From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Trencher Trenching Tool: Stu in Utah.
One Ounce Morgan Silver Round: Norm in Hawaii.
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Hal Apeeno and Darzak are sponsoring a drawing for From the Trenches World Report.
Hal Apeeno has donated a Trencher, about 3.5 lbs and about 28″ in length. Dig with an e-tool, and dig with this. Continue reading “May Drawing for From the Trenches”
“And it is equally true, that a considerable part of those who voted for it in the convention, wish to see it altered. In both these states the body of the common people, who always do the fighting of a country, would be more likely to fight against than for it.”
By Melancthon Smith (a “PLEBIAN”)
. . . . It is agreed, the plan is defective – that some of the powers granted are dangerous – others not well defined – and amendments are necessary – why then not amend it? Why not remove the cause of danger, and, if possible, even the apprehension of it? The instrument is yet in the hands of the people; it is not signed, sealed, and delivered, and they have power to give it any form they please. Continue reading “Anti-Federalist Paper No. 85 – Concluding Remarks: Evils Under Confederation Exaggerated; Constitution Must Be Drastically Revised Before Adoption”
By “BRUTUS”
When a building is to be erected which is intended to stand for ages, the foundation should be firmly laid. The Constitution proposed to your acceptance is designed, not for yourselves alone, but for generations yet unborn. The principles, therefore, upon which the social compact is founded, ought to have been clearly and precisely stated, and the most express and full declaration of rights to have been made. But on this subject there is almost an entire silence. Continue reading “Anti-Federalist Paper No. 84 – On The Lack Of A Bill Of Rights”
“I believe it is a new and unusual thing to allow appeals in criminal matters. It is contrary to the sense of our laws, and dangerous to our lives and liberties. . . . As our law now stands, a person charged with a crime has a right to a fair and impartial trial by a jury of his country, and their verdict is final. If be is acquitted no other court can call upon him to answer for the same crime. But by this system, a man may have had ever so fair a trial, have been acquitted by ever so respectable a jury of his country, and still the officer of the government who prosecutes may appeal to the supreme court. The whole matter may have a second hearing. By this means, persons who may have disobliged those who execute the general government, may be subjected to intolerable oppression. They may be kept in long and ruinous confinement, and exposed to heavy and insupportable charges, to procure the attendance of witnesses, and provide the means of their defense, at a great distance from their places of residence.” Continue reading “Anti-Federalist Paper No. 81 – The Power Of The Judiciary (Part 3)”
It has been two years today since our brother, Diggerdan, passed from among us. Diggerdan was one of the cornerstones our family here in the Trenches was built upon, as down to earth as a mountain and wise in ways few attain in this world.
We all got to know Dan via his one-of-a-kind comments that will never be replicated. His life’s experience was truly amazing as he was indeed a victim of the MK-Ultra program and had been down many roads in his personal struggle against the evil machine that is the insurgent government that has taken over in our highest seats of power. Continue reading “We Miss You, Diggerdan”
“That the judicial power of the United States, will lean strongly in favor of the general government, and will give such an explanation to the constitution, as will favor an extension of its jurisdiction, is very evident from a variety of considerations.”
From the 11th essay of “Brutus” taken from The New-York Journal, January 31, 1788.
The nature and extent of the judicial power of the United States, proposed to be granted by the constitution, claims our particular attention. Continue reading “Anti-Federalist Paper No. 80 – The Power Of The Judiciary (Part 2)”
“Who is it that does not know, that by treaties in Europe the succession and constitution of many sovereign states, has been regulated.”
The following essay was penned anonymously by “HAMPDEN,” and it appeared in The Pittsburgh Gazette on February 16, 1788.
…. It may be freely granted, that from a mistaken zeal in favor of that political liberty which was so recently purchased at so costly a rate, even good men may give it [the constitution] unreasonable opposition; but such men cannot be reasonably charged with sordid personal interest as their motive – because it is great and sudden changes which produces opportunities of preferment. Continue reading “Anti-Federalist Paper No. 75 – A Note Protesting The Treaty-Making Provisions Of The Constitution”
“This novel system of government, were it possible to establish it, would be a compound of monarchy and aristocracy, the most accursed that ever the world witnessed.”
“PHILADELPHIENSIS,” who was influenced by Thomas Paine (in “Common Sense), wrote the following selection. It is taken from 3 essays which appeared February 6 & 20, and April 9 of 1788 in either The Freeman’s Journal or, The North-American Intelligencer.
