Do We Have a Constitution Anymore? | Panel
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Panel: “Do We Have a Constitution Anymore?”
Chairman:
Michael Anton
Hillsdale College
Panelists:
Akhil Reed Amar
Yale Law School
Thomas G. West
Hillsdale College
John Yoo
UC Berkeley School of Law
This panel was held on September 14, 2023, during a Hillsdale College Constitution Day Celebration.
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We only have a Constitution if the citizens rise to whatever level is necessary to enforce the Constitution.
RIGHT NOW❤🎬💯
No, if we didn't have the Constitution, we'd have no possible government at all; and since any of us can easily reference it, we retain it forever.
This is exactly true. People have allowed big government to get away with too much, and now they threaten the Constitution every day, trying to convince people that it is out of date, or not worth knowing. We have to enforce our Constitution in order to keep it.
Freedom is only worth what you're willing to give to secure it.
You mean the same constitution that has no enforcement mechanism? I’ll pass.
You do not have a Constitution if our legal system refuses to comply with its principles!
If our legal system refuses to comply with Constitutional principles and respect peoples’ Rights, that means they have violated their oath to uphold the Constitution, I assume that makes them liable for removal at least it would have been considered treason, that is why we have people who uphold and defend the Constitution from adversaries both Foreign and Domestic; I personally believe those that fail to uphold their Oath and disregard the Constitution should be liable for removal to keep a fair and just system so anarchy never occurs as a result of bad policy.
Congress is for sale. On the take. BOTH SIDES. What could go wrong ?
This means that the United States is now being run by tyrants.
Who are these tyrants and how did they take over the United States?
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Furthermore, since Rule of Law no longer applies to us, why are we not doing something about the loss of our freedom?
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Like republican congress protecting insurrectionist and a conservative SCOTUS justice taking bribes for years.
@@scottcrawford7674 Are you and the learned professors of Hillsdale aware that trump called for a second insurrection in Dec 2022 and that the Constitution be abolished and he be MADE president.
Or that it's only the fundie republican party support the wannabe dictator and denying Americans their Constitutional and Human Rights?
Or that Hillsdale's DVD on "wokidm" shows a clear fascist bias. Not to mention it's not very learned to say wokism, it's not a word.
But hey if you like fascism and genocidal Nazi ideology just stick with Hillsdale and trump.
''Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians, bureaucrats, financiers, bankers, and kindred; creating solutions to problems they created in the first place." - Walter E. Williams
So the classic “they lash out in pain as they strike you”
Don't forget college indoctrination.
@@First_name_youtube_doesnt_likethe classic create a problem where the solution was their goal to begin with. Classic Hegel
@@jman3241lol sorry they aren’t pushing white supremacy on schools anymore 🤦♂️
Nope. It's our inaction that's the problem. We allow this.
When the constitution isn’t being enforced, the Declaration of Independence holds the remedy.
Outside of the white community no one cares about a constitution written by human traffickers
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
I’m afraid the battle lines are being drawn and we are getting closer and closer to a terrible situation that boils down to a brutal choice: “It’s either us or them.” I wish it was different. I hope I’m wrong but I’m afraid I’m not.
No your correct and this is Something you can't Run from Now its Too late.
We cannot let this happeb and allow these devils of Satan win. There is still hope to wake up the brainwashed Sheep and show them how badly they are being used. WE THE PEOPLE!
The people have become too corrupt for the Constitution. Something has to change because with the current population the system does not work.
It's not us or them. 50% of people are not Democrat or republican.
Best thing we can do is treat our neighbors as equals and not thems. It isn’t you and I who should fight one another but us together fighting to get our country back.
There was a constitution, but federal judges overrules and interprets it any way they want. So what is the point of it now? Sad days.
Actually that is a loose thought. The only way you can lose what your inheritance is, is by selling it. Entering into contracts must be done with the utmost care. You lose your standing when you sign against your liberties. Study the founding documents to retrain your thinking. You are in a battle for your liberty.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
@@sing2me
"You lose your standing when you sign against your liberties"
What's funny about that sentiment is that the US Supreme Court originally ruled that the states gave up their sovereignty when their representatives ratified the US Constitution to form the federal government. But after the state of Georgia lost a lawsuit against someone from South Carolina, Congress quickly got the 11th amendment passed and SCOTUS has, ever since, adopted this strange "read between the lines" interpretation that the US states still retain their sovereignty and can get a lawsuit dismissed by saying that they "don't consent" to be sued, even though this privilege doesn't exist anywhere in the constitution and SCOTUS had already ruled that this state privilege didn't exist.
