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Jan. 8, 1993 - Bill Cooper
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The Living Constitution
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Hello folks and once again welcome to the Hour of the Time.
It's Friday and I know that there are a lot of places where you would like to be other than by your radio.
But this is an important program.
It is so important that I urge you to stick it out.
Listen to it.
In my travels around this country I've found that this is one ingredient missing from most of the homes throughout this country Yet this is the ingredient that allows us to have the homes that we have around this country.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for
which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for
which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
The pledge of allegiance to the flag and the pledge to the ideals of our forefathers.
The men who fought and died in the building of this great nation.
It's a pledge to fulfill our duties and obligations as citizens of the United States.
It's to uphold the principles of our Constitution.
And last but not least, it's a pledge to maintain the four great freedoms cherished by all Americans.
Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
To the Republic for which it stands One nation under God
Indivisible With liberty and justice for all
The purpose of this show, the Hour of the Time, is to acquaint everyone, worldwide,
with the ideals and the principles that this country, the United States of America, was
founded upon.
And to re-educate those who have forgotten those principles and those ideals.
Because I believe that there's a cancer growing in the world today.
One that is propelling us into a new world, totalitarian socialist order.
And I believe that can only happen because of the apathy, the abdication of responsibility, and the ignorance of all of the people of the world who will allow this to happen.
Values are falling by the wayside.
It is now good to do wrong and wrong to do good.
It is the purpose of this program to reacquaint the world with the principles that finally set men free.
You see, before the establishment of the Constitution of the United States of America and its Bill of Rights, all people in the entire world belonged to someone else.
They belonged to the Pope, or to the king, or to their master, or to some lord, or to some sultan.
But no one, no one in the entire history of the world had ever been truly free.
With the establishment of the Constitution of the United States of America and this nation, man had reached the pinnacle of all the striving of humankind throughout history and stood as a sovereign king in his own right with the government for the first time ever in the history of the world as his chattel servant.
Now we see the roles going back to the old way reversing once again where the government is becoming all powerful and man is once again being relegated to the position of property of someone or something else.
And it is only because we have forgotten.
When you see children who seem aimless, who seem to have no hope, who are pursuing a life of crime and degradation, it is because they do not understand those principles.
It's because they see no hope.
They see no future.
They see no way out of the trap that they have been relegated into.
Listeners, it does not make any difference who I am or where I come from.
It makes a difference what I stand for.
So that you will not fall into the trap of the disinformation artists who will attempt to discredit everything that I'm saying because they do not want these principles to be remembered.
Think of me as the worst possible human being that you can imagine.
A bank robber.
A murderer.
Someone who's committed the most dastardly of crimes, and then listen to the information that you hear on this program.
Weigh that information on its own merits.
And do not believe a thing that you hear on this show, or on the 6 o'clock news, or on the BBC, or on Radio Moscow, from George Bush, from Mr. Gorbachev, or from your own mother.
For the deception in the world that's being promulgated by those who would change the world, is so deep that indeed short people are in danger of drowning.
It is my hope that the information that you hear on this show which will consist mainly of suppressed information that you will never ever hear in the mainstream media of any country will help to set us free.
I believe in the saying of a great man Seek ye the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
I believe that information is the power of the nineties, not money.
And I believe that those who are well informed, and those who read and absorb information on a great scale from every source, not just the source that you subscribe to, or just the beliefs that you subscribe to, but from every source that there is.
And don't discount the information put out by your enemies.
Simply because to win a battle you must know your enemy and the one who has the most information usually will emerge as the victor.
I want to thank all of those people who have helped me throughout the years.
I would also like to thank all the wonderful people at WWCR in Nashville, Tennessee who have helped to make this show become a reality.
For it is only when you can reach large numbers of people throughout the world that a message is able to transcend all of the blocks and the obstacles put before it.
This is not a religious show and I will not preach to you ever.
But religion will enter into the discussion on many of these shows simply because at the root of what is happening today are religious events that happened centuries ago and they must be addressed.
Tonight you are going to hear the Living Constitution.
Get out your tape recorders and make sure you have a pencil and paper with you all throughout this show so that you can jot down notes at the break and at the end of the show I'm going to give you some phone numbers and an address that you need to write to.
I believe that you cannot understand any of the information that you are going to get in the coming weeks and months and years on this program without a knowledge of the Constitution of the United States of America and all of the amendments thereof.
No matter what country you live in or what language you speak, record this broadcast,
listen to it over and over again and then you will understand why the United States
of America was such a great, great nation and why it is declining in its greatness now
that people have forgotten these principles and most Americans do not have a copy of the
Constitution and indeed do not even know what it says.
