Supremacy HELL!

If you would like to have just a slice of understanding of the Constitution, how it is to be viewed, understood, interpreted and applied today, DVR the Levin show on FOX; his interview with Senator Mike Lee R-UT. He is one of a handful remaining of bona fide Constitutional Scholars.

Elected in 2010 as Utah's 16th Senator, Mike Lee has spent his career defending the basic liberties of Americans and “Utahns” as a tireless advocate for our founding constitutional principles.

Senator Lee acquired a deep respect for the Constitution early on. His father, Rex Lee, who served as the Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan, would often discuss varied aspects of judicial and constitutional doctrine around the kitchen table, from Due Process to the uses of Executive Plenary Power. He attended most of his father's arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, giving him a unique, hands-on experience and understanding of government up close.

Lee graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science, and served as BYU's Student Body President in his senior year. He graduated from BYU's Law School in 1997 and went on to serve as law clerk to Judge Dee Benson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, and then with future Supreme Court Justice Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

He gets it! If you want case law, go to Harvard. If you want the Constitution, go just about anywhere else. A word of advice; the “Supremacy Clause” is supreme only with respect to the federal powers as set out in Art 1 Sect 8, all else is left to the States and to the People. Another word of caution to those of you who have no understanding of elections by States but hope for a simple democracy: Keep in mind; Lincoln won with the Constitutionally provided electoral process. Lincoln only garnered less than 40% of the popular vote but won the Electoral College. Think for a moment; what if Stephen Douglas had won and the first GOP candidate had lost.

Are you or I smarter than those of the Age of Enlightenment who put this all together? I do not even have to wonder—their minds, their character, their commitment to binding this Republic to the Creator cannot be matched today. Very few today can even compute that. Mike Lee comes to the table with honesty and integrity. He is from the Libertarian [Jeffersonian] wing of the GOP.

Do yourself a favor and DVR this interview, one full hour of a real, true Constitutionalist, as it was intended. If we can only rescind the 17^th Amendment, we can again, have the Republic, as intended, and not until.