The Morning Constitutional: Because it's time for America to stop being full of crap.

[originalpckelly]

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

What do you think this means?

I think out of the whole thing, "we the people" is the most important. Everything else is nice colorful language, but the "we the people" is what allegedly makes us a democracy. Instead of a single person being the source of sovereignty, the people are the source of sovereignty.

It makes more sense to me that it should be that way, after all, one person can't force anyone other than a few people to do anything. The people are always in charge.

However, I have to wonder anymore if this is true. If the people are the source of power, how can it be that information can be hidden from us? Doesn't inherently make the people who control the classification of information the source of power?

I ask again, what do you think means?

[glowing]

1. I suppose its a thin line when you bring in defence and protection issues.

During wartime, there are secrets to protect ground troops and spy agents... the idea of secrets then flows into our non-wartime life because its now precedent that secrets are ok. Power is about control. Information is control. We all knew torture was happening... Now, we have the proof that it came from the top. All secret. Wartime you know.

What do you think is good to keep from the general populus?

[Bandit]

2. I think it means the sole purpose of Government is to

maintain the health and welfare of the nation. We the people are supposed to ensure that is what happens. We the people have fallen down on the job because allowing our country to torture does not insure our health and welfare of our country but just the opposite.

[grasswire]

3. it would be interesting if the second paragraph had read like this:

"Congress shall make no law respecting the abridging of the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Because, as I see it, our biggest problem is the failure of the rightful coalition between the people and the press, leading to an uninformed, cowed electorate.