To carry on the war of independence and hence to secure their unalienable rights to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the 13 American colonies banded together in 1776
As the United States of America.
When the war was finally won, the new nation was confronted by many grave responsibilities.
And it was soon realized that a strong federal government was needed to represent the mutual interests of the states and protect the rights of individual citizens.
In 1787, delegates from the states met in Philadelphia to draw up a constitution adequate to the needs of the Union.
The 55 delegates included such men as Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington.
It took them four full months to complete their task.
Yet, in retrospect, that was a remarkably short time.
But what these dedicated, farsighted men achieved was nothing less than a permanent framework of government.
A unique pattern for a democratic way of life.
From that long ago day to this, the Constitution of the United States has been the living heart and spirit of our nation.
A bridge then amended from time to time according to the will of the people, its broad concept ever subject to interpretation in the light of changing conditions.
This great document is today as it was in 1787, Mankind's most inspired design for the self-government of a free people.
The supreme law of the land.
The living constitution of the United States.
We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do our aim and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The first three articles of the Constitution provide for the three branches of the federal government.
Legislative, executive, and judicial.
Article 1.
All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in the Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states.
No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of 25 years and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers.
When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, The executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers, and shall have the sole power of impeachment.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, chosen for six years, and each Senator shall have one vote.
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States.
And who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen?
The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided.
The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States.
The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments.
When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation.
When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside.
And no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present.
Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.
But the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment according to law.
The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof.
But the Congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulation, except as to the places of choosing senators.
Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members.
Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, And with a concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.
Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same.
Accepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy.
And the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Neither house, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting.
The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law and paid out of the Treasury of the United States.
They shall in all cases, except treason, felony, and the breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the state.
And for any speech or debate in either house, they shall not be questioned in any other place.
All bills to raise in revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.
But the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills.
Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States.
If he approves, he shall sign it.
But if not, he shall return it with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections on their journal and proceed to reconsider it.
If after such reconsideration two-thirds of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent together with the objections to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered.
And if approved by two-thirds of that house, it shall become a law.
But in all such cases, the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each house respectively.
If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days,
Sunday's accepted, it shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it,
unless the Congress, by their adjournment, prevent its return,
in which case it shall not be a law.
Article 1 of the Constitution concludes with three significant sections.
The first of these sets forth the powers of Congress.
And is the basis of most federal legislation.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises.
To pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.
But all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.
To borrow money on the credit of the United States.
To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states and with the Indian tribes.
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States.
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins.
And fix the standards of weights and measures.
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States.
To establish post offices and post roads.
Promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited time to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court.
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and offenses against the law of nations.
To declare war.
To raise and support armies.
But no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years.
To provide and maintain a navy.
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions.
To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia.
And for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States.
Reserving to the states, respectively, the appointment of the officers and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.
To exercise exclusive legislation over such districts as may become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be for the erection of forts and other needful buildings.
And to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
Having granted these powers to the federal government, the Constitution next imposes limitations to protect certain fundamental rights of the people.
The privilege of the right of habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless, when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public's safety may require it.
No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.
No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid unless in proportion to the census.
No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state.
No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another.
Nor shall vessels bound to or from one state be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.
No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law.
And a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.
No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States.
And no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Congress, Accept any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatsoever from any king, prince, or foreign state.
The last section imposes limitations on the powers of the state.
No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation, coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything but gold and silver coin a tender and payment of debts, Pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.
No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws.
No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, Enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
Article 2 provides for the executive branch of the government.
The executive power shall be vested in the President of the United States of America.
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He shall hold his office during the term of four years, together with the vice president, chosen for the same term.
Each state shall appoint a number of electors, equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress.
The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors and the day on which they shall give their votes, which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
No person except a natural-born citizen shall be eligible to the office of President.
Neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of 35 years, and been 14 years a resident within the United States.
In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President.
And the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or inability both of the President and Vice President.
The President shall at stated times receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected.
And he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States or any of them.
Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation.
I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States
and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
♪♪ The President shall be Commander-in-Chief of the Army and
Navy of the United States and of the militia of the several states when called into
the actual service of the United States.
He may require the opinion in writing of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective officers.
And he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.
He shall have power by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur.
And he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law.
But the Congress may by law vest the appointments of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
The President shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.
We shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union.
and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.
He may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses, or either of them.
He shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers.
He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States.
The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for and
conviction of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Article 3 provides for the judicial branch of the government.
The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish.
The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall at stated times receive for their services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority.
To all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, to controversies to which the United States shall be a party, to controversies between two or more states, between a state and citizens of another state, between citizens of different states, between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state or the citizens thereof and foreign states Citizens are subjects.
