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These amendments this Bill of Rights said we could speak our minds, worship freely, defend ourselves, be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures, and expect to be treated fairly if accused of a crime.

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In contrast to almost all of the legislation Congress passes today, the Bill of Rights is full of language such as Congress shall make no law and The right of the people shall not be violated, along with a guarantee that non-delegated powers or those not specifically denied the states are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

With this document, the Founders drew a line in the sand a few inches from the governments feet.

Not all of these 225 years have been kind to the Bill of Rights, though. Its been challenged, debated, and far too often just ignored.

Dont be fooled into thinking this would have surprised the Founders.

We have the Bill of Rights precisely because the Founding Fathers knew government cant resist stretching its limits. Much like Benjamin Franklins reported statement that we had a Republic if we could keep it, the Bill of Rights relies on the people holding government accountable.

When some in government say of course we can, you and I are supposed to use the Bill of Rights to say, No, you cant.

Some believe government has grown too large to hold down with these chains, that its too late to rein it back in. If the Bill of Rights were mere words on paper, perhaps we could afford to indulge that feeling.

But they are not mere words. They are principles fundamental to who we are as a people and what we represent as a nation. If we stop caring enough to preserve them, we will lose more than a few liberties.

We will become something else entirely.

Thats one reason we must defend the entire Bill of Rights. If you expect to be able to speak freely, then surveillance that shreds the Fourth Amendment stops just being the other guys problem.

If you let the government decide the Second Amendment doesnt mean what it says, then why should it hold to a strict definition of due process or freedom of the press?

We dont have the luxury of playing favorites. We have the responsibility of getting it right.

In a time where so many are divided, this provides us with a clear path forward. We can unite on a Constitution that binds us together by the same standard, and we can demand all politicians stay within those rules to best benefit us all.

If that document needs to be changed, as the Founders expected it would, lets follow their example by properly amending it, as they did with the ten amendments we celebrate today.

Theres no better time than the present to drop the status quo and adopt this new approach.

I am excited for the upcoming opportunities we will have to institute long-overdue reforms, roll back an overzealous and misguided bureaucracy, and return to a government that works for the people instead of the special interests.

On this 225thanniversary, let us rededicate ourselves to the principles and boundaries found in the Bill of Rights, and let us recommit to passing them on honored and intact.

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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul gave an indication today of the trouble that President-elect Trump may face from his own party in trying to fulfill campaign promises that cost money.

The former GOP presidential candidate said on ABC News' "This Week" that he "won't vote for a budget that never balances" and that he is working to find a few other conservative GOP senators to join him.

"The current budget that the Republicans are looking at never balances. How can that be fiscally responsible? And how can we look at the public with a straight face and say, yes, we ran on balanced budgets, we're for the balanced budget amendment, and yet the budget we're going to introduce, that we're going to repeal Obamacare with never balances?" Paul said.

Trump this week repeated his promise that he wants a trillion-dollar infrastructure program and he promised during the campaign to repeal Obamacare.

Paul said that with the help of other conservative senators he might be able to block a budget that he considers irresponsible.

"All it takes is a couple of us. If there are a few conservatives in the Senate wing of the Republican Party that will say no to a budget that never balances, we could have the power to say to the leadership, you know what, we need a better budget," Paul said.

"I don't know if it will happen, but I know that I will be one that won't vote for a budget that never balances," he said.

Paul also addressed reports that ExxonMobile CEO Rex Tillerson has emerged as a likely pick for secretary of state, saying that he is "going to reserve judgment on Tillerson."

But the Kentucky senator had strong warnings about former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton, who is a possible contender for secretary of state or deputy secretary of state.

"I'll do anything to try to prevent John Bolton from getting any position because I think his world view is naive," Paul said. "He still believes in regime change. He's still a big cheerleader for the Iraq War. He's promoted a nuclear attack by Israel on Iran. He wants to do regime change in Iran."

"John Bolton doesn't get it," Paul said.

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With just six weeks until Inauguration Day, George Stephanopoulos goes one-on-one with President-elect Donald Trumps incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus, Sunday on This Week.

Then, Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY, and Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-MO, weigh in on how the Senate will work with the new Trump administration.

Plus, former Obama chief ethics lawyer Norman Eisen and former George W. Bush chief ethics lawyer Richard Painter discuss their call for Trump to cut ties with his business interests before entering the White House.

And the Powerhouse Roundtable debates the week in politics, with Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, Republican strategist and former Trump campaign senior adviser Sarah Huckabee, National Review editor Rich Lowry, and Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons.

See the whole political picture, Sunday on This Week.

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Sen. Rand Paul has publicly voiced his disapproval of John Bolton as a potential member of Donald Trumps administration, and on Sunday said he would aim to block the nomination if Trump did give him a position.

"John Bolton doesn't get it," Paul said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

"He still believes in regime change. He's still a big cheerleader for the Iraq War. John Bolton is so far out of it and has such a naive understanding of the world."

Bolton, who served as interim U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, is being considered for the No. 2 spot at the State Department. He's not a popular pick on either side of the aisle and, his views have been described as "hawkish and at odds with Trump's campaign pitch for less military engagement in the world."

