Mike Explains Why There Is A Written Constitution

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After you listen to Mike’s explanation of why we have a written Constitution, listen to this angry caller’s reply, he seems to be upset that Mike is not singing from the same talk radio Hymnal as everyone else:

 

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Audio and Transcript – The people are sovereign.  They choose to form a government.  They grant some power to that government in writing with a binding document, call it a constitution.  When the people that execute the power exceed the grant, then they are removed.  It’s as simple as that.  If you’re not willing to do that, then good luck with your term limits. Good luck with cutting people’s hands and feet off.  Good luck with trying to censor their investments and medical care.  Good luck with all that.  You will get the exact same result that you have now, but you may have some people that do some fundraising on it and feel really good about it.  That is why a written first Articles of Confederation and then a Constitution was chosen as a manner to preserve the people’s liberty.

 

Begin Mike Church Show Transcript

Mike:  James is in Texas next.  I can’t believe people are not reacting to the Trump story.  I really thought that would be what would drive the conversation here today, then the adoption of the “We are here to save the Ponzi scheme called Medicare for the rest of attorney,” which has now basically become mantra in the Romney-Ryan campaign.  These are all things that have been discussed today.  I have misjudged the reaction of the audience, as I sometimes do.  Hello, James.

Caller James:  A quick way to fix Medicare and Social Security, make our senators and representatives and such have to abide by it.  They have their own insurance programs.  They have their own retirement programs.  It comes down to the fact that if it doesn’t affect them, they’re not going to fix it.  America has, by their own stupidity, created what could be deemed as an aristocracy.  You have a group of people that think they are above the people they work for.  Things will not straighten out until the people that are up in the White House and the Senate and House realize who they work for.  That’s it.

Mike:  That sounds good and sincere.  I’m sure it sounds really good at a campfire.  You’re saying things that have been said since the first senate was convened in Rome.  The only elixir or remedy that has ever given any hope and has ever restrained any of the things we’re talking about today is written expressions of granted power.  If you’re not going to get back to a written expression of a granted power, I don’t care if you tell members of Congress that when their term has ended, if there’s a budget deficit, that you’re going to cut their feet off.  They’re going to find a way around it.  They are the lawmakers.  You’re never going to achieve this, I think, fantastical dream of making these people out to be some sort of Earthly angels that discharge legislative duties.  That just defies human nature.

We know how to fix this and it’s not through term limits and not through making them one of us and all those things that sound great at a campfire or Teamsters union meeting.  It sounds great but doesn’t work.  It’s not applicable to human nature.  What is applicable and what does have a chance of working if fidelity and great attention is paid to the administration of it, is, again, to enumerate what power is granted and refuse to grant any more.  Anyone that grabs any more power is unceremoniously dealt with and may never have access to the public treasury again.  That is the only hope.  That is the last, greatest, best hope on Earth.

If you’re keeping track of this at home, that is why you have a written constitution.  For those in the nitwittery out there that think written constitutions are subject to the interpretation of the judiciary and [mocking] “They have to be able to change with the people,” they have to be able to change with the people, and if they are grants of power, you must alter the grant of power.  If you do not officially, by definition and in writing alter the grant of power and have sovereign people and sovereign entities ratify it, then you get the mobocracy that we have today.  Congratulations.  I think that is as good an explanation of how to fix all of this that you’re going to get from anyone from now until the end of time.

The people are sovereign.  They choose to form a government.  They grant some power to that government in writing with a binding document, call it a constitution.  When the people that execute the power exceed the grant, then they are removed.  It’s as simple as that.  If you’re not willing to do that, then good luck with your term limits. Good luck with cutting people’s hands and feet off.  Good luck with trying to censor their investments and medical care.  Good luck with all that.  You will get the exact same result that you have now, but you may have some people that do some fundraising on it and feel really good about it.  That is why a written first Articles of Confederation and then a Constitution was chosen as a manner to preserve the people’s liberty.

What are you doing all this for to begin with?  Are you doing it for an equitable redistribution of people’s wealth or are you doing it to preserve their God-given liberties?  Answer the question.  If you choose B, then people are sovereign.  John Adams and many of the founding generation, and certainly all those that came after, especially the Lincolnistas and especially the decepticon promoters of Lincoln are wrong.  The people are sovereign.  People are sovereign.  People choose to form a government.  That is the act of a sovereign.  When that sovereign has chosen the form of government, they then delegate or grant power.  Anyone that takes more power than has been granted needs to be treated like a common felon criminal, you won’t have these problems, or you may have them but you’ll have a manner to deal with them.

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