Celebrate 'Bill of Rights Day'

Alan Caruba reminds us that Dec. 15 is Bill of Rights Day, a national holiday signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941, and offers a perspective on how government is constantly threatening the rights of the governed.

From Caruba's post at his Warning Signs blog:

The reason for the Bill of Rights is fairly straightforward. The citizens of the United States had come from nations where such rights were virtually non-existent although Britain had set their enumeration in motion with the Magna Carta in 1215 that put limitations of its monarchy.

The Bill of Rights was about limiting the power of the federal government and the Constitution is a brilliant document that makes the passing of laws a deliberately slow process to ensure they are subject to public notice and discussion.

This is in sharp contrast to what is occurring in Congress today as the Obama administration strives to push through laws that require more than 2,000 pages to extend government control over the nation's health care system or impose a high tax on the use of energy by everyone. The summer’s many town hall meetings were testimony to the fact that some 80% of America’s citizens oppose Obamacare and the tens of thousands who showed up in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 12 should have been sufficient to kill the bill.

Read the full post at Warning Signs