Chapter 20: Myth—Politics Doesn’t Matter

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During 1962, both houses of Congress and the Presidency belonged to the Democrats in overwhelming numbers. Consider that the Senate was veto

proof with 65 Democrats and only 35 Republicans. That means that the Democrats could do anything they wanted to in the Senate because they possessed such a large majority. Consider that the House of Representatives was also overwhelmingly Democratic and almost veto proof with 263

Democrats compared to 174 Republicans. John F. Kennedy was President and Lyndon B. Johnson Vice President. Democrats ruled our government!

House Has Power To Impeach Judges!

The Constitution grants the sole power of impeachment to the House of Representatives. It grants the sole power for trials of impeachment to the Senate. Had the Democrats exerted their power of impeaching the Supreme Court judges that “legislated” a ban on school prayer, they would have had

their way. They didn’t even raise a stink about it! Why? The Democratic Congress had it within their power to pass an amendment to the Constitution and pass it on to the States that proclaimed such an innocuous prayer for the general well being of the “students, parents, teachers and country” — was

exactly what our Founding Fathers did approve. But, they took no action against the Court or to clear up the misunderstanding about our Constitution that the Court clearly had. Make no mistake about it; Democrats had a lock on the government reigns of power. Instead of being concerned about God,

the Democratic Party had entered Kennedy’s Era of the “Rights of Man.”

Kennedy’s Era Of “Rights of Man!”

In John Kennedy’s acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination,

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“I am grateful, too — I am grateful, too that you have provided us with such a strong platform to stand on and run on. Pledges, which are

made so eloquently, are made to be kept. ‘The Rights of Man’ — the civil and economic rights essential to the human dignity of all men — are indeed our goal and are indeed our first principle. This is a Platform on which I can run with enthusiasm and with conviction.”