Western Standard - August 09, 2026


1982 Constitution ｜ Speaker Who Voted Against Reveals All


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1 minute

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183.52

Word count

274

Sentence count

18

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Misogyny

1

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Hate speech

1

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 wanted to explain to him that I was against the constitution because, and then we talked
00:00:05.440 about this in the last episode, that we were moving to a codified constitution from a non-codified
00:00:10.980 constitution. It was going to mean judicial supremacy. It was going to mean centralization
00:00:15.520 of power. It was going to mean that my aspirations of solving Western Indian nation were over
00:00:20.760 because it was going to become static. Evolution goes out the window. And I understood that 0.99
00:00:27.380 a codified constitution creates an organic state. And so that organic state has mind of its own,
00:00:34.900 it has an aspiration of its own, it is separate and distinct from people. And what we what we
00:00:39.460 were leaving was what's called a mechanical form of government, which is just it's a mechanical way
00:00:44.740 of parties, different interests, they come together, they figure out a way to live together
00:00:48.900 and a plan to go forward. And they make laws to accommodate that. So we were moving into this
00:00:54.820 organic state. And I didn't want to do that. The United States is probably the most successful
00:00:59.920 nation state in the world, but it is an organic state. It has a life and existence that is
00:01:04.600 separate and distinct. And part of that separate entity is the bureaucracy around it. So the
00:01:10.160 bureaucracy for us, what was once the civil service is now just a bureaucracy. And we saw
00:01:17.140 in mandates under COVID, bureaucracy, and this is what Brian Peckford complained about,
00:01:22.100 That bureaucracy has a life of its own, and it rules over the people.
00:01:26.680 It's not responsible to the people. 0.59
00:01:28.560 It rules over them.