Before martial law is declared to be the supreme law of the land, and your character of free citizens be changed to that of the subjects of a military king – which are necessary consequences of the adoption of the proposed constitution – let me admonish you in the name of sacred liberty, to make a solemn pause. Permit a freeman to address you, and to solicit your attention to a cause wherein yourselves and your posterity are concerned. The sun never shone upon a more important one. It is the cause of freedom of a whole continent of yourselves and of your fellow men. . . . Continue reading “Anti-Federalist Paper No. 74 – The President As Military King”
“WILLIAM PENN,” an anonymous writer appeared in the [Philadelphia] Independent Gazetteer on January 3, 1788.
. . . I believe that it is universally agreed upon in this enlightened country, that all power residing originally in the people, and being derived from them, they ought to be governed by themselves only, or by their immediate representatives. I shall not spend any time in explaining a principle so well and so generally understood, but I shall proceed immediately to that which I conceive to be the next in order. Continue reading “Anti-Federalist Paper No. 73 – Does The Presidential Veto Power Infringe On The Separation Of Departments?”
A Florida woman turned the tables on a man who had been convicted of preying on women in public places, and the video is going viral.
Candice Spivey said she was approached by a man at a Target store outside Jacksonville while she was looking at swimsuits. Continue reading “Perverts Flock to Target”
There will be no broadcast of The Word From the Trenches today, I have a doctor’s appointment.
We will be back tomorrow.
From a speech by William Grayson given to the Virginia ratifying convention on June 18, 1788.
Mr. [William] GRAYSON. Mr. Chairman, one great objection with me is this: If we advert to. . . . . [the] democratical, aristocratical, or executive branch, we shall find their powers are perpetually varying and fluctuating throughout the whole. Perhaps the democratic branch would be well constructed, were it not for this defect. The executive is still worse, in this respect, than the democratic branch. He is to be elected by a number of electors in the country; but the principle is changed when no person has a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, or when more than one have such a majority, and have an equal number of votes; for then the lower house is to vote by states. Continue reading “Anti-Federalist Paper No. 68 – On The Mode Of Electing The President”
The American Family Association is calling for a boycott of Target after the retail giant said it would allow men to use the women’s restrooms and dressing rooms in their stores. Continue reading “Sign the Boycott Target Pledge!”
“The sole power of impeachment being vested in them, they have it in their power to control the representative in this democratic right; to screen from punishment, or rather from conviction, all high offenders, being their creatures, and to keep in awe all opponents to their power in high office.”
Taken from the New York Journal, Nov. 22, 1787 by CINCINNATUS It appears to have been written in answer to James Wilson’s Anti-Federalist # 12)
I come now, sir, to the most exceptionable part of the Constitution – the Senate. In this, as in every other part, you [James Wilson of Pennsylvania] are in the line of your profession Law], and on that ground assure your fellow citizens, that – perhaps there never was a charge made with less reason, than that which predicts the institution of a baneful aristocracy in the Federal Senate. Continue reading “Anti-Federalist Paper No. 64 – On The Organization And Powers Of The Senate (Part 3)”
This photograph was taken with all permissions needed from Klamath Tribal Chief and Governor of Chiloquin, Don Gentry.
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. . . . It is well observed by Montesquieu, that in republican governments the forms of elections are fundamental; and that it is an essential part of the social compact, to ascertain by whom, to whom, when, and in what manner, suffrages are to be given. Wherever we find the regulation of elections have not been carefully fixed by the constitution, or the principles of them, we constantly see new legislatures modifying . . . [their] own form, and changing the spirit of the government to answer partial purposes.
By the proposed plan it is fixed, that the qualifications of the electors of the federal representatives shall be the same as those of the electors of state representatives; though these vary some in the several states the electors are fixed and designated. Continue reading “Anti-Federalist Paper No. 61 – Questions And Comments On The Constitutional Provisions Regarding The Election Of Congressmen”
Last Day!
Bulldog, Mary, Missy, Frost Jack, Mike from Minnesota, Mark Schumacher, Flee, and Millard are sponsoring a drawing for From the Trenches World Report.
Bulldog has provided 28 pre-1964 silver dimes. (Jolly Roger not included) Continue reading “From the Trenches April Drawing”
I wonder who he intended to take to the prom.
In a stunning development, a star center for a Canadian high school basketball team was exposed as a 30-year-old African refugee, leading to his being detained in connection with the Immigration Refugee Protection Act. Continue reading “Canadian border officials arrest 30-year-old Sudanese refugee posing as 17-year-old basketball player”