• The 'Other' Trinity: America's Three Constitutions

    As the Democrats in Congress mull over the idea of increasing the size of the Supreme Court (the Constitution does not specify the number of justices) or of ending the filibuster (nowhere mentioned in the Constitution), it may be useful to think about the American political system in a broader way. A political majority has the legal right to change the number of Supreme Court justices, but there are other important factors than the letter of the Constitution. I want to briefly describe the three American “constitutions”: first, the actual written Constitution, ratified in 1787 and amended just 27 times over 234 years; second, what might be called the “small-c” constitution, the set of norms, habits and procedures that are not enumerated in the written Constitution but have achieved a deep rootedness in American civic life; and third, the ways the American people actually “constitute” their lives, more often outside the realm of civics, but which have to be taken into account by anyone wishing to lead or shape American life.
    We the people - the Big "C" constitution
    The Big "C" Constitution.(Shutterstock)
    The Formal Constitution

    The formal 1787 Constitution needs little description. There it is, 4,534 words, encapsulating the civic intentions of 55 white men who deliberated, debated, argued, and above all compromised for 115 days at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, windows closed, to hammer out “a more perfect union” for 3.9 million Americans, one in five a slave. No women were present, no African Americans free or enslaved, no Native Americans, no Jews or Muslims. The delegates, called by Jefferson an “assembly of demigods,” were all white privileged men. The Constitution established a new, stronger national government for the United States. It created two houses in Congress, and established minimum eligibility requirements for the president and for senators and members of the House of Representatives. It enumerated the powers of each of the three branches of government. It set procedures for ratifying a treaty, presidential vetoes of Congressional legislation, and the manner in which a veto could be overturned by a two-thirds vote in both houses. With, as they said in the 18th century, a long train of et ceteras.
    The small-c constitution is the set of norms, habits, and procedures that are not enumerated in the written Constitution but have achieved a deep rootedness in American civic life
    The “Small-c” Constitution


    The capital-C constitution was a general recipe for a new national government, but it did not descend into particulars on many important questions. It did not create a presidential cabinet, for example, but some such entity is hinted at in Article 2, Section 2, which says the president “may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices.” George Washington established a four-member cabinet (State, War, Treasury, and Attorney General) a few months into his first term, and though some presidents have made much greater use of their cabinets than others, no subsequent president has dared to dispense with this American institution, now numbering 24 members. The capital-C Constitution did not authorize the Supreme Court to determine which laws were constitutional and which violated provisions of the Constitution (judicial review). Chief Justice John Marshall single-handedly instituted judicial review in 1803 in the famous case Marbury v. Madison, when he decided, without explicit Constitutional authority, that one clause of the Judiciary Act of 1789 was unconstitutional and therefore void, and declared, in what amounts to a judicial declaration of independence, “It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.” Thus, one of the central bulwarks of American civic life was not established in the capital-C Constitution, but it has achieved not just quasi-constitutional status in the United States but is so deeply rooted and uniformly accepted that nothing could possibly displace it now.
    Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall_by_Henry_Inman,1832
    A 1932 portrait of the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Marshall.(Shutterstock)
    The Constitution requires the president to advise Congress on the state of the union from time to time, but the annual ritual of the president riding up to Capitol Hill to address a joint session of Congress, with an endless series of standing ovations, special guests in the gallery, the Supreme Court justices all sitting in the front row, the joint chiefs of staff present and accounted for, belongs to the small-c constitution. Although Washington and John Adams delivered their annual messages personally before Congress, Thomas Jefferson broke that precedent before it could get deeply rooted in American civic life, because he thought it smelled of monarchy, and it wasn’t until Woodrow Wilson (1913) that the modern habit (now something of a political circus) was initiated, and rarely avoided since.

