk shows are saturated in most of the Nation, perhaps in Vermont it's not?

They have attempted to saturate the forum with some of them.

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[-] 2 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

If you are feeling a bit sleepy while driving?

It's guaranteed to wake you up screaming.................:)

And sometimes?

It's good to know, what the right wing is saturating itself with. At least to the limits of your tolerance.

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[-] 2 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

At least you'll know what hit you....................:)

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[-] 2 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

What's not funny, is the level of saturation of these people and their tripe.

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[-] -1 points by TropicalDepression (-45) 10 years ago

Thats funny you refer to it as a soap opera, totally care free to any one else except for yourself.

That type of attitude is why we had no leaders fyi.

When was the last time you did something nice for a stranger?

[-] 2 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

Yesterday, although I fail to see what that has to do with the soap opera of the banned.

Bot boys inc.

Puppet runners.

Or just folks like yourself who fail to grasp the concept.

[-] -1 points by TropicalDepression (-45) 10 years ago

And meanwhile I post something and get called a lying whore and a fuk repeatedly, and that thing is still here. The comment too. Not even removed.

[-] 2 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

I find the language around here timesome at times too.

ZD?

I guess it's because there's been times he's taken the brunt of it.

As have I.

Besides, you have little room to talk on that anyway.

You've been quit the little name caller yourself,..............and I have never heard a word about that within the soap opera "community".

But at any rate.

Bots and puppets are still running, as I'm sure you're well aware, which I can only surmise is why you refuse to condemn their use..........EVER!.

[-] -1 points by TropicalDepression (-45) 10 years ago

I prefer to focus on solutions.

Instead of acting like the Us government and addressing distress with aggression, perhaps you could figure out why people are pissed.

Or you could just fight the uproar with bombs like the elite do.

[-] 2 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

Fuck 'em. Listen up, if you have to have more than one ID to get a message out then you don't have a message. If you have to be deceptive to say your message than you're a worthless piece of shit. It's real simple shit here, Jeremy.

[-] -1 points by TropicalDepression (-45) 10 years ago

And yet we have Mr Cartoon whom EVERYONE knows has about 3-4 Ids, and is allowed to do whatever.

Alls I, personally, would like to see is balance. Fairness. Thats it. We've all deserved to get banned at certain times, and yet only some do.

I dont get it.

[-] 2 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

You aren't interested in balance or fairness. Let me repeat this because you are being intentionally obtuse: if you have to have more than one ID to get a message out then you don't have a message. If you have to be deceptive to say your message than you're a worthless piece of shit. It's real simple shit here, Jeremy.

Nobody give a damn about Copy Pasta Man II. He knew the risks when he picked up more than one ID and now he has to deal with the consequences as well.

[-] -1 points by TropicalDepression (-45) 10 years ago

So you are saying Copu Pasta Man is a worthless piece of shit?

PS- something/one taking your id isnt the same as intentionally using multiple ones to have conversations with yourself of whatever.

So far there are no consequences for 4 ID man.

[-] 2 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

[-] 0 points by TropicalDepression (83) 0 minutes ago

We've had this conversation in private ad naseum. I dont create IDs for the sakes of causing havoc. ↥twinkle ↧stinkle permalink


and yet............you defend that shit like it was your own. Then profess to not comprehend it. Odd that.

[-] -1 points by TropicalDepression (-45) 10 years ago

Defend? I no sooner defend that than I would terrorism. But if the answer to it is the same as the states- crush it all 100% at the expense of everyone else- than how are we any better than them?

Is there a slight chance there could be a hacker on an occupy site at teh same time as I? Perhaps?

[-] 2 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

[-] -1 points by TropicalDepression (83) 1 minute ago

Apparently it was from Sweden :)

How the hell am I suppose to know. The more this place becomes empty, the more the remaining few are attacked. ↥twinkle ↧stinkle permalink


You know perfectly. So, explain it's purpose.

I like to pretend the Old Swede has a little more class.

[-] 0 points by TropicalDepression (-45) 10 years ago

We've had this conversation in private ad naseum. I dont create IDs for the sakes of causing havoc.

