Time to protect Constitution - The path back starts with American voters.

[kpete]

Sunday, November 5, 2006

Time to protect Constitution

WALTER WILLIAMS
GUEST COLUMNIST


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The path back starts with American voters. They must recognize the depth of the institutional breakdown and ensuing incompetent governance as well as direct threats these pose to them.

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.... the voters must accept their responsibility in the political system because the framers of the Constitution cast the people as the central actors. The long first sentence in the Constitution -- its entire Preamble made clear that it is the people's Constitution (the five capitalized words were in the original document): "WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

This Constitution and the government it established belong to all of us. The elected officials in Washington from the president on down are our representatives and expected to act in our best interests.

Thus, America's citizens bear the first responsibility to protect and uphold our Constitution. Go for it.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/291056_focus05.html

[fed-up]

1. My son just turned 18-despite being in the middle of moving we'll vote! n/t