Published Brownsville Herald 11/25/2007
The media these days are full of stories where this person or that says “I know my rights” or “I have the right of free speech. Just recently the Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to those rights related to the right to “bear arms” that many of us here in Texas take very seriously.
I would guess that few of us actually read the Constitution and think about its meaning and then take the time to consider what it all means when filtered through Common Sense and not the perversions of political correctness, partisan political or legal arguments.
The body of the United States Constitution is relatively short and sets out the only powers granted by “We the people” to the government and specifies what methods must be followed to use them. The first assumption was that “We the people” had all the powers and rights and were allowing our representatives and employees of the government to do certain things for us. That would seem to mean that any amendment to the Constitution in some way should provide a new power that was not previously granted. More »
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