Gary Hunt's Blog – August 2011 Archive (6)

Shattered Illusions

An Awakening

August 31, 2011

Committee of Digital Correspondence

Amelia Foxwell, Correspondent

Part I - Reaching Out

This is a story about an awakening -- an epiphany.  It is about an everyday housewife and mother of two young boys in middle America who lived the simple dream of family.  Like so many, she believed her family was safe and secure in a world that was essentially good and just, where bad guys were…

"We the People", but, Who are We? - Part V

Gary Hunt

Outpost of Freedom

August 3, 2011

In Part I, we established what the Supreme Court determined to be "We the People", or, "citizens of the United States", prior to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment.

In Part II, we saw that the Fourteenth Amendment conferred to those…

"We the People", but, Who are We? - Part IV

Gary Hunt

Outpost of Freedom

July 21, 2011

In Part I, we established what the Supreme Court determined to be "We the People", or, "citizens of the United States", prior to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment.

In Part II, we saw that the Fourteenth Amendment conferred to those…

"We the People", but, Who are We? - Part III

Gary Hunt

Outpost of Freedom

July 20, 2011

So, we have established that "rights" were not conveyed by the Fourteenth Amendment, only "privileges and immunities".  Or, have we?  Of course, to this point, it is only words and omission of words that can lead us to that conclusion.

Understand, however, that the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and early legislation was written so that all could understand what was…

"We the People", but, Who are We? - Part II

Gary Hunt

Outpost of Freedom

July 19, 2011

In the first part, Justice Taney [Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who delivered the Decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856)], speaking from the past, explained who was, and, who was not of that class of people known as "We the People.  Recapping that post:

We think they [descendents of slaves, whether free, or not] are not, and that they are not…

"We the People", but, Who are We? - Part I

Gary Hunt

Outpost of Freedom

July 18, 2011

In some research for another article (The Fourteenth Article in Amendment to the Constitution), I ran across a rather enlightening revelation.  It was, just 60 years after the Constitution, a clear and concise definition of just (and only) who the "We the People", in the Preamble to the Constitution, really…