July 4, 2025 - Our Constitution & Copperhead Road Line Dance (USA)

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Hi, dancers,  

"No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has 

been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for 

all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…" 

Winston S Churchill, 11/11/1947

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Our Constitution, the foundation of our Democracy, was written eleven

years after our 1776 Declaration of Independence and was ratified in 1789.

The Preamble.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves 

and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States 

of America".

For our Constitution's seven articles and 27 amendments 

(the first ten are the Bill of Rights, of course), 

please click this link.  https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution

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A "new preamble" to the bill that was passed by the Senate and

House - just in time for signing on Independence Day- with war planes

flying above (according to the NY Post).  

“We the billionaires, and our King, in order to deform and sicken our union, establish 

injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our people’s defenses, undermine the general 

welfare and reserve for ourselves and our posterity staggering debt servitude for 

eternity, do hereby instruct the Republicans in Congress to strip 17 million people of their 

health care, increase copays, deductibles and premiums for everyone else, cut 42 million 

people off nutritional assistance, increase the national debt by $4 trillion, trash renewable 

energy systems, increase our electric bills for the carbon kings, all to weaken and destroy 

the Constitution of the people of these United States of America.”      

Democrat Jamie Raskin, 2025  

 "...this marks the largest investment in detention and deportation in U.S. history; a policy 

choice that does nothing to address the systemic failures of our immigration system while 

inflicting harm, sowing chaos, and tearing families apart."      

American Immigration Council

($170 billion total for immigration/deportation and expansion the ICE "police" force - 

according to NPR.) 

" ... the destruction of the rule of law ... to create a world where the rich people get 

everything."      Heather Cox Richardson, American historian,  video:  

How the Supreme Court Allowed T. to Reshape America in One Year.

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The 1988 lyrics of “Copperhead Road,” a line dance we've enjoyed on Monday, link the 

cycle of poverty and war with federal drug policy.  Singer-songwriter Steve Earle uses irony 

to show how John Lee Pettimore III escapes government law enforcement by using techniques 

taught to him as a soldier. Earle writes with clarity about how an unsustainable system 

self-destructs by using the very tools it created.   

(Edited from American Songwriter.)

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