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<blockquote data-quote="Jagger" data-source="post: 422069" data-attributes="member: 16628"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> If you want to know the object of the first twelve amendments that Congress proposed to the states, just read the preamble Congress attached to them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The object of the Amendments was to </span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">"extend the ground of public confidence in the Government" in order to " best insure the beneficent ends of its institution." The means to that end was "t</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">o prevent misconstruction or abuse of the Constitution's powers." The means to prevent misconstruction or abuse were "d</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">eclaratory and restrictive clauses. "</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">There is nothing in the Preamble about protecting civil liberties for individuals and the first two amendments proposed, and presumably the most importation, had nothing whatsoever to do with individual rights.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><em>Article the first . . . After the first enumeration required by the <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/art1.asp" target="_blank">first Article</a> of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which, the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons. </em></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><em>Article the second . . . No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened. </em></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>When I endeavor to ascertain the meaning of the Constitution, I just apply the rules of legal interpretation as prevailed in the late 1780's, because they were universally accepted as the way, the only way, to interpret a constitution.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jagger, post: 422069, member: 16628"] [FONT=Arial] If you want to know the object of the first twelve amendments that Congress proposed to the states, just read the preamble Congress attached to them. The object of the Amendments was to [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]"extend the ground of public confidence in the Government" in order to " best insure the beneficent ends of its institution." The means to that end was "t[/FONT][FONT=Arial]o prevent misconstruction or abuse of the Constitution's powers." The means to prevent misconstruction or abuse were "d[/FONT][FONT=Arial]eclaratory and restrictive clauses. " There is nothing in the Preamble about protecting civil liberties for individuals and the first two amendments proposed, and presumably the most importation, had nothing whatsoever to do with individual rights. [/FONT][INDENT][FONT=Arial][I]Article the first . . . After the first enumeration required by the [URL="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/art1.asp"]first Article[/URL] of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which, the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons. [/I] [I]Article the second . . . No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened. [/I][/FONT] [/INDENT]When I endeavor to ascertain the meaning of the Constitution, I just apply the rules of legal interpretation as prevailed in the late 1780's, because they were universally accepted as the way, the only way, to interpret a constitution. [/QUOTE]
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