Caucus Resolution: Bills Of Rights
There are two very significant concerns that have become evident over the past 8 years, threatening both the economic health and the very foundational fabric of
First, the great mass of Americans seem to be unaware of the foundational principles of our liberty; namely the Bill of Rights. Indeed, a recent study presented basic passages of the Bill of Rights to random passers-by on the street, who were told that these were proposals now being considered by Congress. An alarming number of respondents said that they found the proposed “new laws” to be “too liberal!”
Second, there is a grave danger that regimes hostile to the
Finally, we are involved in a great ideological global effort presently to introduce the idea of liberty to people and cultures who have never known anything comparable.
The solution to these problems is radically common sense.
What sets
The most widely distributed and universally desired product the
Therefore this proposal: let us retire the old bills, with pretty pictures of monuments, and introduce a new design of currency: Bills Of Rights.
Each denomination would carry, up its reverse, a passage from the Bill of Rights:
Millions of Americans waiting in bank lines, sitting at bars and restaurants, and riding buses, often take the time to read whatever is available. Within a short time, tens of millions of Americans who have never read these sacred, inalienable rights will have been exposed to their precious meaning.
What repressive dictator is going to want to print millions and millions of little pamphlets detailing the rights that he is denying his people?
English is the most commonly understood language on Earth. In madrassas in
"A resolution In Support Of Bills Of Rights.
As it is the foundational principles of America, espoused in the Bill of Rights, not the buildings and symbols common to any culture, that makes our Republic uniquely a bastion of liberty and beacon to the world; and,
And, whereas the cuts in funding of civics and history lessons in American public schools over the last decade have diminished an entire generation’s knowledge of these foundational principles; and,
And, whereas we are now engaged in a global ideological struggle that would be vastly aided by the wide distribution of the knowledge of these principles;
And, whereas numerous technological tools, graphics and watermarks have not discouraged regimes hostile to the
Be It Resolved that it is the official position of the Democratic Party that the present currency be redesigned to include, upon the reverse of each bill, a passage from the Bill of Rights, not to exclude any."
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