In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be a part, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction.
In all the other cases before mention, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.
The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury.
And such trials shall be held in the state where the said crime shall have been committed.
But when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act.
Or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason.
We're going to take a short break, folks.
Don't touch your dial and don't go away.
Part 2 coming up after this short pause.
to the living Constitution.
Following the provisions for the three branches of the federal government,
the Constitution next establishes the mutual obligations and responsibilities of the state to each other,
and the relationship that exists between the state and the federal government,
guaranteeing certain rights to the citizens of each state.
the world.
Article 4.
Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.
And the Congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.
A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crimes, who shall flee from justice and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union, but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state.
Nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislature of the states concerned, as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States.
The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a Republican form of government.
and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the executives, when
the legislature cannot be convened, against domestic violence.
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Article Five.
The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which in either case shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress.
provided that no state without its consent shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the South.
Article Six This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which
shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, all that shall be made under the
authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land.
And the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
The senators and representatives of all nations and the members of the several state legislatures
and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states,
shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution.
But no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the
United States.
It was a truly inspired design of government that the Convention of 1787 created,
And yet, as many of the delegates were aware, it had one basic weakness.
The Constitution was not explicit enough about the rights of individuals.
Time and again in the state conventions to which the Constitution was submitted for approval, the need for additional safeguards was urged.
In the case of several states, ratification of the Constitution resulted only after assurances were given that these safeguards would be provided by early amendments.
This was the first order of business of the first session of the first Congress of the United States.
In September of 1789, the Congress submitted to the states a group of proposed amendments which would protect and preserve certain fundamental rights
of the people against encroachment by the newly created federal
government.
These proposed additions to the Constitution were known as the Bill of Rights,
a name which has lasted through the ages and become a living symbol of democratic,
free government throughout the world.
As ratified by the state, these are the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
Amendment one. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press,
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for redress of grievances.
Amen.
A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Amendment 3.
Those soldiers shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the constraint of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment 4.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated.
And no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation And particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seen.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces Or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war and public danger.
Nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.
Nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.
Nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process or law.
Nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.
Which districts shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation.
To be confronted with the witnesses against him, to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Amendment 7.
In suits of common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States than according to the rules of common law.
Amendment 8.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment 9.
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
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.
Seven years after the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution,
another amendment was ratified.
This limited the powers of the federal courts in dealing with matters primarily of concern to the states.
Amendment 11.
The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state.
All my citizens are subject of any foreign state.
In 1804, the procedure for election of a president and vice president was clarified by amendment.
Amendment 12.
The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for president and vice president, one of whom at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with himself.
And they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as president, And of all persons voted for as Vice President, and of the number of votes for each.
Which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate.
The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and the House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.
The person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President.
The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President shall be the Vice President.
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
Then, for three score years and one, the Constitution proved reasonably adequate to the needs of the expanding nation.
This was a period of great national growth, marked by the admission of 19 new states to the Union, and more than a sixfold increase in the nation's population, from 5 to 32 million people.
It was also the period when the Union was rent and torn by the war between the states.
In the aftermath of that war came the three Reconstruction Amendments.
The first of these is Amendment 13, Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Amendment 14.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States And subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
For the Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article.
Amendment 50.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
43 years passed, until in 1913 the power of the federal government to tax incomes was
assured by Amendment 60.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived without apportionment among the several states and without regard to any census or enumeration.
The same year a significant and fundamental change was made in the method of selecting senators They had previously been chosen by the state legislatures.
Amendment 17 provides for their direct election by the people.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years.
And each senator shall have one vote.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any state in the Senate, The executive authority of such states shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies, provided that the legislature of any state may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election, as the legislature may direct.
The problems and pressures of World War I changed In the United States, two controversial amendments to the Constitution were proposed, fervently argued, and ultimately ratified.
Amendment 18, which prohibited the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, was subsequently repealed.
Amendment 19.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
The Congress shall have power by appropriate legislation to enforce the provisions of this article.
In 1933, the need for two more amendments was recognized.
They were enacted by the people.
Amendment 20 modernizes certain of the Constitution's original provisions to bring them in line with the realities and requirements of the 20th century.
And thus provide for a more efficient functioning of the federal government.
The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January.
And the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3rd day of January.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year.
And such meetings shall begin at noon on the 3rd day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
If at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President-elect shall have died, the Vice-President-elect shall become President.
If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President-elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice-President-elect shall act as President until the President shall have qualified.
And the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President-elect nor a Vice-President-elect shall have qualified.
Declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be elected.
And such person shall act accordingly until a President or a Vice President shall have qualified.
