Tag Archives: Rule of Law

Echo Chambered

Posted on August 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Echo Chamberedby Michael DoyleI’ve tried to fit inBut here we are againSo many interested in the echoChambered and not the ebb and flowTo me, I find a lot to think onAs I watch life’s tides flowToo little time for arguing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged A Lot to Think On, Antique, Argue, Conspiracy, Constitution, Doesn't Really Matter, Easy To Shoot, Ebb and Flow, Echo, Enemy, Except For Your Way, Here We Are Again, Interest, Life's Tides, Long As the Target Isn't You, Mystery, Open Ended, Picking Targets, Poetry and Poems, Questioning, Remind, Revolution, Rule of Law, Shatters, Society, Too Little Time, Tried To Fit In, Wide Open, Without Depth, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Laws, and Not the Caprice Or Whim of Those In Government, Ought To Restrict the Actions of the Government. The Primacy of the Rule of Law Is Clear Throughout the Declaration…”

Posted on March 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“(T)he laws, and not the caprice or whim of those in government, ought to restrict the actions of the government. The primacy of the rule of law is clear throughout the Declaration, but the first grievance gives us a clear articulation … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Actions, Assumed Trait, Clear, Clear Articulation, Declaration, Dr. Kyle Scott, Essential, First Grievance, Government, Law, Legitimate Government, Not Caprice Or Whim, Primacy, Restrict, Rule of Law, Separation of Powers, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

For Bill of Rights Day

Posted on December 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

For Bill of Rights Dayby Michael DoyleTo embark on teaching history of the pastEngages us with the things that lastThe best way of doing this of courseIs to teach things right from the sourceBefore going further, let me just sayHappy … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Assert, Assertion, Beacon, Bill of Rights Day, Candid, Civic, Civic Virtue, Civil, Dark Night, Debate, Design, Education, Engage, Enlighten, Faith and Family, Fundamental, Great Nation, History, Ignorance, Join Together, Last, Lessons, Liberty, Light, Limited Government, Marvel, Mystery, Participation, Photograph, Pillars, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Polite, Public Square, Reason, Rule of Law, Say and Do, Source, Stand, Teach, Treason, Truth and Light, Tyranny, Viewpoints, World | Leave a comment

The Death Head of Night

Posted on November 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The Death Head of Nightby Michael DoyleThere in the darkest of the 20th CenturyWere pages to learn from in our historySuch evil as was darker than the nightWhere our traditions still bring us lightNo matter what the king tells usTruth … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 20th Century, Ability, Accident, Accusation, Adolph, All But Lost, All Peoples, Americans, Ancient Peoples, Apart, April Tenth, Arrive, Atmosphere, Atrocity, Auschwitz, Babies, Barren Fields, Believe, Betray, Bluffing, Buchenwald, Burn, Caged Ghetto, Captivity, Cattle Cars, Cleft, Communication, Cost, Crushed, Cry, Cup, Darkest, Daughters, Death Became the Mercy, Death Head, Deeds, Dehumanized, Demonized, Deportation, Desperation, Destination, Determination, Devil's Symphony, Doubt, Dread, Dying, Elders, Eternal, Eternity, Evil, Extermination, Face, Faith, Father, Fear, Few, Flames, Flick, Forced March, Forgotten, Germany, Ghost Train, God, God Be Willing, Going On, Goodness, Grapple, Graves, Grief, Grim Determination, Guide For the Perplexed, Hand, Happenstance, Haste, Hatred, History, Hitler, Hold On Tight, Hope, Huddle, Hunger, Incessant, Infernal, Jewish History, Kabbalah, King, Know, Learn, Left, Let This Be A Lesson, Light, Line, Literature, Live or Die, Living Skeletons, Loved, Madmen, Marginalized, Mengele, Mercilessly, Miracle, Mirror, Misery, Monsters, Mystic Union, Names, Necessary Lie, Night, No Coming Back, No End, Nothing, Optimism, Pages, Peace Alone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Pray, Prophets, Prove Forgiving, Provident, Purpose, Question, Rage, Recall, Receptivity, Robbery, Rogues, Rule of Law, S;piritual, Sacred Ritual, Sake, Scarlet, Seek, Shame, Shed, Shrieking, Sighing, Slight, Slip, Snow, Sons, Soul, Spark, Suffering, Suffocating, Sunken Eyes, Survival, Survived, Surviving, Targets, Taste, Terror, Test, The End, The Jewish, The Jewish People, Track, Tradition, Transition, Transmission, Treasures, Truth, Ugliness, Unity, Water, Weisel, West, Whenever, Wherever, Wine, Wisdom, World, Worse, Worship, Yiddish | Leave a comment

Together We Will Stand

Posted on September 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Together We Will Standby Michael DoyleThere is now in this time of historyA grain going against the orthodoxyThat states that the power rests in populismDespite the modern move against nationalismToday, a certain set wishes our knees to bowAs if to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Best Days, Biblical, Bow, Bows, Broken Dreams, Business of Our Nation, Capacity, Carry On, Champion, City on the Hill, Conservative Court, Constitution, Country, Course, Courts, Critical, Crucial, Cut, Darkness, Deep State, Deluge, Democracy, Determine, Devotion, Display, Disservice, Each Day, Elit, Empowerment, Encroachment, Fail, Family Tree, Fight For, Force, Founders, Founding Principle, God and Family, God's Wisdom, Good, Government, Guiding Light, Harshness, Hesitation, History, Honor, Hope, Keep Freedom, Kept Liberty, Knees, Land of the Brave and Free, Legacy, Liberty, Limbs, Lost, Midstream, Mobocracy, Modern, Nationalism, Need, Offer, Orthodoxy, Our Land, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Populism, Power, Pray, Pretend, Principle, Question, Reason, Regulation, Republic, Rule of Law, Safe, Sense, Sheet-Anchor, Shines, Shoulder to Shoulder, Stand, Stand Strong, Stand Together, Stay, Staying Strong, Struggle, Symbol, The People, This Fight, Throngs, Together, Treasured Country, Turning Point, Understand, Unique, Values, Victory, Wonder Aloud, World | Leave a comment

