Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.


I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.


It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.


The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Tennessee gets smart about illegals' driving certificates.

In a fleeting fit of clarity Tennessee has stopped issuing driving certificates to illegal immigrants. Instead, people who want a driving certificate must prove they are in our country legally. I find it amazing a government, whose purpose is to uphold the law, would grant identity documents to criminals rather than issuing subpoenas and fines to said criminals. I'm glad this procedure has been stopped. Criminality should never be rewarded or excused.