Showing posts with label constitution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label constitution. Show all posts
Thursday, February 23, 2012
D.O.M.A.Unconstitutional, Again
The more Republicans tighten their Catholic grip, the more star systems will slip through their fingers..
Thursday, February 16, 2012
The New Syrian Constitution
It guarantees:
Read it yourself here: http://ht.ly/96fOn
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- Healthcare and social security for all citizens.
- Conscribes Military service.
- Right to fair trial and appeal.
- Prohibits torture (as prescribed "by law") like the US.
- The Assembly must generate a budget each year.
- Presidential candidates must be 40. Wonder why??
- Elections only run 90 days before the end of a presidential term.
- Candidates must have written support of at least 35 members of the Assembly
- Presidential terms run for 7 years, with one re-election (so 14 years and lets Assad serve till he's 61).
- They can have more than one Vice President. Why? Kin folk?
- If the President can't do the job, the Vice President takes over. Which one?
- President needs Assembly's approval to declare war.
- Ministers can't be part of a company (think Dick Cheyney and Halliburton).
- The Cabinet (Ministry) can include people serving in the Assembly. Nuts..
- Independent Judiciary. Wish we had that in the US.
- Supreme Court appointments run 4 years. Who extends that is not defined.
- How the Supreme Court is created/selected is not defined (puppets "by law").
- The Court can't deride referendum laws.
- Amending the Constitution requires four quarters (questionable translation) of the Assembly.
Read it yourself here: http://ht.ly/96fOn
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
How The FBI Decided To Go After Anonymous
Interesting. If you are a Libertarian who heavily protested what PayPal did last December, you are on the list of FBI suspects. Pretty shaky..from the"Constitutional" point of view?? I see a few law suits in the DOJ's future...
Monday, April 12, 2010
Is The US Christian??
Lets look at the actual Constitution;
The only mention of religion at all is Article 6; "No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States"
Sounds a little secular to me?
In the Bill of Rights, Article 1; "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 a redress of grievances."
How was the Bush "Faith Based Initiative" not challenged and over-turned??
So how is this a country founded on Judea-Christian beliefs?
The only mention of religion at all is Article 6; "No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States"
Sounds a little secular to me?
In the Bill of Rights, Article 1; "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 a redress of grievances."
How was the Bush "Faith Based Initiative" not challenged and over-turned??
So how is this a country founded on Judea-Christian beliefs?
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