Since his focus seems to be on slavery, wouldn't an intelligent man say that it WAS a flawed document, but we eventually fixed it?
Also, the tired old three-fifths things was a moral attempt to minimize political power from slave-holding states. It was a good thing. It was an attempt to move in a direction that might "fix" the "flawed document".
Last point: If you swear an oath to uphold the Constitution, you need to STFU about your opinions about flawed it is, or was, or whatever. It is what it is -- right, wrong, or indifferent, you uphold it as it is without grousing about how "flawed" it is.
Sheesh!
A “living constitution” for a dying nation.
As long as the 14th, 16th and 17th Amendments remain in the Constitution, it is a flawed document.
Whatever our faults as a nation....America does not deserve this plague of scumbags. Disgusting.
“At the time the Constitution was written, the economy of the southern states was totally reliant on slave labor.”
Exactly. How would Kennedy propose that the people in the South get their work done and make money without that slave labor?
Seems to me that Anthony Kennedy is a flawed justice.
Couldn’t possibly be that Tony is “flawed.”
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And arrogant elitist like kennedy, ginsberg and breyer think the murder of over 55 million innocent babies should have been in the constitution, so they act like the dictators that obama thinks he is and write mans evil laws into it.
One day, not to far off, these people and others like them with cold , cruel hearts will stand before God and answer to Him.
All Kennedys are flawed.
Well I guess so since no one obeys the law. What does a little thing like a constitution matter. we are ruled by criminals.
The Constitution isn’t flawed because it clearly provides procedures to amend it. But because it’s difficult to amend the constitution, the perpetual know-it-alls who think they know how everyone should live want to be able to change things easily on their personal whim.
And the slavery example is ridiculous because slavery is an example of how the Constitution was properly amended as provided by the founders, and slavery was abolished in the 13th Amendment.
basically reaffirmed the legality of slavery
What an idiot. The South was punished by those who wrote the Constitution. Since it wanted slaves they couldn’t benefit politically from slavery in their representation in Congress.
I didn’t go to some Ivy League expensive college to know this.
That's nonsense. Most of us southerners have ancestors who did their own farm work. Only a small perecentage of southerners owned slaves. A complaint of small farmers was that they literally had to "compete against slave labor."
It's true the south would not have joined the US without legal slavery, but the reasons were not that it was "totally reliant on slave labor". Probably just the big money interests and their backers were near totally reliant.
There is a process for amending it.
[ But he couldn’t resist taking a swipe at the Constitution, noting, “The Constitution of the United States is a flawed document,” its “thinly veiled language… basically reaffirmed the legality of slavery.” Kennedy was referencing the section of the Constitution in which each slave was defined as three-fifths of a person in the estimation of how many congressional delegates each state was allotted. ]
We should have counted them as a WHOLE person and just handed the House of Reps over to the south....
I am sure there would have been slaves sent into the house to represent the slave populations of the frickin south....
Freeking Moron...
http://www.marklevinshow.com/common/page.php?pt=podcasts&id=191&is_corp=0
7/25/14 listen to mark levin tearing down this damned fool!
It’s incredible the number of justices Republicans have gotten wrong. The Dems never miss on their SCOTUS nominees. Ever.
So it that POTUS NBC requirement, huh.
Other than the Constitution being badly neglected, given the states can amend the Constitution at their pleasure, I don’t see any significant problems with the Constitution other than it is not being taught as the Founding States had intented for it to be understood.
That’s why it includes an amendment process.....
Kennedy is a senile old bastard, IMHO. What the hell would he know about the Constitution?