[-] 2 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

[-] 0 points by TropicalDepression (83) 0 minutes ago

Well why dont you make some noise about the fact that people keep getting their IDs yanked if you want the same one for everyone. ↥twinkle ↧stinkle permalink


Because if you need that much deception to get your message out then you don't have a message. It's simple shit.

[-] -1 points by TropicalDepression (-45) 10 years ago

You are missing the entire point of what Im saying.

But what is it you are feeling deceived about?

[-] 2 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

[-] 0 points by TropicalDepression (83) 1 minute ago

Well what do you care about then, lets start there.

If you could give a fuck whether I get banned, then why would you expect any respect in return? ↥twinkle ↧stinkle permalink


Respect is something that is earned. Not freely given. Once upon a time, you had that. No. We are starting here: if you have to have more than one ID to get a message out then you don't have a message. If you have to be deceptive to say your message than you're a worthless piece of shit. It's real simple shit here, Jeremy.

[-] -1 points by TropicalDepression (-45) 10 years ago

Well why dont you make some noise about the fact that people keep getting their IDs yanked if you want the same one for everyone.

[-] 2 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

[-] -1 points by TropicalDepression (83) 4 minutes ago

I joined here after I had been to the first couple occupy events.

As far as why people are pissed at a very few, like I said, it can either be dealt with openly through discussion, or can be dealt with heavy handed. ↥twinkle ↧stinkle permalink


You must have me confused with someone else. I don't give a flying fuck why you and yours are pissed. You need that much deception to get a message across? You don't have a message.

[-] -1 points by TropicalDepression (-45) 10 years ago

Well what do you care about then, lets start there.

If you could give a fuck whether I get banned, then why would you expect any respect in return?

[-] 2 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

http://occupywallst.org/users/louisa/


What kind of asstardian shit is that?

There is your fucking fair and balanced. How's that fucking working out for you?

[-] -2 points by TropicalDepression (-45) 10 years ago

I joined here after I had been to the first couple occupy events.

As far as why people are pissed at a very few, like I said, it can either be dealt with openly through discussion, or can be dealt with heavy handed.

[-] 2 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

[-] 0 points by TropicalDepression (83) 0 minutes ago

Oh, thats a great thing to say to someone. Thanks. ↥twinkle ↧stinkle permalink


When you are ready to be less deceptive then it can change.

[-] -1 points by TropicalDepression (-45) 10 years ago

Whats deceptive is that there is obviously a preferred few people on here who can say ANYTHING, to ANYONE, at ANYTIME

And dont have to worry about a thing. Centralized power.

I mean, honestly, how in the hell have you not been banned for saying some of the shit you have. Really?

[-] 2 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

Jeremy, you're a piece of shit. You are a lyin', connivin; bastard. You spend hours spinning bullshit. You go nowhere. Right at this moment, it isn't about Copy Pasta Man II. So, don't play that deflection from the dickless twits that insist on multiple IDs and bullshit and more importantly to push right wing tea party bullshit.

[-] -1 points by TropicalDepression (-45) 10 years ago

Oh, thats a great thing to say to someone. Thanks.

[-] 1 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

[-] 0 points by TropicalDepression (83) 3 minutes ago

Defend? I no sooner defend that than I would terrorism. But if the answer to it is the same as the states- crush it all 100% at the expense of everyone else- than how are we any better than them?

Is there a slight chance there could be a hacker on an occupy site at teh same time as I? Perhaps? ↥twinkle ↧stinkle permalink

[-] 0 points by TropicalDepression (125) 16 hours ago

Why are the bots and puppets after you is the question you should be asking. ↥twinkle ↧stinkle reply permalink http://occupywallst.org/forum/union-history-down-the-memory-hole/#comment-994819


Try again.

[-] 1 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

[-] 0 points by TropicalDepression (83) 0 minutes ago

You are missing the entire point of what Im saying.

But what is it you are feeling deceived about? ↥twinkle ↧stinkle permalink


There's nothing to miss.