Covid and the Constitution

Posted on September 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Covid and the Constitutionby Michael DoyleVoices arrayed together against an institutionOut of control of the reining in by the ConstitutionChecks and balances swept away along with our rightsStill, we ride forward like beleaguered knightsStay at home orders meant for communicable … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 14th Amendment, Abeyance, Abuse of Authority, Adversity, Aghast, America, Array, Ask, Beautiful, Beleaguered Knights, Best Practices, Blight, Bureaucrats, Case, Casinos, Chains, Checks and Balances, Churches, Closed Down, Constitution, Contrarian, Conversation, Cost of Silence, Course, Covid, Crown, Current Crisis, Death or Liberty, Decision, Deliberation, Desperate Situation, Dictate, Draconian Regulation, Economy, Effective, Embrace, Emergency Police Powers, Enforcement Issues, Executive Branch, Executive Dictate, Exercise, Face, Fail, Federal, Feduce, Force, Forgiving, Fray, Free, Freedom, Freedoms, Functionalism, Good Citizens, Governance, Government, Great, Health, History, Hour, Institution, Interpretation, Irritation, Jeopardy, Laboring Oar, Legal, Legislation, Legislature, Libertarian, Liberty, Limitation, Lives Lived, Looking Out, Loss of Our Liberty, Lost Liberty, Machination, Make A Living, Mankind, Mask, Money, Nation, Natural Law, Nature, New Normal, Noble, Open, Others Will Take, Out of Control, Overbearing, Partisan Warfare, Peaceful Assembly, Permanent Emergency, Perspective, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Political Landscape, Pretending, Price, Protected Right, Pushback, Question, Quiet, Rationalism, Recall, Rein In, Restrain, Right, Rights, Rigor, Rule of Law, Safety, Samuel Adams, Sealed Fate, Security, Seize, Separation of Powers, Soul of Our Nation, States, Stay At Home Orders, Steps, Strangle, Stripping Away, Strong Enough, Surrender, Suspension, Swept Away, Technocrats, The Courts, The People, Today, True Representation, Ugly, Unending, Unfair, Urgency, Virtue Signaling, Virus, Vocal, Voices, We The People, Welfare, Withstand, Worse | Leave a comment

Choice To Be Made

Posted on June 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

What it really all comes down to, I think, anyhow… Choice To Be Made by Michael Doyle What this all comes down to For the likes of me and you Is if we’ll let our nation live in fear Or, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, Brutality, Choice, Christian Nation, Comes Down, Destiny, Determine, Dignity, Equal Justice, Equally Loved, Fear, Founded, God, God's Love, God's Side, Goodness, Hope, Hopelessness, Innocent Lives, Known, Legacy, Made, Mankind, Me and You, Mercy, Nation, Odd, Persevere, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Recall, Righteous Nation, Rule of Law, Shaken, Share, Shown, Side By Side, Taken, The Least, Together, Walk, Walk Together, Well Off | Leave a comment

Guarding Against Faction

Posted on May 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Today’s poem about American history speaks on some basic principles as set out in largely in Federalist Paper Number 10 in which we choose to become a republic and not a democracy to protection of nation from the encroachment of … Continue reading →

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Consent of the Governed

Posted on May 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Continuing in a series of poems about the establishment of our republican form of government and life under the rule of law as set out in our constitution: Consent of the Governed by Michael Doyle The standards are set by … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abject, Ambition, American, Anarchy, Attention, Avoid, Balance of Power, Checks and Balances, Classics, Component, Consent, Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Defeat, Deficiencies, Democracy, Detection, Discern, Distribution, Examine, Executive, Extremes, Freedom, Gather, Governed, Government, History, Hour, Human Beings, Imperfection, Improvement, Improvements, Independent Judiciary, Inhibition, Invitation, Just Government, Know, Last, Learn, Legendary, Legislative Representation, Lesson, Liberty, Lose, Mankind, Means, Nation, Nothing New, Old, Order, Past, Permanent, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Political, Power, Powerful, Publius, Representation, Republican, Republican Government, Rights, Rule of Law, Science of Government, Seat, Self Government, Series, Slavery, Society, Standards, Subject, Table, Tension, The People, Told, Transcendence, Truth, Tyranny, Unalienable, Unchecked Power, Vacillation, Vote, Work | Leave a comment

Commit Freedom To Memory

Posted on December 16, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Yesterday, December 15, 2019, was Bill of Rights Day! I was semi-astonished when I didn’t find anyone making reference to this. I was busily recovering from a long walk without a coat taken on Saturday. By the way, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged American, Bill of Rights Day, Birth Right, Breath, Confluence, December 15 1791, Die, Distinction, Extinction, Flag, Flickr, Freedom, Fundamental, God, Government, Guarantee, History, Hour, Influence, Light, Limit, Lord, Memory, Natural Law, Overseer, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Principles, Rule of Law, Rules, Sentiment, Steeple, The People, Truth, World, Worth | Leave a comment