Sunday, November 2, 2008

a lesson in US History

I've had two careers in my life. In the first, I was a high school teacher of United States History. One aspect of teaching this subject was that I got to teach the US Constitution. I consider myself an expert on this since possibly none of you reading this did. Regardless, I believe that the Constitution is the greatest man made document ever written. Since the Bible is the Word of God then it is way above the Constitution. I believe the Founding Father's were placed on this earth at this time by God for the express purpose of establishing the greatest country in the history of mankind. Before I get to my main point I need to give you readers a short history lesson. When the Founding Fathers were assembled the most profound question to be settled was how would representation be achieved. Edmund Randolph of Virginia argued for representation based on the number of people in a state. For those of you who don't know, Virginia was very large in area. Around eighty years later West Virginia would be formed from that state. Other framers thought this was unfair because they didn't have nearly as many people. William Paterson of New Jersey fought for representation based equally. After a long, thought out process a compromise took place called The Great Compromise which established two legislative bodies: The Senate with equal representation(New Jersey Plan) and The House of Representatives with representation based on the number of people in a state(Virginia Plan).
Now let's get to the good stuff. The democrats(notice I NEVER write Democratic Party since there's nothing democratic about them) have run a 2008 campaign based on running against the policies of George W. Bush(pay close attention to this because in a later blog I'm going to tell why GW43 is going to go down in history as one of our better presidents).
There are three branches of government in this country:
The Legislative branch(Senate & House) that MAKES the laws.
The Judicial branch(Supreme Court & other courts that "are supposed" to interpret the laws.
The Executive branch(President) who enforces the laws enacted(passed) by the Legislative body. This would be the legislative body of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid
If you people would take the time to check out the economic situation of the US of A when the Democrats took over the Congress from the Republicans after the election of 2006 one might ask themselves, "what the hell is going on in this country"? Look it up on the net. It's everywhere.
Finally, think about this: When the Founding Father's were in Philly crossing the t's and dotting the i's can you imagine the laughter, hoots and hollers if Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid had been there.
Oh, and by the way, Nancy is still third in line to be President of the United States.
Note: Three days ago was the 10th anniversary of an executive order signed by Bill Clinton calling for regime change in Iraq. Get it? Bill Clinton called for the US to go into Iraq and throw the bum out. George Bush did it and has been pilloried by the loser party since he took the oath of office.

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