Article 1: 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.While this points to the idiocy of the Democrat base (remember, these are the same people yearning for non-citizens to have constitutional rights while attempting to apply the Geneva Conventions to non-state actors), it reflects more on their dream of a socialist utopia. In a world of true homogeneous interaction, diamonds wouldn't be a girl's best friend, a slap would equal a slap, and a man would have as much say in a child's birth as the woman in her "right to choose."
I am a registered Republican and here's why: the radical right is naïve, but the radical left is dangerous (also, I wanted to vote in a primary).
I took five years to graduate college (plus 3 credits for a requirement) because I had a Renaissance education. I took 6 credits of economics, 6 of art history, 3 in chemistry, 3 in psychology, 3 in human evolution, 3 in archaeology, 3 in agricultural perspectives, 3 in theater appreciation, 3 in earth's ecological systems, 3 for food it's health effects, and 1.5 credit hours in exercise science and sports fitness (this outside my major and minor). I've drank from all the proverbial spouts. And this much I know is true:
- More government means less freedom for citizens (this is why President Bush's ownership society resonates with me).
- The market is a far better instrument for innovation than government bureaucracy. A business succeeds by being efficient, offering better services and prices than its opponents, and creating black lines in their budget process. A government program thrives by spending it's entire funding and claiming it could do more if only it had more (tax-payer dollars, that is).
- Helping and caring about others is the most decent thing humans can do. When I hear someone like Michael Savage (a radio-based bawler), he makes my blood boil (meaning I yell at the radio almost as much as network news). The idea that America should ignore the rest of the world belongs in 19th century. Foreign aid, especially in the poorest of nations where dollars go the farthest, is not only strategically beneficial, it is virtuous.
- And for the militant-secularists, I quote Thomas Jefferson while reiterating that liberty is a gift from God and not the government. "Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?" Or for the yet unconvinced intellectual, how about this from the West's past: "When (they) came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the... press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect," Albert Einstein.
- Community-based philanthropy works better than government programs. On a multitude of levels, faith-based, fraternal, and even the oft dissed "do-gooders" do a world of good. These non-profit groups are widely supported by volunteers and usually work for 'the greater good.' The benefits from independent organizations (including expediting amerciable immigrants) are spread over wide-sectors of society and (with proper accounting) should be supported. One needs only to look to our enemies and their subversion of madrases to see the potency of these groups.
- On crime and immigration: There is a difference between justice and vengeance. A human looking to improve their life (and the lives of their families) should not have to jump through needless hoops. For the 'anti-immigration reform' Republicans, like Tom Tancredo, legal immigrants are suckers. They wait ten years instead of paying a few hundred dollars to a smuggler. Do you know what putting the 'Minute Men' and National Guard on the border does? It drives up the price coyotes collect. American immigration policy MUST be reformed.
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Your statements about the Equal Rights Amendment demonstrate that your "incisive thinking" /education needs an injection of history.
Here's something to ponder:
Those radical, leftist suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were Republicans.
Alica Paul, the suffragist (yeah they were all called radicals) who is credited with gaining women the right to vote AND who wrote the Equal Rights Amendment was a Republican. The man who cast the single ballot which ratified the 19th Amendment was a Republican. The Republican party was the first party to put the ERA in it's platform in 1940. The ERA passed while Nixon was in the White House and both both Pat Nixon and Betty Ford were champions of the ERA. As a Senator Gerald Ford is credited with getting the ERA out of committee and on to the Senate floor where it was passed in 1972. Duh
The 14th amendment gives no rights to women, if it had then they would have been able to vote as soon ad the 15th amendment was passed. That's why the 15th Amendment says male citizens because the men writing it wanted to make sure that women were excluded from any rights these two amendments might confer. Young man, you need a history lesson.
Perhaps you wouldn't be so bugged about things if you would do a little research before you start your "incisive thinking".
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