SCOTUS has since continued to rule that a US state can, in both federal and state courts, merely say "I don't consent to be sued" in order to swat away lawsuits from practically anyone despite the language of the constitution saying otherwise under Article III, so it looks like you can freely enter into any contract you want without worry when you're a US state because there's no power that can compel them to be in compliance with the stipulations of the contract they signed and agreed to.
Allegedly Soros has bored in like a tick on a dog in the Biden's an Obama's they're not any better
@@UndertakerU2ber Speaking for ourselves, we're always in an "us" state...
I have since the 1980's been asking for the US Constitution to be restored.
It’s not about asking, it’s demanding and enforcing in the correct jurisdiction. It’s knowing who you are and a warehouse receipt or chattel paper are not it!
Serious attacks on our Liberty began just after the Civil War, 1870
It was the 80s where we lost the country.
And Clinton was the last straw!
My first vote was against Clinton, as was my second vote.
After that, I said 'screw it' and I refused to vote again.
Until Trump came down that escalator.
That is when I decided to vote, one more time!
I voted for Trump twice, and I will proudly vote for him one more time!
Yes, Reagan began the dismantling of that 'moldy old document.'
@@jacob.tudragensit was long before the 80s. I’d argue it would be with the passage of the 16th amendment, where the federal govt was given the power to directly tax the people thus allowing them to have the states by the balls.
The Schooomer statement makes him a mafioso gangster in a suit & a government mobster...
They have it by design now that there is no real consequences for their illegal behavior. Until we start making representatives pay for their abhorrent behavior there will be no change. Unfortunately the only way I see that happening is for citizens to rise up and make it a reality. Voting now seems to be helpless in fixing this situation at this time.
The majority of Republicans are Democrats in RINO clothing. It’s evidently clear to see in their dislike & hatred for Trump & his MAGA policies.
That is exactly what we are witnessing. He articulated it very well.
Yes, and it's been the biggest thorn in the side of authoritarians the entire time.
That is why the DEMs hate the Constitution so much. Because of the personal freedoms the rule of law based upon the Constitution protect.
That’s an ambiguous reply, but at this reading there are 11 people that agree with you. Interesting.
Yes. We do but the government stubbornly refuses to arrest itself.
I question the title to this program myself! Just too many agencies above the law!!!
That was the problem of the Greek and Roman Empires.The executive power (Emperor) became a government unto itself and subverted the Senate's authority and jurisdiction.
21st-century ❤🎬💯EXPOSED NON STOP
The founding fathers gave us the tool to fix this.
Unfortunately, they couldn't give us the backbone to use it when they did.
You can say that again. Nobody has spine in this country anymore. God forbid they might have to put down their phones or golf clubs
So I guess my question is, who is really responsible for upholding and enforcing the US constitution?
The people using The ol Gandhi method
Same guys wiping their ass with it.
Right now, it's not the people in government who are ruling, but this party, who for a very long time, have been the ones who don't believe it enough, they think it is a living thing that needs to be changed, ignored and just do not abide to their oath. What they do in use, is not original intent, they will use it pretending that is how the law is meant to be used (meaning manipulated and abused).
The citizens are charged with enforcing the Constitution. It was given to the citizens as the *only* means with which to restrain and contain the government.
EVERY ELECTED OFFICIAL ! FACT !!!
There are many people out there claiming they know the Constitution and Bill of Rights when they haven't read them since highschool if at all if you don't refresh yourself on them you need to, that's all I have to say ✌️❤️🇺🇲
I have a bound copy and have read it several times. I refer to it frequently. I just wish EVERYONE did this!
@@Unborn-Lives-Matter yes, I have a pocket booklet from Hillsdale for signing up for email and individual copies for hanging on my wall 👍
We are nearly exclusively doing the dictates of United Nations Agenda 21.
Laws are constantly being changed to ensure that Agenda 21 gets done.
How can this be ? Fascist sellouts within our own government in high offices
beginning with George H.W. Bush. Remember his numerous speeches
announcing the New World Order in the 1990's ...........
Now that it has been exposed that we are living in a Post-Constitutional Country,
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
What always happens when inalienable rights are stomped on?
@@jayk7530 I think that if the Demo☭rats do what they did Last election, there will really BE an "insurrection". Or more likely, a Coup.