    Perhaps more to the point for the politics of 2021, the capital-C Constitution does not specify the number of Supreme Court justices. Congress gets to set the number through routine legislation. It could be nine, 19, or 90, and it has been set at six, five, seven, nine, and 10 in the course of American history. If the Democrats today forced through a court-packing bill raising the number of justices to 12, for example, they would not be violating the capital-C Constitution, which is silent on this question, but they would be violating what turns out to be a very deeply rooted and seemingly sacrosanct provision of the small-c constitution. This alone illustrates the immense power of the unratified small-c constitution. Even the Democrats who wish to reshape the balance of the Supreme Court by creating new positions they can fill with progressive justices sense that they are tiptoeing around a very important American taboo, as Franklin Roosevelt discovered in 1937, when he tried to raise the number of justices so that he could install individuals who would not strike down key provisions of the New Deal.
    New Deal and the campaign to pack the Supreme Court
    A political cartoon from 1937 illustrates the dust up around Franklin Roosevelt's effort to raise the number of Supreme Court justices in order to protect key provisions of the New Deal.
    The 'Other' Trinity: America's Three Constitutions As the Democrats in Congress mull over the idea of increasing the size of the Supreme Court (the Constitution does not specify the number of justices) or of ending the filibuster (nowhere mentioned in the Constitution), it may be useful to think about the American political system in a broader way. A political majority has the legal right to change the number of Supreme Court justices, but there are other important factors than the letter of the Constitution. I want to briefly describe the three American “constitutions”: first, the actual written Constitution, ratified in 1787 and amended just 27 times over 234 years; second, what might be called the “small-c” constitution, the set of norms, habits and procedures that are not enumerated in the written Constitution but have achieved a deep rootedness in American civic life; and third, the ways the American people actually “constitute” their lives, more often outside the realm of civics, but which have to be taken into account by anyone wishing to lead or shape American life. We the people - the Big "C" constitution The Big "C" Constitution.(Shutterstock) The Formal Constitution The formal 1787 Constitution needs little description. There it is, 4,534 words, encapsulating the civic intentions of 55 white men who deliberated, debated, argued, and above all compromised for 115 days at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, windows closed, to hammer out “a more perfect union” for 3.9 million Americans, one in five a slave. No women were present, no African Americans free or enslaved, no Native Americans, no Jews or Muslims. The delegates, called by Jefferson an “assembly of demigods,” were all white privileged men. The Constitution established a new, stronger national government for the United States. It created two houses in Congress, and established minimum eligibility requirements for the president and for senators and members of the House of Representatives. It enumerated the powers of each of the three branches of government. It set procedures for ratifying a treaty, presidential vetoes of Congressional legislation, and the manner in which a veto could be overturned by a two-thirds vote in both houses. With, as they said in the 18th century, a long train of et ceteras. The small-c constitution is the set of norms, habits, and procedures that are not enumerated in the written Constitution but have achieved a deep rootedness in American civic life The “Small-c” Constitution The capital-C constitution was a general recipe for a new national government, but it did not descend into particulars on many important questions. It did not create a presidential cabinet, for example, but some such entity is hinted at in Article 2, Section 2, which says the president “may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices.” George Washington established a four-member cabinet (State, War, Treasury, and Attorney General) a few months into his first term, and though some presidents have made much greater use of their cabinets than others, no subsequent president has dared to dispense with this American institution, now numbering 24 members. The capital-C Constitution did not authorize the Supreme Court to determine which laws were constitutional and which violated provisions of the Constitution (judicial review). Chief Justice John Marshall single-handedly instituted judicial review in 1803 in the famous case Marbury v. Madison, when he decided, without explicit Constitutional authority, that one clause of the Judiciary Act of 1789 was unconstitutional and therefore void, and declared, in what amounts to a judicial declaration of independence, “It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.” Thus, one of the central bulwarks of American civic life was not established in the capital-C Constitution, but it has achieved not just quasi-constitutional status in the United States but is so deeply rooted and uniformly accepted that nothing could possibly displace it now. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall_by_Henry_Inman,1832 A 1932 portrait of the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Marshall.(Shutterstock) The Constitution requires the president to advise Congress on the state of the union from time to time, but the annual ritual of the president riding up to Capitol Hill to address a joint session of Congress, with an endless series of standing ovations, special guests in the gallery, the Supreme Court justices all sitting in the front row, the joint chiefs of staff present and accounted for, belongs to the small-c constitution. Although Washington and John Adams delivered their annual messages personally before Congress, Thomas Jefferson broke that precedent before it could get deeply rooted in American civic life, because he thought it smelled of monarchy, and it wasn’t until Woodrow Wilson (1913) that the modern habit (now something of a political circus) was initiated, and rarely avoided since. Perhaps more to the point for the politics of 2021, the capital-C Constitution does not specify the number of Supreme Court justices. Congress gets to set the number through routine legislation. It could be nine, 19, or 90, and it has been set at six, five, seven, nine, and 10 in the course of American history. If the Democrats today forced through a court-packing bill raising the number of justices to 12, for example, they would not be violating the capital-C Constitution, which is silent on this question, but they would be violating what turns out to be a very deeply rooted and seemingly sacrosanct provision of the small-c constitution. This alone illustrates the immense power of the unratified small-c constitution. Even the Democrats who wish to reshape the balance of the Supreme Court by creating new positions they can fill with progressive justices sense that they are tiptoeing around a very important American taboo, as Franklin Roosevelt discovered in 1937, when he tried to raise the number of justices so that he could install individuals who would not strike down key provisions of the New Deal. New Deal and the campaign to pack the Supreme Court A political cartoon from 1937 illustrates the dust up around Franklin Roosevelt's effort to raise the number of Supreme Court justices in order to protect key provisions of the New Deal.
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  • Report: Zelensky Asks ‘Spirit Cooking’ Occult Artist Marina Abramović to Be Ambassador for Ukraine
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/09/23/report-zelensky-asks-spirit-cooking-occult-artist-marina-abramovic-to-be-ambassador-for-ukraine/

