...socialized medicine, allowing abortion under some circumstances, voiding sodomy laws, re-defining the institution of marriage, loosening the old "pornography" laws, or eliminating the death penalty.
As long as these measures - none of which is contemplated in the Constitution - are done legitimately by the action of the Congress and/or 2/3 of the state legislatures, according to the U.S. Constitution.
But Congress is prohibited from creating a federal health care system by Article I and the Tenth Amendment; the Constitution does not define a "person" for Constitutional purposes; there is no "Constitutional" right of privacy, on which the made-up right to bugger your buddy or marry someone of the same gender is based; the First Amendment has nothing to do with pornography (it deals with one's right to criticize the government without being punished for it), and; the death penalty is clearly Constitutional, called out specifically in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
What bothers me about the current state of "Constitutional law," and Progressive "Constitutional scholarship," is that it IGNORES the Constitution, or RE-WRITES the Constitution, or MAKES PROVISIONS UP in the Constitution, with total disregard of the Constitution itself and its clear provisions for making amendments (Article 5).
It is my personal and very strong belief that the reason why "Progressives" ignore the requirements for changing the Constitution is because their agenda could NEVER be implemented democratically; it MUST be implemented by subversive Federal judges and justices.
They want to (and have, for the most part) eliminate the death penalty, while the majority of Americans still support it as an ultimate penalty for our worst offenders. So they have seen to it through abusing the court system that it is almost impossible to execute someone. They want an unfettered "Constitutional right" to get or perform an abortion, but know that they could never pass an Amendment defining where human life begins because their position is the clear minority position in this country (and becoming less and less popular as time goes on). Ultimately, the would like to eliminate the Tenth Amendment (and remove all constraints on what Congress can do), but know that the people and the state legislatures would never go along with it.
So they continue to bend, fold, and mutilate the Constitution, pretending all the while to be adhering to it, and using bullshit catchphrases like, "living document" to justify their subversion.
It's an ugly bit of business.
As long as these measures - none of which is contemplated in the Constitution - are done legitimately by the action of the Congress and/or 2/3 of the state legislatures, according to the U.S. Constitution.
But Congress is prohibited from creating a federal health care system by Article I and the Tenth Amendment; the Constitution does not define a "person" for Constitutional purposes; there is no "Constitutional" right of privacy, on which the made-up right to bugger your buddy or marry someone of the same gender is based; the First Amendment has nothing to do with pornography (it deals with one's right to criticize the government without being punished for it), and; the death penalty is clearly Constitutional, called out specifically in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
What bothers me about the current state of "Constitutional law," and Progressive "Constitutional scholarship," is that it IGNORES the Constitution, or RE-WRITES the Constitution, or MAKES PROVISIONS UP in the Constitution, with total disregard of the Constitution itself and its clear provisions for making amendments (Article 5).
It is my personal and very strong belief that the reason why "Progressives" ignore the requirements for changing the Constitution is because their agenda could NEVER be implemented democratically; it MUST be implemented by subversive Federal judges and justices.
They want to (and have, for the most part) eliminate the death penalty, while the majority of Americans still support it as an ultimate penalty for our worst offenders. So they have seen to it through abusing the court system that it is almost impossible to execute someone. They want an unfettered "Constitutional right" to get or perform an abortion, but know that they could never pass an Amendment defining where human life begins because their position is the clear minority position in this country (and becoming less and less popular as time goes on). Ultimately, the would like to eliminate the Tenth Amendment (and remove all constraints on what Congress can do), but know that the people and the state legislatures would never go along with it.
So they continue to bend, fold, and mutilate the Constitution, pretending all the while to be adhering to it, and using bullshit catchphrases like, "living document" to justify their subversion.
It's an ugly bit of business.