NOTHING! The problem is we have a conservative party that is fat and lazy! I call them country clubbers because they like to sit at the country club bar and drink after their last round of duffing around the golf course! They are to proud to get off their ass and fight the crooked Democrats with the same fire being thrown at them! The result is our country has shifted in a major way down the Socialist, feel good, liberal trash chute! Our Government is now 95% Democrat, and the way back may not exist!!
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When the unlawfull sneak in the legal ❤💯🎬 WORLD WIDE GETS IN THE ARENA❤
You folks should see how the lapd handles officers who expose supervision or command staff misconduct. They do the same to those officers as they have done to the Orange Man. No procedural justice, they collude to ensure you get “six ways from Sunday” treatment and end up demoted, out of a job or worse criminally prosecuted.
The mafia went from the streets of New York and Las Vegas to the halls of DC. And whereas before we had a law enforcement that actually rooted out the mafia, there is no one to stop them at this point.
Trump has been treated wit kid gloves his whole life.
The first time they started taxing Social Security they were breaking Constitution law. Its called double taxation!
The second they created Social security the Constitution was dead.
Hillsdale…why do take down episodes?? Y’all removed all of Lafflers economic lessons. I really enjoyed watching those. Geeeez please put them back up.
When simple, clear statements that contain the words "shall not infringe..." are somehow unclear and subject to "interpretation", the words become meaningless.
Sir, you are spot on in your assessment of these corrupt actors.
Take corporate away from buying the government, then We may have a chance on saving the constitution as it was intended
Yes we do have a constitution! All we need is someone to use it as it was written!
Yah, think? They got us where they want us...
No! Nor do we have equal protection under the law.
Hey look, see, the audience was paying attention.
Good on you audience.
We need a movement and leadership working to bring all law enforcement and military on board with the aim of their oaths, the ultimate purpose of their roles. To the degree that they function primarily as agents of "continuity of gov't" (following bureaucrats' fiats, administrators' whims, arresting and restricting Constitutionalists, as we see too frequently today) instead of defenders of the Constitution and the rights of the People, we have a problem making a restorative change. I'd rather have the official support of people who took such oaths than to have to confront them as part of seeking the Constitutional best for the US. Can there be such a movement of leadership, or will such recourse fall to the People?
There isn’t a member of the Republican political hierarchy, who publicly supports Trump & his MAGA movement.
@@arnanon6473 There's a few, Matt Gaetz, MTG, Anna Paulina Luna, but not many and not enough or not powerful enough. It's up to we the people, but I'm afraid there aren't even many true Americans left.
@@arnanon6473 Because they know a con man when they see one.
Repeal the 17th!!!
Yes
I would go further.
Eliminate 70% of the government workers, ending CIA, FBI, DNI, CDC, EPA...
We need political parties out of the picture.
My answer is to have a survey, 30 days before primary where folks make suggestions of whom should run, the top 10 candidates would debate for 6 weeks before 1st election. If there is no clear majority, then there would be a second election for run off.
We need another branch of government which would separate Attorney General into it's own branch. More checks and balances are needed.
I would have a 5th branch, similar to what PhD Larry Sabado had suggested. I would call this the Public's Ombudsman.
Only the House of Representatives would be political.
Like we are thinking, the Senate is to preserve the various State interests.
I would have another constitutional convention asap...before country dissolves...
Why.... do you want to return to appointing senators rather than electing them, and bring back the attendant corruption it eliminated?
@@fredflintstone5240Because he’s probably a Christian nationalist aka a fascist that wants to force everyone to live by his rules.
I am tired of my Senator being bought and paid for by California tech billionaires and NYC fudge packers. The BIGGEST reason is to divide power. The corruption will always be there. I say better to divide the power as many times as you can. @@fredflintstone5240
A word to those who will listen! Thank you HC! Through all the difficult times we live in now will one day pass. It cannot come to fast. I find myself no longer in any shape form or fashion, a republican. Never again will I go by that misnomer. I look forward to the day when a new party will arise to take the republican parties place. My prayer now is God have mercy on us for we have a longtime sinned against you. Even with your grace and mercy we have dropped the reigns of the horse and dug in the spurs . Let the horse run where it will. I ask for your continued mercy and bring change to our beleaguered land. Amen!
Amen!!
Amen! My political party is Patriot. 🙂
Spooner said it best in 1867- "But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist."