What is this asstardian shit? http://occupywallst.org/users/louisa/

[-] 0 points by TropicalDepression (-45) 10 years ago

Apparently it was from Sweden :)

How the hell am I suppose to know. The more this place becomes empty, the more the remaining few are attacked.

[-] 1 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

http://occupywallst.org/users/louisa/

What kind of asstardian shit is that?

[-] 1 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

As go the States, so goes the Nation.

Act local

http://www.rickscottwatch.blogspot.com/

[-] -2 points by TropicalDepression (-45) 10 years ago

I suggest you practice what you preach.

[-] 1 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

I already do..

I would suggest you do the same.

I've been vilified for pointing out what's happening in my State.

YOU?

You excuse what's happening in yours.

[-] 1 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

I didn't call that dumbass a whore in English. But, you know, the day is still young.

[-] -1 points by ladisia (-44) 10 years ago

How does 2 curb access to the polls? Do you even understand what you read?

On number 6, yes and that's a good thing. I would like CONGRESS to make laws. Not some federal bureaucrazy of paper pushers that can never be voted out, even though they do great damage to the country. Madison was not a Republican BTW.

Numbers 8 and 9 are awesome. The less Washington DC let's shit roll down hill, the better. Those assholes don't even have to live by the rules they make for the rest of us. This place is turning into a dictatorship. Fook you, ya little authoritarian.

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[-] -2 points by ladisia (-44) 10 years ago

Crackpot alert ^^^

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[-] -1 points by Builder (4202) 10 years ago

I thought it was the sound, of silence....

[-] 2 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

What was that? It's so hard to hear you while you're on your knees and with your mouth full.

The book, which offers ten constitutional amendments, evokes a certain idealism that would be endearing if the consequences to the lives of millions weren't so horrific. Levin's proposals, of course, set the conservative media's heart aflutter.

Rush Limbaugh gave the book a ringing endorsement, saying on his radio program: "The Constitution's bastardized. It's been bastardized for years. It's been shredded for years. It needs to be reaffirmed. And Levin's book is a series of ideas of how to do it that involves the American people."

Levin isn't just another radio host, as Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus recently said he was receptive to the idea of Levin and Sean Hannity moderating a 2016 Republican presidential primary debate.

In The Liberty Amendments, Levin lays out a conservative dystopian nightmare. Among the most toxic of his ideas would be the redefinition of the Commerce Clause to wipe out nearly all the hard fought protections of the 20th century. By arguing that the federal government's powers under Article 1, Section 8 have been unjustly expanded by the Supreme Court, Levin implicitly acknowledges this debate is over. Instead of accepting this, Levin seeks to alter the clause by limiting the definition of interstate commerce explicitly to "preventing states from impeding commerce and trade between and among the several States."

The results would be disastrous with nearly every legislative achievement since the New Deal wiped out. The Fair Labor Standard Act that established a minimum wage and outlawed child labor would be a thing of the past.

But Mark Levin's proposal to overturn decades of Supreme Court precedent in order to radically redefine the Commerce Clause is not only an assault on the fair labor laws of the New Deal, it would also endanger seminal civil rights laws and national law enforcement authority. http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/19/mark-levins-electoral-kryptonite/195471

[-] -2 points by ladisia (-44) 10 years ago

Media Matters - the talking head of George Soros, Marxist extraordinaire!

[-] 3 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

Go back to your team leader and tell 'em you failed, you fucking piece of shit Koch whoring teathuglican. :D

[-] 2 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/19/glenn-beck-to-oprah-winfrey-you-disgust-me-video/

Um........Soros is a dyed in the wool capitalist.

Unless you're Beck.

fool.

[-] 2 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/08/16/limbaugh-reaction-to-rodeo-clown-in-obama-mask/195445

Says the Nazi King.

I hear the commies hide under your bed too..

You better go check, it's getting late.

[-] 1 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

LOL

Yer silly and anally fixated.

http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/08/19/limbaugh-hillary-clinton-playing-racial-politic/195473

Yeah, that's real commie stuff there.

If you're a Beck, or FLAKESnews fan.

But you know what they say.

FLAKESnews, makes flakes, even flakier.

