Marine 1
Your an anarchist, eh?
With freedom comes responsibility.
Over 75% of the population in the US do not know what the word responsibility means.
As is proven by the MSMs today.
I agree there are laws that need to away, but there are laws that prevent anarchy from running amoke in this country as well, and those men and women are there to protect those laws.
Can't wait for you to come up to your first red light at an intersection and you think you have the right of way.
And population was like 300 in a city, not 3,000,000.
The term constable is an old one in the United States, having been brought over to the colonies as part of British common law. The office of the constable in Vermont is of constitutional origin, appearing for the first time in section 17 of the Constitution of 1777 which required the freemen of each town to deliver their votes to the constable “who shall seal them up, and write on them, votes for the Governor, and to deliver them to the representative chosen to attend the General Assembly.”
As early as 1792, references appeared to the office of first constable, such as the reference in an early court case to a warrant from the State Treasurer “to the first constable of South Hero to collect a halfpenny on each acre of land.” The use of the term was established enough by 1796 that a report from the Treasury Department to Congress on Direct Taxes included a representation that, in Vermont, “the first constables are collectors of taxes, and are chosen by the inhabitants of the respective towns, which are responsible for their conduct.”
Your history appears to be a bit hazzy, anon.
But what’s really fun is finding out what else Vermont’s early constable was supposed to do. In 1779, the Vermont Legislature passed a law setting out just what was expected, and it provided that “one constable in each respective town in this state, shall be chosen to levy and gather the state’s tax in such town.” But that was just the beginning.
The duties of the constables set out in the statute were many. They were expected to serve and execute writs, and to head out and organize pursuits or hue-and-cries after “murderers, peace breakers, thieves, robbers, burglars, and any other capital offenders.”
But they were also to apprehend “such as are overtaken with drink — guilty of profane swearing, Sabbath-breaking, lying; also vagrant persons, and unseasonable night-walkers.” The statute didn’t suggest what the season for nightwalking might be.
And they were also supposed to make a diligent search, throughout the limits of their town, upon the Lord’s Days, … for such offenders as shall lie tippling in any inn, or house of entertainment, or private house, excessively, or unseasonably; and after such as retail strong drink without license; and also warn all those that frequent public houses, and spend their time there idly, to forbear; and also warn all those that keep such houses, not to suffer any such persons in their houses: and to make due presentment of all breaches of the peace (coming within their knowledge to some authority proper to receive the same, once in every month.
Oh, and as a side note…TAX BEFORE the FED Reserve.