Phil, honest to God, everytime I think you can't be any greater of a role model for the people of America, you always do!!! Thank you for everything my man! And never change a thing! Keep up the great work!!!!
This video shows exactly why I have so much respect for what you do Phil. Such a great argument that I can’t help but steal it for when I hear that “living document” crap.
I'm getting nosebleeds trying to explain Constitutional Law or real history to leftists, or my own nieces. Their school in Alexandria, MN was teaching them Sharia Law and not Constitutional Law in 2015. My then 1st grade niece was being taught MASTURBATION! My oldest niece is now an MP in the US Army. Phil, you and I are on the right side of history.
That's pretty awesome. I just ordered that book, thanks to this video. Much love, Phil. Been a fan since almost the beginning of All That Remains. Hope you guys have new material in the works. The world could sure use it. Much love from Tulsa, OK -R.I.P. Oli Herbert
Seeing oyu on Tim's Podcast totally got me back into listening ATR again. Love it that you're also such a clear mind (back then I didn't really get it from your lyrics because I wasn't at all into politics, only music you know...).
I would respectfully disagree. A living document means there exists the mechanisms/processes for the original document to be amended or updated. Granted the means of amending the Constitution are far more rigorous than adding an amendment to a typical contract, but the principle is still the same. The U.S. Constitution has 27 Amendments, meaning there have been 27 different alterations to the original document. The founding fathers put into place the ability for successor generations to alter the Constitution. Edmund Randolph, one of the original drafters of the Constitution, stated the goal was to “insert essential principles only, lest the operations of government should be clogged by rendering those provisions permanent and unalterable, which ought to be accommodated to times and events.” Women had no right to suffrage when the Constitution was written, but the 19th Amendment granted them the right to vote. Similarly, the Constitution as it was written states the runner up for president shall become the vice president in Article 2, but this clause was nullified by the 12th Amendment. In Contracts, we call these living documents.
My argument is not against amendments or the amendment process. It's about interpreting meaning that goes beyond what is expressly written in the document itself. So it seems to me your argument is semantic.
The bill of rights, though vital to this country's existence, wasn't even included in the original draft of the constitution. The amendment process, unfortunately was an appeasement to those who otherwise would refuse to support the constitution in the first place. It was never the intention of the founders to make something so complex in the first place. It was supposed to be a bare bones social contract akin to a free market utopia in essence. The articles of confederation were arguably much closer to the values of the founding fathers, in that they represent the initial thought process of the people, without all the confounding issues of international threats and a lack of enthusiasm by the people for what they were trying to undertake as a nation. In plain english: it's not complicated; people have these freedoms and noone can interpret that differently, but if we want all these ideas to stick, we need to be sure our enemies can't throw us in f**k me in the a** prison for thinking like this and threatening their ideals.
I believe the argument for whether or not the Constitution is a living document is just hair splitting when you consider the purpose of its creation to begin with. And the allowance for Amendments and the Amendment process was just chiefly a way to gain full bipartisan support for everything expressed in the original document. But as history proves, that allowance was really the only logical way to implement it in the first place. It protects us from a morally remiss or radical power, but simultaneously holding us as a Nation to a standard befitting of our historical upbringing. I believe Amendments are simply just a tool used as a way to react to events/moral shortcomings that oppose or threaten the integrity of society and government. But it is clear that the only part of it that should be considered living are the Amendments themselves, considering the Amendments are the changes that we are bound to abide by.
Bro I have no idea how else to message you. You mentioned on Timcast yesterday that your firearm insurance is $100 a year but everywhere I look is like $300. Who do you use?
Yeah sorry i'll take Thomas Jeffersons words: "The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water… (But) between society and society, or generation and generation there is no municipal obligation, no umpire but the law of nature. We seem not to have perceived that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independant nation to another… On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation… Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19. years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force and not of right."
