"A president who slights the Constitution is like a rider who hates his horse: he will be thrown, and the nation along with him. The President solemnly swears to perserve, protect and defend the Constitution. He does not solemnly swear to ignore, overlook, supplement or reinterpret it......For if a President joins the powers of his office to his own willful interpretation, he steps away from a government of laws and toward a government of men."
--- Mike Pence, US Representative, Indiana's 6th Congressional District.
As many know, President Obama was a Constitutional Law Professor at the University of Chicago. Why does one study Constitutional Law? Among the reasons might be to have a better understanding of how to preserve, protect and defend it or on the other hand how to ignore, overlook, or reinterpret it. Which one is true of Mr. Obama?
And why have we set up a Republic with the Constitution as its guardian? In the same speech, Mike Pence gives a solid reason. To limit power. As he says, "Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh. ..... A republic is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal, and our actions are imperfect.
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Bernie
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