Constitution
Posted at 5:28pm on Jun. 11, 2008 Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saulius "Saul" Anuzis Warns voters of stealth petition campaign
By saul anuzis
Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saulius "Saul" Anuzis warns Michigan voters of a stealth petition drive to amend the Michigan Constitution. Please let the Michigan Republican Party know if you've seen this:
Posted at 8:52pm on Apr. 14, 2008 In Retrospect: The 3/5ths Clause of the Constitution
By Martin A. Knight
And Now For Something Completely Different ...
liberalrepublican's comment here on the Framers of the Constitution tsk-tsking their ignominy in "signing a document that says that recognizes and legitimizes slavery and counts a slave as 60% man ..." reminded me of an experience I had sometime in the not-so-distant past - especially after reading simpson316 say it's "far better than nothing."
My response to that is ... no. It would have been much better if slaves had not been counted at all.
I remember telling a black liberal friend I was having a friendly (Right V Left) argument with that I wish slaves had counted for far less than 3/5ths of a human being when the Constitution was written. I said that 0% actually would have been the ideal, but 20% would have been okay with me. The conversation got a little less friendly (I got called an "Uncle Tom") until I gave him a small history lesson ... and he ended up agreeing with me.
The 3/5ths Clause, ultimately, was a Good Thing. And if it had been the 1/5ths Clause, it would have been even better.
Of course, you need to think beyond the initial Outrage! at how one human being could be considered to be worth just 3/5ths of another human being to see what I (and GOPaisano) mean.
Not many people who huff and puff and level the accusing finger at the nation's founders about it seem to be aware that the Slave States' representatives at the Constitutional Convention were the ones demanding that slaves be counted as full persons, while the Free states' spokesmen were the ones demanding that they not be counted at all.
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Posted at 8:47am on Mar. 5, 2008 Breaking: CMU Holds Secret Expulsion Meeting, Decides Student's Fate
By RightMichigan.com
Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.
Though an end to the Gary Peters Congress or Campus battle remains elusive it looks this morning as if this particular chapter in the Dennis Lennox saga is drawing to a troubling close. At least as far as Central Michigan University is concerned.
Below you will find documents obtained by Right Michigan indicating that a top secret, back room closed-door disciplinary hearing was held while students were away on spring break. Though Lennox was convicted of a variety of offenses he was not given the chance to present a defense or to even answer the charges against him. Heck, he didn't even know the hearing had taken place, where it was or who attended.
Posted in ACLU | Archived | CMU | Congress | Constitution | Dennis Lennox | Gary Peters | Joe Knollenberg | MI-09 | Michigan — Comments (12) / Email this page » / Read More »
Posted at 10:11am on Jan. 29, 2008 URGENT ACTION ALERT: CMU to hold expulsion hearing on conservative student
By RightMichigan.com
Bumped up top and promoted by Erick. This expulsion hearing happens tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. You can contact Professor Peter Koper at peter.t.koper@cmich.edu or (989) 774-3128 and ask him to support free speech by dropping the charges. -- Erick
Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.
It wouldn't be a new semester if Central Michigan University weren't attempting to censor free speech and political thought on campus. Wait, that's not entirely true. They don't have a problem with free speech and political thought from the left. It's just the conservatives they have a problem with.
By now we all know the story of Dennis Lennox. There's not much I can add that hasn't been more eloquently stated by Mike Volpe and Chet Zarko in recent days. The kid has almost single-handedly raised the Gary Peters issue to national prominence. But just because Dennis thinks that Peters should choose between campus and Congress (in a District hundreds of miles away while violating federal campaign laws that prohibit public employees from pursuing office) doesn't mean the nut-job administrators at Central agree with him.
Quite the contrary. They're waging a very personal war against an outspoken conservative student because he dares have opinions different from theirs.
The school has targeted Lennox by banning videotaping, ignored a dean who assaulted him, directed faculty and staff to avoid the use of CMU e-mail when discussing Gary Peters because it could be released under FOIA, accused the kid of suffering from mental illness because he holds conservative political views and has an interesting haircut. They went as far as to call him the next Virginia Tech-style school shooter.
And that was all them playing nice. Well they've decided to take the gloves off and we're going to have to do the same.
Read on . . .
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Posted at 8:23am on Dec. 4, 2007 Action Alert: Stand up for the Constitution right here in Michigan
By RightMichigan.com
Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.
It's not every day that an opportunity like this comes along. Right here in the State of Michigan a public institution is attempting to not only infringe on the taxpayers right to get their money's worth (something few public institutions aren't adept at) but to actually restrict an individual's Constitutional rights.
By this point everyone's likely well aware of Dennis Lennox and his crusade to protect the taxpayers from Central Michigan University and their decision to grant a professorship to Gary Peters, a candidate for Congress some two-hundred odd miles away in Oakland County. Lennox has become a thorn in Peters' side and a constant migraine headache for the school administration which backs the Democrat candidate one-hundred and ten percent.
They've harassed Lennox, they've threatened him with expulsion and they've questioned his mental state all because he has the audacity to follow the good professor around with a video camera when he's on public property asking legitimate and reasonable questions.
Dean Pamela Gates went so far as to physically assault Lennox when he tried to serve a FOIA request for records relating to Peters.
Read on . . .
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Posted at 2:39pm on Mar. 12, 2007 A radically common-sense idea
One Congressman is hoping to blaze a trail back to America's roots -- the U.S. Constitution
By Jeff Emanuel
Last week, as was noted here on RedState at the time, conservative Congressman John Shadegg (R-AZ), as he has every session since the 104th Congress, introduced his Enumerated Powers Act in the House of Representatives. This legislation would, in his words, "require Members of Congress to include an explicit statement of Constitutional authority into each bill that is introduced.
In other words, he says, "It would hold Congress accountable for its actions."
Such a constructionist, Constitutionalist stance seems almost radical in this age of ballooning, ever-intrusive government. Indeed, the vast majority of our representatives seem to have forgotten the Tenth Amendment, which states that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." In its place, they seem to have inserted their own, which grants all non-enumerated powers, instead of to the states or to the people, to the Federal Government. As Shadegg says:
According to the Tenth Amendment, the national government cannot expand its legislative authority into areas reserved to the States or the people. It is a well-known fact that the size and scope of the federal government has exploded since the New Deal. Congress continues to operate without Constitutional restraint, creating costly and ineffective programs and blatantly ignoring the principles of federalism.
The solution? Well, Rep. Shadegg hopes that the Enumerated Powers Act - which will force Congress to cite the constitutional authority for every bill it passes - will provide that.
I recently spoke with Representative Shadegg about this bill, about what he hopes to accomplish with it, and about his frustrated attempts at getting it through a Republican-controlled Congress in the past. You can listen to the brief podcast here, or you can download it through iTunes. If you are a fan of small-government, constitutional conservatism, then it is well worth your time.
You can download my conversation with Congressman Shadegg here.
or listen here:
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