Phil i fucking love you guys iv been listening to you guys since i was in middle school this darkened heart every morning on the bus i know it has nothing to do with this video but i love you and all that remains as a whole so much your vocals where the first i ever heard in this genera that appealed to me and although i love all kinds of music now from every generation and every kind (give or take) it was ATR and Disturbed that started it all for years those two bands was all i listed to metal speaks to me and makes me cry thank you (i would love to see you, Mark Morton, and Randy Blythe collab and I'm sure others would as well idk if you'll ever see this but it's something to ponder lol)
Oh, one thing I want to throw back at you: _"Can't we make them leave the hate behind?"_ Hit me so hard hearing that line from you recently... ;) much love
I literally used the amendment process as a reason that the constitution is not a living document in a class debate last week and half the class looked at me like I'm batshit insane.
Plus.....Does anyone now a days know what a book is 🤔🤔 Re- educate yourself's.... not on your phone.... your the Man Philip! 👊🖖🤘💓 Much Love ( Debbie Lynn)
I feel ya man its like why argue with anyone online its what they want and gets them on but some of the shit they say just pisses you off so much your just Flippin out in your head I see it everyday with my wife she has a decent following on Instagram and when someone argues with her about something she goes off
Philip Labonte, Civicspert.
“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.”
― Samuel Adams
Phil, honest to God, everytime I think you can't be any greater of a role model for the people of America, you always do!!! Thank you for everything my man! And never change a thing! Keep up the great work!!!!
This video shows exactly why I have so much respect for what you do Phil. Such a great argument that I can’t help but steal it for when I hear that “living document” crap.
I'm getting nosebleeds trying to explain Constitutional Law or real history to leftists, or my own nieces. Their school in Alexandria, MN was teaching them Sharia Law and not Constitutional Law in 2015. My then 1st grade niece was being taught MASTURBATION! My oldest niece is now an MP in the US Army.
Phil, you and I are on the right side of history.
You and Eric July are true Patriots, rock on Phil! 🇺🇸🤘
Great stuff man! It's awesome seeing you on Tim Pool too!
That's pretty awesome.
I just ordered that book, thanks to this video.
Much love, Phil. Been a fan since almost the beginning of All That Remains.
Hope you guys have new material in the works. The world could sure use it.
Much love from Tulsa, OK
-R.I.P. Oli Herbert
Why have the uploads stopped? Come back Phil! We miss you!
Seeing oyu on Tim's Podcast totally got me back into listening ATR again.
Love it that you're also such a clear mind (back then I didn't really get it from your lyrics because I wasn't at all into politics, only music you know...).
The Baskin Robbins of metal voices and civics knowledge
I might have seen that ATR DVD a few too many times
"We gave them a Republic.... Let's see how long they keep it"
I would respectfully disagree. A living document means there exists the mechanisms/processes for the original document to be amended or updated. Granted the means of amending the Constitution are far more rigorous than adding an amendment to a typical contract, but the principle is still the same. The U.S. Constitution has 27 Amendments, meaning there have been 27 different alterations to the original document. The founding fathers put into place the ability for successor generations to alter the Constitution. Edmund Randolph, one of the original drafters of the Constitution, stated the goal was to “insert essential principles only, lest the operations of government should be clogged by rendering those provisions permanent and unalterable, which ought to be accommodated to times and events.” Women had no right to suffrage when the Constitution was written, but the 19th Amendment granted them the right to vote. Similarly, the Constitution as it was written states the runner up for president shall become the vice president in Article 2, but this clause was nullified by the 12th Amendment. In Contracts, we call these living documents.
My argument is not against amendments or the amendment process. It's about interpreting meaning that goes beyond what is expressly written in the document itself. So it seems to me your argument is semantic.