Wonderful presentation.
Complains about the constitution and civil liberties being eroded, yet doesn’t mention the George w bush patriot act.
Former Sec of Agriculture under Pres. Eisenhower, Ezra Taft Benson explained it perfectly in 1965 in the Utube talk "America On Path To Destruction". The reason how it will happen and the solutions to it.
Yes we have a constitution. The question is to whether it is adhered to in the legislation and administration of law.
An extra comment to help boost they UA-cam algorithm!
We need one!
Excellent, thank you!
There are external forces trying to destroy it along with us.
When the unlawfull sneak in the legal_ ❤they give the CIVIL A HARD TIME, RIGHT NOW❤💯🎬EXPOSED
The constitution exists as a guideline for the people to limit government, the government does not limit itself.
If the people think that electing others is all they have to do, to keep government in check, they are why this is happening.
End times = things stop working the way they should. I don't understand how so many people can miss this.
Supportive comment
Couldn't agree more !
Millions need to see..hear...and understand.
Thank you Patriot.
Out of everyone who swore and took Oath to defend and uphold our Constitution, we better still be Constitutional!!!! Lots of Oath takers will have to shameful explain to their grandkids why they let them down if not. I don’t know of any citizen which have agreed to replace our Constitutional Republic!!!
Our republic never left it was masked with the word magic of the legalese parse syntax grammar of the bar association who allowed the democratic form of government to be used in fake courts.
The people elected… charismatic idiots… everyone is guilty.
They’re traitors.
If you’re a cop or government official to swore an oath to uphold the constitution and you’re not arresting or whistle blowing on every violation you encounter you’ve violated your oath and are a traitor
Spot on.
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Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
The sheeple aren't going to do anything and the regime knows it.
Correct on all accounts sir. Excellent speech.
Time to do what needs to be done 🇺🇸🙏✝️
thanks.
Truth be told!
We do and it’s up to us to uphold it by exercising it.
Welcome to the greatest country on earth. You realize things I knew in 1980 as a teenager. Good job college boy 👍
we’re turning commie
Just about!
Turning?...
I'm not. Get the Frog out of your pocket.
Happened during the 16th Presidency with what is called the Organic Act of 1871, however there was nothing organic about it other than the start of a paper war and the commercialization of a free land.
There are a ton of closet commies in our country.
The answer is simple. Go down the Bill of Rights and look up every permit required to exercise those rights.
Yes we do. It's in a museum somewhere for people to look at like other historical paintings, but it's not for use anymore.
There is no one to buck up against these constitutional criminals.
We the People have exactly what we want.
Yes it has really been stomped on
I would say we don't , because these tyrants sure don't follow it.
Yes
Thank you sir but how do we fix this i want to help
Yes, it's there......both written, and in the hearts of all people. It is being ignored, and usurped.
Yes, we still have a Constitution!
But not one that works as it was intended.
@@Roylamx Still have it and IT is working as intended. WE...we the people are not working as intended. The Constitution is just a piece of paper and means nothing unless we the people stand by it and make sure our "leaders" do the same. WE the PEOPLE are the part of the Constitution that is not working as it should. It is why we're affirmed in the Bill of Rights in the rights within. In a sense, we are the fourth branch of government.
If you feel you don't have one you don't. However if you embrace it and live it then you obviously do. Consequences will vary
So we have as much Constitution as we are willing to die defending.
Seems clear to me.
This is an easy question answer.
Crowd wide awake good sign for a speaker. 10:58
Our Constitutional protections we're underneath,
Denied the Rights we've been bequeathed,
Arbitrary rule,
A wonderful tool,
And it'll continue till we give our Constitution teeth.
We should though I have lived through an injured Constition since I was 8.
Federal reserve is also a foreign principal
Can you please explain this to the illinois , California, New Mexico , new york governor’s that are ignoring our rights and have altered them too.
Thank you.
"...then the end of the Roman republic was at hand, and nothing could save it. The laws were the same as they had been, but the people behind the laws had changed, and so the laws counted for nothing." Theodore Roosevelt, 1911
Substitute American for Roman and you have our situation.
YES. END OF DISCUSSION.
I agree with Alan. And it's that time@
"What's the difference between US sheeple and China sheeple ??"
Nothing because sheeple are sheeple no matter where they are from?
Well, are laws actually laws if they are never enforced, or if they are only enforced selectively?
It’s still the law of the land!
We live in a post law, post constitution society.
