The Constitution: Its Fate Depends on Civic Leaders

Dr. Rick Hardy, chairperson of the Western Illinois Political Science department and noted speaker, delivered the 2008 John Hallwas Liberal Arts Lecture, addressing the development of the US Constitution, it amendments, its position in history and the future.

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[JustynzoBeyondo]

I'm just going to ask some questions, I am not a racist and in no way support slavery.

Is the man who is saying that the South was a terribly developed government also aware that it took the union, who had been a nation for almost a hundred years, 5 years and hundreds of thousands of soldiers to defeat the Confederacy? is he also implying that if the Confederacy had a more refined government that This would make slavery okay? I mean The union was living off the taxes of south slave labor.

[cheechanchux]

Is fucking awesome!!!!!!!

Two part comment

[cheechanchux]

Whether or not you agree with any of the speaker that fact that our government is coming into light or at least undergoing revision

[ngonea]

@14ATruther - yep, the clue is he said "our Democracy" he's talking the District of Columbia, not the Republic

[14ATruther]

There are two Constitutions... One Sovereign and one usurped. Sovereign state Citizenship grants all the Bill of Rights and "US federal citizenship" grants you only those rights provided to you by congress as a 14th Amendment citizen is a subject class citizen and ALIEN to the Bill of Rights... You decide, but these lawyers are only discussing "US citizenship", not Sovereign state Citizenship... The Citizenship of our founders who wrote the Constitution... WAKE UP People!

[ARBuilder1776]

@fearfullpeople Because they expected us to get off our asses and do it ourselves. We have been well warned by them if you read their writings.

[mindspring57]

The Constitution died in 1937. It was a casualty of the Great Depression and of Justices of the Supreme Court appointed for their political connections and not for their legal acumen. For example, Hugo Black, a Senator from Alabama and former member of the KKK, and then, in 1953, Earl Warren, a Republican politician from California, who made a deal with Eisenhower at the 1952 Republican convention.

[idontgetno]

@GLEACH0001 He sort of alouded to that at 1:17:20. We are all "horseshoe nails" in the analogy imployed by Ben Franklin

[HAPPYTHELEAF]

As each Nation, lucky enough to have a constitution, becomes more and more cultureless and diluted racially, ethnically and in creed its Constitution is ammended and erroded to facilitate thoses who dont. But mostly the threat is greed.

[GLEACH0001]

The fate of the constitution depends on "civic leaders"? No, it doesn't. Its fate depends on the awareness of this nation's citizens, and this nation's judicial, executive,and legislative branches fulfilling their obligation to acknowledge and be true to its contents--which are not privileges granted but inherent rights to be acknowledged and accorded to by all.