The drafters of the Constitution... wisely put restraints on the president.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.
We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.
Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.
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