What are the key points in the constitution?

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What are the key points in the constitution?

Answer 1

What Is America?--by Harry Browne

"The first is the concept that government is limited to a few specific, clearly defined functions. The Bill of Rights makes this clear. The 9th and 10th amendments specify that the federal government may not do anything that isn’t spelled out in the Constitution.

And to drive that home, the Bill of Rights specifically guarantees your freedom to speak, worship, write, assemble, protest, or protect yourself. There are no exceptions allowed — even when the politicians claim to have a "compelling interest" in limiting your liberty.

Before America, no country was ever governed by such a document. It put government in a small, confined compartment."

Answer 2

they are all key.

Answer 3

That depends on what your priorities are. I have been arguing with a guy who thinks that the draft is unconstitutional, the Federal Reserve is unconstitutional, and that it is unconstitutional for troops to be sent into a foreign conflict without a declaration of war by Congress. I understand that that fellow has his own passions, but I don't consider any of those things to be unconstitutional, I consider other things to be unconstitutional, and he is unlikely to agree with my views about where the problems of constitutional interpretation lie.

I think many people would say that the 14th Amendment has been the single most important provision ever enacted. If so, I agree, but not in terms of finding that the 14th has been wonderful. I think that the 14th needs to be re-written.

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