FW: Blackfoot Constitution

["Craven, Jim" <JCraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Charles wrote--so cogently and eloquently:

CB: I'd pick and choose among the Bill of Rights. Among my favorite Amendments are 13 ( Lucky 13 !), 14, 15, 19, and the Amendment Provision itself. Lawyers and judges have interpreted the Constitution; the thing is to change it !

As you say, Jim, a lot of de jure, of ideals. But this is a bourgeois idealist constitution with the _First_ Amendment being freedom of Conscience -speech, religion, press.

We materialists would make the number one Amendment - in fact, lets put it in the original text - as a right to a living, to exist materially, bodily and economically, to thrive. You have to able to eat in order to speak. This provision is a premise for making the right to speak de facto.

But what is it to just exist ? We must be able to thrive. We need an ERA for women's equality, if we are going to get real about life and the facts of it.

And lets take the War Power away from Congress, because they have , in violation of the Constitution, abdicated it to the Executive. I'm for an Amendment that requires a vote of We, the People, before war can be declared.

Well, all this is still idealist, constiutionalist talk. We've got to critique all, new Gotha Programmes more.

Meanwhile, it seems as though Michael Moore is doing more good than harm, but criticism-self-criticism is one of our modes.

 

 

 

Response: As usual Charles, so eloquently put and to the point.

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Charles wrote--so cogently and eloquently:

CB: I'd pick and choose among the Bill of Rights. Among my favorite Amendments are 13 ( Lucky 13 !), 14, 15, 19, and the Amendment Provision itself. Lawyers and judges have interpreted the Constitution; the thing is to change it !

As you say, Jim, a lot of de jure, of ideals. But this is a bourgeois idealist constitution with the _First_ Amendment being freedom of Conscience -speech, religion, press.

We materialists would make the number one Amendment - in fact, lets put it in the original text - as a right to a living, to exist materially, bodily and economically, to thrive. You have to able to eat in order to speak. This provision is a premise for making the right to speak de facto.

But what is it to just exist ? We must be able to thrive. We need an ERA for women's equality, if we are going to get real about life and the facts of it.

And lets take the War Power away from Congress, because they have , in violation of the Constitution, abdicated it to the Executive. I'm for an Amendment that requires a vote of We, the People, before war can be declared.

Well, all this is still idealist, constiutionalist talk. We've got to critique all, new Gotha Programmes more.

Meanwhile, it seems as though Michael Moore is doing more good than harm, but criticism-self-criticism is one of our modes.

 

 

 

Response: As usual Charles, so eloquently put and to the point.

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Charles wrote--so cogently and eloquently:

CB: I'd pick and choose among the Bill of Rights. Among my favorite Amendments are 13 ( Lucky 13 !), 14, 15, 19, and the Amendment Provision itself. Lawyers and judges have interpreted the Constitution; the thing is to change it !

As you say, Jim, a lot of de jure, of ideals. But this is a bourgeois idealist constitution with the _First_ Amendment being freedom of Conscience -speech, religion, press.

We materialists would make the number one Amendment - in fact, lets put it in the original text - as a right to a living, to exist materially, bodily and economically, to thrive. You have to able to eat in order to speak. This provision is a premise for making the right to speak de facto.

But what is it to just exist ? We must be able to thrive. We need an ERA for women's equality, if we are going to get real about life and the facts of it.

And lets take the War Power away from Congress, because they have , in violation of the Constitution, abdicated it to the Executive. I'm for an Amendment that requires a vote of We, the People, before war can be declared.

Well, all this is still idealist, constiutionalist talk. We've got to critique all, new Gotha Programmes more.

Meanwhile, it seems as though Michael Moore is doing more good than harm, but criticism-self-criticism is one of our modes.

 

Response: As usual Charles, so eloquently put and to the point.   Attached is a paper on the Draft Constitution of the Blackfoot Nation presently being ratified on the3 grass-roots level through Blackfoot Country. This Constitution speaks to the issues Charles raises.

Jim C  

 

 

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