Where did you learn that? In Afghanistan or on the Huffington Post?
Yes, it does mean that. This is not in the Constitution it is in the Geneva Convention. The UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION IS FOR US CITIZENS NOT BELLIGERENT COMBATANTS OF A FOREIGN COUNTRY.
Even during our revolution were POW's held until paroled.
I have been debating the term limits idea in my head and though I Constitutionally disagree with term limits, because the term limit IS the voters that vote them in or out of office, at this moment in time I have to agree with them because I have lost confidence and faith in the voters. We are voting party lines and though I am guilty of the same, there wasn't much choice in this election.
We the people of the United States need to "Unite" and come up with a party based on the Constitution and our values. The Democrats have gone to modern liberalism and socialism and the Republicans aren't too far behind them, they are NOT conservatives anymore.
People are led to believe that Communism and Fascism are on opposite sides of the political spectrum, but I would say they are down the same road and we are well on our way towards one of them.
There are two canons which will guide us safely in most of the cases [of constitutional questions]. 1. The capital and leading object of the Constitution was, to leave with the states all authorities which respected their own citizens only, and to transfer to the United States those which respected citizens of foreign or other states: TO MAKE US SEVERAL AS TO OURSELVES, BUT ONE AS TO ALL OTHERS... 2. On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one which it was passed. - TJ, 12 June 1823
August 1774, A summary view of British Rights in America.
Sorry I didn't know the quote police were in this forum.
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. - TJ
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery. - TJ
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate; to surmount every difficulty with resolution and contrivance. When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it. Meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil, while fretting and fuming only serves to increase our own torment. Fortitude teaches us to meet and surmount difficulties; not to fly from them, like cowards; and to fly, too, in vain, for they will meet and arrest us at every turn of our road. Go on therefore with courage and you will find it grows easier and easier. - TJ
All elected officials work for one dollar a year until there is no deficit or be taxed to the same standards of AIG!
How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the whole earth, were it not for MISGOVERNMENT, and a diversion of all his energies from their proper object - the happiness of man, - to the selfish interests of kings, nobles, and priests [read: politicians]. If we can PREVENT THE GOVERNMENT FR4OM WASTING THE LABORS OF THE PEOPLE, UNDER THE PRETENSE OF TAKING CARE OF THEM, they MUST BECOME HAPPY. We who have gone before have performed an honest duty, by putting in power of our successors a state of happiness which no nation ever before had within their choice. - TJ
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