That much is clear.
My answer is George Santos.
History class of things once believed.
Luke 4 : 6 never changed.
Lawlessness is being allowed.
When you have a large and powerful block who hold the view of a "living Constitution" then, no, you don't have a solid foundation. You have preferences blowing in the wind.
NO! And for some time too! YEAH!
It's only ever been a piece of paper hidden away somewhere with some words on it. You only have whatever rights they choose to let you have on any given day. What good is it when they're at your door and armed? What good is it when crooked judges ignore it or interpret it however they want? They tell us we have these "rights" to keep us complacent.
You sound like a victim, have you have already rolled over ?
It was never just words on some paper..it is the ideals of life liberty and happiness but it's our spirit. It is what makes us different from the rest of the world .
Someone needs to remind you that government did not give you anything. These freedoms we honor are God given and the constitution was written to remind them it's ITS WE RHE THE PEOPLE" the only power they have is what we give them.
"In God we trust the guns are just back up."
@caddylover10 You're free to feel that way, but reality says otherwise.
@@user-dl5qc6fb4umaybe your reality but not mine. if you feel this way what are you doing about it?
I think one of the biggest tragedies in the death throes of the constitution is the peoples inability, or unwillingness, to enforce article 6. In all facets of government, politicians, judges, police military, etc., all taken oath to support and defend the constitution. Violating this oath is a violation of federal law as well as a violation of the constitution itself. Federal law mandates the penalties for violating the oath of office. Yet it is NEVER enforced. In all of these facets of government you have officials, elected or appointed that routinely take the oath and then immediately and relentlessly go about shamelessly violating it. They do everything they can to dismantle, undermine, or circumvent the constitution in every possible way. Article 6 specifically states That laws that do not comport with the constitution are invalid on their face. They should not need to be challenged in court, they should be unenforceable upon their inception. Yet, our penal code is teaming with laws that do not comport with the constitution, which have been so routinely enforced, that the people don't even realize anymore how invalid the laws are. To make matters worse, our Supreme Court routinely fails to take up cases where the people challenge the constitutionality of laws that very clearly violate the constitution. All facets of government the limitations placed on them by the constitution, and the routinely become comfortable with this state of being. The willingness of the people to blindly comply with "the authorities" should frighten us all, as the "authorities" are, in fact, our employees and representatives, not our rulers. WE THE PEOPLE - are the Authorities. But unfortunately the vast majority of society has lost side of that fact, and resigned to serfdom.
Do you know of anyone using Art 6 in court - and winning?
@@Roylamx of course not, because article 6 specifically mentions judges. And if they are also corrupt, who is to hold them to account? They are the ones that are supposed to hold up everyone else to account. Article 6 is supposed to hold them to account, but there is no enforcement mechanism.
Number one, get involved at your local level that is how it was supposed to be. Your local community county a s state. We have grown and forgotten that the federal government r was never meant to be the voice of the nation...send roe v wade back to the stars was a huge step in that direction ..tell every e you know to pay more attention To state electionsmore ; that's where the laws that affect our daily lives happen.
Most important be the change ...and do it right there where you are. Make your little corner of the world the corner every should follow. So it rhwre a s those around you will take notice
Facts the whole thing.
Please fix the text on the thumbnail.
We have the Constitution.
We do not have a government under it that will uphold it.
Thw people wont let you remove it.
We STILL have the US Constitution! It structure and authorizes the entirety of the Federal government. It is a CONTRACT, between the People (a proper noun) and the government structured by it. (What is ALLOWED and what is NOT ALLOWED)
This is true
We have a Constitution, our representatives treat it as if it was but wipe, not folded, but wadded up.
Laws don't mean much outside of the governmental entities that created them. Regulation, however has become the new way to circumvent laws and the Constitution.
What IS the US Constitution?
I've heard of it before.
IT IS UP TO US, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO INSIST THAT WE HAVE, WILL ABIDE BY, AND DEMAND THAT OUR GOVERNMENT ABIDE BY IT, ALSO, “IN ITS ORIGINAL INTENT”!!! NO MORE “MUSICAL CHAIRS” OR “HIDE AND SEEK” GAMES, IN THE AMERICAN CITIZENRY AND GOVERNMENT!!! WE INSIST!!!🇺🇸
Well, who would enforce it? Who would DARE?
Constitution was suspended on 09182001
"...we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge...would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and [Christian/theist] religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, Second US President