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has allegedly asked occult “Spirit Cooking” performance artist Marina Abramović to serve as an ambassador for his country, according to a report from London’s Daily Telegraph.

    Ahead of debuting her first solo exhibition in Britain, the controversial 76-year-old Serbian claimed that President Zelensky has asked her to become an ambassador for Ukraine and to help the country rebuild its school system.

    In comments reported by The Telegraph, Abramović said: “I have been invited by Zelensky to be an ambassador of Ukraine, to help the children affected by rebuilding schools and such.”

    The Serbian artist went on to claim that she has also been invited to join the board of the Babyn Yar organisation to help protect the Holocaust memorial centre for Jews killed by Nazis in Ukraine, which was damaged in a Russian missile attack shortly following last year’s invasion of the country.
    Report: Zelensky Asks ‘Spirit Cooking’ Occult Artist Marina Abramović to Be Ambassador for Ukraine https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/09/23/report-zelensky-asks-spirit-cooking-occult-artist-marina-abramovic-to-be-ambassador-for-ukraine/ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has allegedly asked occult “Spirit Cooking” performance artist Marina Abramović to serve as an ambassador for his country, according to a report from London’s Daily Telegraph. Ahead of debuting her first solo exhibition in Britain, the controversial 76-year-old Serbian claimed that President Zelensky has asked her to become an ambassador for Ukraine and to help the country rebuild its school system. In comments reported by The Telegraph, Abramović said: “I have been invited by Zelensky to be an ambassador of Ukraine, to help the children affected by rebuilding schools and such.” The Serbian artist went on to claim that she has also been invited to join the board of the Babyn Yar organisation to help protect the Holocaust memorial centre for Jews killed by Nazis in Ukraine, which was damaged in a Russian missile attack shortly following last year’s invasion of the country.
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    Report: Zelensky Asks ‘Spirit Cooking’ Occult Artist Marina Abramović to Be an Ambassador
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked occult "Spirit Cooking" artist Marina Abramović to serve as an ambassador, according to The Telegraph.
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  • Jews & the Sabbath

    An excellent playlist of videos from "World's Last Chance" about the Sabbath!
    Check out the "Creator's Calendar!"

    We need to honor the correct Sabbath AND be aware of the perfect clock which the Creator built for us in the heavens!

    Check it out and test it against scripture!

    https://youtu.be/toOuGMaM5mE?list=PLDA1391BF01192F3B
    Jews & the Sabbath An excellent playlist of videos from "World's Last Chance" about the Sabbath! Check out the "Creator's Calendar!" We need to honor the correct Sabbath AND be aware of the perfect clock which the Creator built for us in the heavens! Check it out and test it against scripture! https://youtu.be/toOuGMaM5mE?list=PLDA1391BF01192F3B
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  • GENOCIDE
    11 million Germans were murdered after the war. The kazarian Mafia that took over the USA wanted to cover that up by claiming 6 million Jews were murdered in camps. Only 200,000 Jews died in camps mostly because we bombed all the food and transportation in Germany. They died from disease and starvation as did the Germans. The mafia is about to get Justice for their crimes.
    GENOCIDE 11 million Germans were murdered after the war. The kazarian Mafia that took over the USA wanted to cover that up by claiming 6 million Jews were murdered in camps. Only 200,000 Jews died in camps mostly because we bombed all the food and transportation in Germany. They died from disease and starvation as did the Germans. The mafia is about to get Justice for their crimes.
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  • The Golden Ratio - the Fingerprints of God and Signature of the Architect

    People will ask you to "Prove this" or "prove that" to them.....
    I cannot "Prove" anything to anyone!