The bill of rights, though vital to this country's existence, wasn't even included in the original draft of the constitution. The amendment process, unfortunately was an appeasement to those who otherwise would refuse to support the constitution in the first place. It was never the intention of the founders to make something so complex in the first place. It was supposed to be a bare bones social contract akin to a free market utopia in essence. The articles of confederation were arguably much closer to the values of the founding fathers, in that they represent the initial thought process of the people, without all the confounding issues of international threats and a lack of enthusiasm by the people for what they were trying to undertake as a nation. In plain english: it's not complicated; people have these freedoms and noone can interpret that differently, but if we want all these ideas to stick, we need to be sure our enemies can't throw us in f**k me in the a** prison for thinking like this and threatening their ideals.
I believe the argument for whether or not the Constitution is a living document is just hair splitting when you consider the purpose of its creation to begin with. And the allowance for Amendments and the Amendment process was just chiefly a way to gain full bipartisan support for everything expressed in the original document. But as history proves, that allowance was really the only logical way to implement it in the first place. It protects us from a morally remiss or radical power, but simultaneously holding us as a Nation to a standard befitting of our historical upbringing. I believe Amendments are simply just a tool used as a way to react to events/moral shortcomings that oppose or threaten the integrity of society and government. But it is clear that the only part of it that should be considered living are the Amendments themselves, considering the Amendments are the changes that we are bound to abide by.
are u sure u want to do this??????
FUCK YEAH! You are correct!
We need you back on youtube
I come here for Phil’s opinions and singing! Phil you got some serious brains man, keep sharing them
Bro I have no idea how else to message you. You mentioned on Timcast yesterday that your firearm insurance is $100 a year but everywhere I look is like $300. Who do you use?
Yeah sorry i'll take Thomas Jeffersons words:
"The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water… (But) between society and society, or generation and generation there is no municipal obligation, no umpire but the law of nature. We seem not to have perceived that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independant nation to another… On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation… Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19. years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force and not of right."
Miss you, Phil. Hope all is well. Need your brand of red pilling no b.s. testosterone back
If you can find the time, I'd love to talk with you about Ayn Rand and where you might think she got things wrong.
Hmmmm. Any more russia time with tim in the future?
Phil i fucking love you guys iv been listening to you guys since i was in middle school this darkened heart every morning on the bus i know it has nothing to do with this video but i love you and all that remains as a whole so much your vocals where the first i ever heard in this genera that appealed to me and although i love all kinds of music now from every generation and every kind (give or take) it was ATR and Disturbed that started it all for years those two bands was all i listed to metal speaks to me and makes me cry thank you (i would love to see you, Mark Morton, and Randy Blythe collab and I'm sure others would as well idk if you'll ever see this but it's something to ponder lol)
Oh, one thing I want to throw back at you:
_"Can't we make them leave the hate behind?"_
Hit me so hard hearing that line from you recently... ;)
much love
That's a nevermore song 😉
I literally used the amendment process as a reason that the constitution is not a living document in a class debate last week and half the class looked at me like I'm batshit insane.
Preach it king!
Hell yes.
Don’t read the comments. Good or bad. It’s better for you.
Plus.....Does anyone now a days know what a book is 🤔🤔 Re- educate yourself's.... not on your phone.... your the Man Philip! 👊🖖🤘💓 Much Love ( Debbie Lynn)
People online are looking for ways to agitate. They hate you cuz they ain’t you.
Might I add: especially recently
please do a video of six or the waiting one, u r awesome dude keep doing that, cheers from Mexico 🤟
I enjoyed this segment with you very much Phil. I was glad you presented this about you, but sucks very much the circumstances were on a better note.
Twitter is not a place to pick fights unfortunately, and can you send me a copy of that book? Maybe signed?
I feel ya man its like why argue with anyone online its what they want and gets them on but some of the shit they say just pisses you off so much your just Flippin out in your head I see it everyday with my wife she has a decent following on Instagram and when someone argues with her about something she goes off
Amen🙌🏻🙌🏻
Give the twitter people a pacifier
⚔️🌲⚔️ #preparing
Absolutely dead.
Lmfao
Hey Phil have you considered making a new perpetual doom full length?