Staying true to our Constitution
Are we all numbed by the audacity of Cheney and Bush. The Constitution is our guideline, our law, it protects us all in a democracy. Use it or loose it. Impeachment is the tool to keep the branches of our government balanced. We will continually be balancing these powers, this is the nature of the process called America. Impeachment is called for when the Constitution is violated and the law is broken. We need to impeach now to correct the balance before the next president takes over this office which is now heavy with excessive powers.
America is a unique country in that it has a Spirit leading impetus. Other countries are founded in lore, wise folk lore, they have a folk. We are an idea. We come from the future rather than the past. With this future led impetus we lead the world in what can be. The idea our country was founded on of democracy, freedom, equality is a guide into the future but also the future pulling us into creation. We are continually in the process of creating out of the future, what can be. I support the impeachment of Cheney and Bush as their actions are in violation of the constitution and destructive to the idea or ideal that we are and represent as a country.
Mrs. Anna Marchant, Denver
“…the slow undoing of human rights…” Does anyone remember when a young president uttered those words one day in January, 1961? They were just words, right? But today they ring loudly prophetic.
Because that is what is happening to us with the Bush administration’s careless disregard of the Constitution and the unfortunate spinelessness of the congress to do anything about it. We, the people, are no less responsible. We have been silent and complacent and the Press, in general, has been embarrassingly impotent in their role as watch dogs.
Impeachment proceedings against President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should have been initiated long before now, but there is still time to hold them accountable, before they leave office, before they leave the Executive Branch with powers that if unchecked, will lead us down that slippery slope towards totalitarianism.
Remember, impeachment is our constitutional right and recognized by our founders as an imperative tool to keep the checks and balances in place.
I join John D. Cooper (Letters Aug 8) in encouraging us to watch “Bill Moyers Journal” Friday for a cogent discussion of the merits of impeachment in the democratic process.
Sue McGhee, Monument
Mark Hillman (8/8/07) raises an important question. Should the Constitution be amended; should transfer payments’ such as welfare, Social Security, farm subsidies be ended? Should, in his words, government interference with fundamental freedoms be banned? In other words, was theC onstitutional Convention of 1789 taken over by liberals, bound on undoing the principles of the
Declaration of 1776?
After all, the Preamble to the Constitution gives to government, along with the purpose of ‘securing the blessings of Liberty,’ the equal purpose of ‘promoting the common welfare.’ And, in less that twenty years, on March 18, 1818, Congress enacted pensions for Revolutionary War and War of 1812 veterans. Thanks to those precedents we now see far into the future, along with the transfer payments which Hillman lists, astronomical ones for veterans.
I agree: government promotion of the common ‘welfare’ must end. So what if, without it, my forefathers, veterans of Valley Forge and of Shiloh, would not have survived to the ages they did? At least Hillman’s agrarian economy with its life, liberty, property and defensive weapons might survive.
George B. York, Denver
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