Constitution for Dummies

Matthews needs a copy

 Nobody should be surprised by Matthews reaction to the speeches at the RNC convention, along with the others at MSNBC. They sided stepped being critical of Condoleeza Rice’s speech by blasting just about everybody else, mostly Ryan’s. However something Matthews said about Jefferson and the civil rights act is what caught my interest the most.

 ”very constricted, very negative, very nasty speech,” and suggested that he was directing the address to racists: “It’s clear that Paul Ryan was talking to people who think about rights as something…produced by Thomas Jefferson, ignoring the people for whom the rights only came in the 1960s.”

 Does he understand that Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and Madison wrote the Constitution? A sixth grader should know this, the Constitution was written by Madison, then changed and altered by the people at the Constitutional convention. Clearly Matthews either doesn’t know, care or had an agenda about what he said about Ryan’s speech.

 Jefferson didn’t grant us rights, neither did Madison, Washington, Franklin or anyone else for we have always had them. The Constitution confirms our natural and god given rights to those freedoms, it doesn’t provide them, it protects them. He certainly should have learned this somewhere along the line in his education but it doesn’t fit what they are promoting. Division!

The Civil Right Act

 Just for starters there are many who don’t know that more Republicans voted for the civil rights act than Democrats. Like many other laws passed after the Constitution, The civil rights act was confirming rights already granted in the Constitution that were being denied by States. It didn’t grant anybody special rights, new rights or different rights, it confirmed everyone is to be treated the same by government. The Constitution only protects you from government, a person who doesn’t work for the government can’t violate your rights. We have our laws to protect each other from each other.

 The problem with government granting rights is simple, when your grant a right to one person and deny them to another. While everyone should never accept racism, or discrimination from anyone for any reason. The question is why government gets to choose that a private individual exercising his free will to think and act how he or she believes? True freedom and liberty doesn’t come from government telling you how you must act, believe or treat others. It comes from who you are, what you believe in your heart and soul as a free person.

 Slavery was an abomination, we paid a steep price for that ignorance of not treating everyone as equals and the battle still is being waged. Government can’t change the hearts of man, only we along with our faiths can hope to overcome such stupidity. I would hope people would see through those wishing to divide us for reasons unknown to me. We should all strive to live up to Jefferson’s words,

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

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