I am a retired veteren of the US Army. I swore to uphold this Constitution, protecrethe flag and the president. I don’t remember the exact wording, but I know the content.
I am not a fan of President Obama, but he is our president. The congress should also protect our rights and our people. I feel they may be forgeting who the work for and represent.
Warren

At last! A day to recognize that the USA is great for some reason other than brute strength and money.

hey! todays the day!

I just wish politicians would honor, respect and uphold our Constitution. Everyday we get further away from what our Founding Fathers created and left for us.

Listen to the audio book or read “John Adams”..or “1776″ both by David McCullough. Those two books did more for me than all the grade school years of american history to help appreciate and embrace our early history. Helped also to drive home why it is vital to protect our rights and country.It is amazing we made it to where we are.

“The signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787, by the Founding Fathers is one of the most important and influential events in American history, establishing the many rights and freedoms “We the People” enjoy today.”

–While I cannot argue with your statement, I would laugh at the precocity of the thought that it need be said. Would also add that it, the Constitution, had a little bit of influence worldwide, as well.

–Suggested reading: Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787.
An easy yet fascinating read of the trials, tribulations, and the influence religion had in getting the thing done. It puts you tight in the room.
–Something Obama and all of the legislators, Supreme Court judges, and journalists need to brush up on.

Today is the day every American should be proud of. You may not always agree, with our President, Congress and/or Supreme Court with the decisions they may make. But you do have a Constitutional right to voice your opinion in opposition, if the time and place is appropriate. Just because you have the right, A little respect, common sense, courtesy and manners will go a long way in supporting the greatest political system the world has ever seen.

Sometimes a single voice of deliberate silence, can be as powerful as many voices of perpetual chaos.

sorry..right in the room…

The U.S. Constitution is easily one of the most remarkable documents in all of history. It was written by geniuses. That’s not to say that it is perfect, or we wouldn’t have so many amendments. I can think of a couple more amendments I’d like to make.

For one thing I’d change how elections are run. I’d make sure that a much greater number of voices could be heard on the stage of ideas, by limiting campaign spending to the candidates. Let them spend only a set amount of money on an election and no more or they not only forfeit the election but the right to run again. And they would have to publish where the money came from. One donor or a thousand so long as we all know where it came from and who they might be beholden to.

I’d make it illegal for corporations to have the rights of people. Corporations are run by people and they need to be responsible for their actions. A corporation that dumps poison in the rivers can’t be sent to jail. Somebody made that choice, it was a person and not a legal fiction.

I’d make congress subject to (and not exempt from) all the laws they make and retroactively.

That would keep us out of trouble for a while.

I am retired from the US Army. We took an oarh to support and defend the Constitution of The United States of America, as did every elected official in washington. If you have not noticed they are not in compliance with it and have not been for years. The founding fathers never intended our government to be a place where they redistribute the wealth from those who have it to those who don’t. Come on people get real. I know the evil rich is the problem with what is wrong today, I mean really the poor could have created the largest and most powerful and richest nation in the history of mankind, isn’t that so. All members whom have joined the military and been elected to government office took an oath to protect us from or enemies both foriegn and domestic. So Please stand up and stop the movement to a socailized system. Look around the world it don’t work. That question was put to The now deceased EDward Kennedy and his response was the it was because he was not in charge of the movement to a socailized goverment.