Then, for the first and only time in history, an amendment to the Constitution was nullified by subsequent amendments.
The 18th Amendment and the so-called Ballstead Act, which had established national prohibition, were repealed by Amendment 21, But at the same time, the people extended to the states complete authority to restrict at their option the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Amendment 21.
The transportation or importation into any state, territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors in violation of the laws thereof is hereby prohibited.
In 1951, following Franklin Roosevelt's precedent-shattering four-time election as President, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was passed.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.
And no person who has held the office of President or acted as President for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
On April 3, 1961, the 23rd and, as of now, the last amendment to the Constitution went into effect, which, for the first time, authorized residents of the District of Columbia to participate in the election of the President and the Vice President of the United States.
The District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct A number of electors of president and vice president equal to the whole number of senators and representatives in Congress, to which the district would be entitled if it were a state, but in no event more than the least populous state.
They shall be in addition to those appointed by the states, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of president and vice president, to be electors appointed by a state.
and they shall meet in the district and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
The Living Constitution of the United States.
Supreme law of our land.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for
which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
God.
A nation, or world, or people who will not use their intelligence are no better than
animals who do not have intelligence.
Such people are beasts of burden and steaks on the table by choice and consent.
That's from the first chapter of my book, Behold a Pale Horse.
The chapter is entitled, Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars.
Behold a Pale Horse is 500 pages, folks, of the most well-documented suppressed information that has ever been printed in one book in the history of the world, and I've been told that by experts.
It has an extensive appendix, and it's the only book in the world, to my knowledge, that's 100% guaranteed.
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The only stipulation that I have is that you return it in the same shape that you received it in, brand new.
Brand new, folks.
If you send it back to us used, we will not refund your money.
It's as simple as that.
No free rides in this world.
And I'm a real American.
I don't believe in socialism, folks.
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Until Monday, folks, good night, and God bless each and every one of you.
Thank you.
On every road, on every road.
America!
And the dream goes on!
America!
America!
America, America, and the dream goes on.
There's a song in the dust of a country road, on the wind it comes to call.
And the streets and the farms and the factory towns and the gravy banks, there's even no song at all.
And the words are the words of our fathers heard as they whistle down the hill.
And the name of the song is the name of the dream that's music to our ears.
America!
America, America, and the dream goes on.
America, America, and the dream goes on.
The words that we read on the courthouse walls are the words that make us free.
And the more we remember the way we danced, the closer we get to the best we can be.
Every time we forgot his words, all the flowers and the stars, Yet we gaze through the shields in a sky full of hope
And the flag is filled with stars America, America
And the dreaming old Remember the voice of Jefferson
And the sound of common faith Did you sing it, daddy, sir?
How come America Didn't welcome the wind and music
Here from far enough away?
America, America Long in the depths of a country road
And a bloody country car When it rings in the farm and the factory town, and you think there'd be no song at all.
And the words are the words that our fathers heard as they whistled down the hill.
And the name of the song is the name of the reason it's usually to our ear.
America!
send them in secret, and then all of America
and the nations go for war.
If the fronts are just like Ben-Edi and the!」
Martin Luther King.
and the waves they sang this song about America.
If the clouds and the wind is all is fair
and the gaps they've got to see America!
America!
Our voices are changing a song the same as it's from sea to sea.
And as long as the music is strong and clear, I know that tomorrow will always be free.
America!
America!
The freedom of all!
America!
America!
The freedom of all!
America!
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97%, just 3%, and the rest goes down the drain.
I'll never know which one I am, but I'll bet you my last dime.
99%, thank the creepers, and 100% of the time.
64% of all the world's statistics are made up right there on the spot.
82.4% of people believe them, whether they're accurate statistics or not.
I don't know what you believe, but I do know there's no doubt.
I need another double shot of something 90 proof.
I got too much to think about.
Too much to think about.
Too much to figure out.
Stuck between hope and doubt.
It's too much to think about.
They say 92% of everything you learn in school is just bullshit you'll never need.
84% of everything you got you bought to satisfy your greed.
Because 90% of the world's population links possessions to success.
Even though 80% of the wealthy is 1% of the population drinks to an alarming extent
More money, more stress Too much to think about, too much to figure out
Stuck between hope and doubt, it's too much to think about, figure out
84% of all statisticians truly hate their jobs They say the average bank robber lives within, say, about 20 miles of the bank that he robs.
There's a little bank not far from here I've been watching now a while.
Lately all I can think about is how bad I want to go out in style.
And it's too much to think about.
It's too much to figure out.
Stuck between hope and doubt.
It's too much to think about.
That's right.
It's too much to think about.
Amen.
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