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Republicans or, perhaps I should rather say, neoconservatives, have a really hard time with the concept that the federal government was designed by our founders to provide such things as health care (as opposed to having everything be a for-profit exercise by private corporations benefitting the very few who control them), precisely because they choose to ignore that the Preamble is a functional part of the Constitution.
Think Progress » Republicans Block Bills Ensuring Continuation Of Military Health Care 2010
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The "Preamble" is a little dramatic, but the info in the piece is very very helpful in describing what many of us already know.
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The Preamble is short - just 52 words and a single run-on sentence that sets up the lofty goals of the Framers.
Vail Daily - Top Stories Rohn Robbins Vail 2010
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The Preamble is short - just 52 words and a single run-on sentence that sets up the lofty goals of the Framers.
Vail Daily - Top Stories Rohn Robbins Vail 2010
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The Preamble is short - just 52 words and a single run-on sentence that sets up the lofty goals of the Framers.
Vail Daily - Top Stories Rohn Robbins Vail 2010
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The Preamble is short - just 52 words and a single run-on sentence that sets up the lofty goals of the Framers.
Vail Daily - Top Stories Rohn Robbins Vail 2010
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Ok, maybe reading the compound sentence of the Preamble is too much to ask for, so I’ll make it more simple: What part of ‘We the people’ is anti-social?
Think Progress » Anti-Obama billboards spring up in Atlanta. 2010
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The Preamble is the Rosetta Stone of a Bill, or Constitution, in order to figure out the founding fathers intent when it was first established.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Supreme Court Without Stare Decisis: 2009
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If any exercise of powers delegated by the Constitution is for any other reason than what is declared in the Preamble aka Intents and Purposes Clause than such an exercise is unconstitutional.
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Accompanying the Preamble will be the famed chain-gang bobble-heads of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice, adorned in prison garb with chains and teeny balls.
Will Media Broadcast "THE PEOPLE'S PARADE" At The Rose Parade New Years Day?? 2007
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