Bolton has called for a regime change in Iran as a long-term solution to help eliminate threats in the Middle East and has argued that the U.S. should step up its level of engagement with Taiwan.

"The president of the United States [will] talk to whomever he wants if he thinks it's in the interest of the United States, and nobody in Beijing gets to dictate who we talk to," Bolton said shortly after Trump's highly contested call to Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen.

He also still supports the decision to invade Iraq.

Paul says "no man is more out of touch with the situation in the Middle East or more dangerous to our national security than Bolton."

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You know, I think theyre so openly partisan that I cant even hardly turn on CNN in the morning, that theyre going on and on about potential conflicts of interest, Paul said. Not that theyve saidthis is a conflict of interest. They just go on and on and on, so its clearly a partisan network, and theres no news.

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During the campaign cycle, they must have spent hours of media time talking about how, No, Donald Trump really wasnt against the Iraq War because he nodded his head one time during an interview with Howard Stern on a question with the Iraq War, Paul recalled. What they missed by doing that, by being so partisan, what they miss is, there really was a substantive difference between Trump and Clinton on the Iraq War, regime change, and nation-building.

He noted that Trump has reiterated, as recently as in the last week or two that we dont have enough money to build nations overseas; we need to rebuild our country.

Hes talked about infrastructure here, and this is a profound difference between him and Clinton because you know Clinton kept talking about how she was still for regime change in Syria, getting rid of Assad. She was for regime change in Libya, and Trump was opposed to that, but the media because theyre so partisan never, ever got to that substantial point because they were too busy trying to point out, Oh, we got Donald Trump because he did say at one time he was for the war. When in reality, what made the most difference was that he learned the lesson that the Iraq War was a mistake, Paul said.

He said that Trump won on a different kind of message and hoped Trump would fill his administration with people who are consistent with the kind of message he ran on. He cited Betsy DeVos as a good pick for secretary of education, and Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) as a good choice for Health and Human Services secretary.

Paul said one of Trumps first tasks should be repealing the job-killing regulations put forward by President Obama, which are chasing American companies overseas.

Id like to see us repeal a hundred regulations in a hundred days, if we could, he said. Some of these things can be done by executive order because President Obama put them all in place by executive order. So as much as Im not a fan of a big, powerful presidency, I am a fan of the presidency undoing the power grabs that the previous president did, and I think they will. All the signs weve been hearing is that hes going to be bold and decisive, and that he will get rid of these job-killing regulations.

Paul stressed that lower taxes and less regulations would be key to making America a competitive business environment and preventing companies from moving jobs overseas.

The Senator was humorously frank when Boyle invited him to offer some party-rebuilding advice for the Democrats: You know, being a partisan, I hope they keep doing what theyre doing because it certainly isnt working.

They keep re-choosing leaders from decades ago, he noted. Nancy Pelosis been in charge for decades now. Shes been part of the extreme liberal wing of the Democrat Party that is really the wealthy elite. These people are disconnected from the working class. They probably dont know anybody thats ever gotten their hands dirty. If they keep appointing and having their leadership be the wealthy elite, I think their disconnect with the American people will only grow, and hopefully those of us who want more freedom to go back to the individual and to the states, I think well keep winning as long as they keep the old elite guard in place.

Paul said the Republican Party has taken the lead because it has connected the working class to the small businessperson, to those who are American business versus people who leave us and go overseas.

Ive always said that thats when we become the dominant party, and thats when we connect the worker to the boss, and say, you know what, were not going to have a shrinking American pie. Were not going to have a smaller economy where you have to grab yours before somebody else grabs their share. What we want is an expanding American pie, where workers and business owners and everyone is enjoying a bigger slice of the pie because the economy is growing, he said.

I think we can grow like crazy, Paul predicted. Weve been limping along under the Obama economy at like maybe 1 percentgrowth, if were lucky. If we really do cut taxes, if we cut the corporate income tax and cut the regulatory burden, this economy is ready to really grow and create millions of jobs. So I think youll see not only a transformation of the political landscape, but I think were poised to see a transformation of our economy, where we could really be a vibrant nation that leads the world in job creation.

He advised his fellow Republicans to be on guard against the giddiness that can come when a single party controls the White House and both houses of Congress, and to remember what the party stands for.

We are a party that not only believes in lower taxes and less regulation; were a party that believes, and says we believe, in balancing the budget, he noted. No matter who proposes it, Ill continue to be an advocate for balancing the budget. Ill continue to be somebody and I may be alone in this but I wont vote for budgets that never balance. Were going to have a fight early on in January. People want to repeal Obamacare, and so do I, but I want to repeal it passing a budget that actually is a fiscally conservative budget that balances. Right now, the tussle in the Senate is, people want to pass any old budget, whether it ever balances or not, whether its fiscally conservative or not. They just want to get it done because theyre going to then use that to repeal Obamacare.

Im a physician. I hate Obamacare. I want to do anything we can to get rid of it. But at the same time, Im not willing to vote for a budget, even if its a Republican budget, that never balances and is not fiscally conservative, Paul declared.

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