[-] -2 points by louisa (-25) 10 years ago

you remind me of russian. strong boy with strong words. it is cute.

[-] 1 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

I love the way that you pretend that you aren't a Teathuglican and then support and say Teathuglican crap. It's cute.

[-] -2 points by louisa (-25) 10 years ago

what is theathuglican? i did not learn that word. i just arrived in us. my english not very good.

[-] 1 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

Here, you are a teathuglican. Your English is fine. Only asstards write with an accent.

[-] -2 points by louisa (-25) 10 years ago

i will look in dictionary. teathuglican and asstards are new words today. i only know simple word.

[-] 1 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

Simple words for your simple mind.

[-] -2 points by louisa (-25) 10 years ago

Ти ниси добра особа.

[-] 1 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

Ви сте зло трол.

[-] 4 points by LeoYo (5909) 10 years ago

The Free Democracy Amendments

1. Barring violation to the rights of others, the right of a free people to be secure in their individual decisions of personal safety, ingestion, expression, activity, association, and property, shall not be violated without due process of law.

2. The freedom from direct taxation being necessary for the right of a free people to be sovereign in the ownership of their labor and of their property, the imposition of direct taxation shall be prohibited at all levels of government allowing for only indirect taxation with tax deductions for non-patrons of social welfare services.

3. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

4. Barring conviction for either treason or for voting fraud, the right of all mentally coherent adult citizens to vote at all levels of government shall be guaranteed, the violation of which shall be punishable with equivalence to an act of treason.

5. The right of a politically free and democratic people to engage in Initiative, Referendum, and Recall, to have all of their votes counted, and to be without the undemocratic imposition of an electoral college, shall be guaranteed at all levels of government.

6. The provision of Patriot Dollars to voters for the sole funding of political campaigns at all levels of government shall be enacted to keep political campaigns free from the undemocratic influences of monied interests that shall be prohibited from funding any political advertisements outside of political campaigns.

7. The offering or acceptance of any item or service of value including but not limited to the offering or acceptance of future employment involving a public official or candidate for public office of any branch or level of government shall be prohibited and punishable with equivalence to an act of treason.

8. All communication to take place between a lobbyist and a public official shall be public and open to the press, the violation of which shall be punishable with equivalence to an act of treason.

9. The separation of corporation and state being necessary for the independence of a democratic government in serving the needs of the people, no public service shall be under the management of a private sector entity and each State of the United States shall have a state bank collectively forming the Union Reserve Bank of the United States with a state appointed bank official from each State to compose the Union Board of Governors exercising all the responsibilities of the Open Market Committee.

10. Any private business acquiring a national market share large enough to be a detriment to the national economy upon the business' failure shall undergo divestment into smaller units assessed to be economically secure for fallibility in the national economy.

http://occupywallst.org/forum/free-democracy-amendment/

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[-] 1 points by MattLHolck (16833) from San Diego, CA 10 years ago

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As someone who works day and night to throw the bums out, I can tell you that is nearly impossible to throw them out with the amount of money they raise – precisely for their abuses of power.

That or change who has the money

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[-] -1 points by ladisia (-44) 10 years ago

Yes, the establishment likes that top-down iron-fisted soviet style authoritarian power.

It seems many in OWS are beholden to just that also.

[-] 2 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

You're either paid to post this shit or one of the dumbest fucks breathing. A little from column A and a little from column B.

[-] 1 points by MattLHolck (16833) from San Diego, CA 10 years ago

but agreeing without complaint tangent or extension doesn't leave an opening for further words

[-] 1 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

The Tea Party is still waiting.

[-] 2 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

You're such a little right wing teathuglican.

[-] -1 points by ladisia (-44) 10 years ago

Uh huh, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Time to change your tampon, bitch. Get on with it.

[-] 2 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

Tea Party Nation called. They need you to get on your knees again for the Koch heads. Hurry now.

[-] 1 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

For real man!!!

That's what Beck said just the other day.

And that racist Oprah lady!!!

OMG!

We're doomed!

Doomed I tell ya! Doomed!

Agenda 21 will eat us alive!!!