    All that I can do is to point out the #Truth!
    Whether people choose to believe the truth or not....
    That's on them!

    I have shown "Proof" that the Earth is not a spinning ball for years!
    That does not mean people will choose to believe it!

    Like this guy, this morning... He says
    "Prove to me a god and a devil exists, I'll wait..."

    I could spend 4 days showing this guy how bible prophecy has came true, the PROOF of what is written within it is backed up by history...

    How #Freemasons, #Jews, #Jesuits, and #Hollywood ALL WORSHIP THE DEVIL
    (Pretty strange for people who "Do not believe")

    And I can show him the Creator's signature....
    But that don't mean he'll accept ANY OF IT!

    Why waste my time? I can already see that he is not paying attention to the world around him! Besides, I never signed up to be your "Teacher"

    Jesus came here to be a teacher... and you have refused to listen to Him, so why should I bother trying to educate you? It's already proven you are not paying attention! If you'd like to PAY ME I'll be glad to be your tutor though!

    So I told him this....
    "It's not my job to prove anything to you. You should be able to look around and make that determination for yourself! It requires more faith to be an atheist than it does to be a believer! Evidence is everywhere that you are a created being! And that's just viewing the evidence of history, not taking into account the signature of your Creator! Phi and the golden ratio. I try to point people in the right direction, but I have no control over what you choose to believe! Myself, I believe nothing that anyone else says! But I will sometimes use it as a starting point to do my own research!"

    Word of advice.... STOP asking other people to determine YOUR REALITY for you! You need to take the time to WEIGH THE EVIDENCE, and determine it for yourself! Stay away from people who try to get you to believe things!

    I'm simply pointing out TRUTH here... If you are intelligent enough to actually look into it for yourself.... You'll see I'm telling you the truth! But I cannot "PROVE" anything to you! That is YOUR JOB!

    Go back through my feed and see how many LIES I've told that YOU CAN PROVE and that'll be a pretty good indicator of whether or not you should listen to me or not! But don't ask me to "prove" anything to you UNLESS IT'S A JOB OFFER!

    https://odysee.com/@stpierrs:f/The-Golden-Ratio---the-Fingerprints-of-God-and-Signature-of-the-Architect-:9
    The Golden Ratio - the Fingerprints of God and Signature of the Architect People will ask you to "Prove this" or "prove that" to them..... I cannot "Prove" anything to anyone! All that I can do is to point out the #Truth! Whether people choose to believe the truth or not.... That's on them! I have shown "Proof" that the Earth is not a spinning ball for years! That does not mean people will choose to believe it! Like this guy, this morning... He says "Prove to me a god and a devil exists, I'll wait..." I could spend 4 days showing this guy how bible prophecy has came true, the PROOF of what is written within it is backed up by history... How #Freemasons, #Jews, #Jesuits, and #Hollywood ALL WORSHIP THE DEVIL (Pretty strange for people who "Do not believe") And I can show him the Creator's signature.... But that don't mean he'll accept ANY OF IT! Why waste my time? I can already see that he is not paying attention to the world around him! Besides, I never signed up to be your "Teacher" Jesus came here to be a teacher... and you have refused to listen to Him, so why should I bother trying to educate you? It's already proven you are not paying attention! If you'd like to PAY ME I'll be glad to be your tutor though! So I told him this.... "It's not my job to prove anything to you. You should be able to look around and make that determination for yourself! It requires more faith to be an atheist than it does to be a believer! Evidence is everywhere that you are a created being! And that's just viewing the evidence of history, not taking into account the signature of your Creator! Phi and the golden ratio. I try to point people in the right direction, but I have no control over what you choose to believe! Myself, I believe nothing that anyone else says! But I will sometimes use it as a starting point to do my own research!" Word of advice.... STOP asking other people to determine YOUR REALITY for you! You need to take the time to WEIGH THE EVIDENCE, and determine it for yourself! Stay away from people who try to get you to believe things! I'm simply pointing out TRUTH here... If you are intelligent enough to actually look into it for yourself.... You'll see I'm telling you the truth! But I cannot "PROVE" anything to you! That is YOUR JOB! Go back through my feed and see how many LIES I've told that YOU CAN PROVE and that'll be a pretty good indicator of whether or not you should listen to me or not! But don't ask me to "prove" anything to you UNLESS IT'S A JOB OFFER! https://odysee.com/@stpierrs:f/The-Golden-Ratio---the-Fingerprints-of-God-and-Signature-of-the-Architect-:9
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